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veterinarian at Terre Haute, Ind., but gave up practice when 
the crash in horses came, and studied human medicine. 
Dr. James Hansen, who has been located at Clounda, 
Iowa, for the past seven years, is a senior student at the Kns- 
worth Medical College, of St. Joseph, Mo. He will engage in 
human practice as soon as graduated. Dr. T. W. Watson 
formerly of Marshaltown, Iowa, succeeds to his practice. 
The Missouri Valley Veterinary Medical ASvSOCia- 
TioN is composed almost exclusively of members of the meat 
inspection service of the Bureau of Animal Industry, and its 
deliberations are confined almost wholly to the subject which 
appeals practically to them. The late meeting was a very pro¬ 
fitable one. 
Alumni Association McGill University.—A call has 
been issued to the graduates of the Faculty of Comparative 
Medicine of McGill University to assemble at the college in 
February for the purpose of reunion and to form an association 
of the alumni practicing in Canada and the United States. 
Those of Massachusetts have long had such an organization. 
Virginia Cattle Quarantine. —The Board of Control of 
the Virginia Kxperiment Station, which regulates the cattle 
quarantine, has decided to establish a union stock yards at 
Richmond, with a branch station at Norfolk, at each of which 
arrangements will be made for dipping cattle in the tick-de¬ 
stroying solution recommended by the Bureau of Animal In¬ 
dustry. Among the members of the Board are mentioned 
veterinarians K. P. Niles and Charles McCulloch, of Blacks¬ 
burg, who are State veterinarians. 
Dr. W. J. Martin, of Kankakee, Ill., was elected President 
of the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association at its De¬ 
cember meeting. Dr. Martin is one of the most energetic and 
public-spirited veterinarians in the country, and the association 
is to be congratulated upon its choice, for in honoring the man 
they have doubly honored themselves, and have secured the ac¬ 
tive services of one whose every aspiration is the good of the 
profession. Already he enters upon his work by appealing to 
the profession of his State to rally for legislative work at the 
present session. 
Government Meat Inspection. —The latest figures on 
Government meat inspection are just submitted in the report of 
Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, for 
the fiscal year. Meat inspection has been in operation at 135 
abattoirs, as against 128 for the previous year, and in thirty-five 
