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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Manufacturing Co., of Hammond, Ill., will be glad to furnish 
those interested with full information. 
Dr. Liautard was elected an honorary member of the New 
York County Veterinary Medical Association at its last meet¬ 
ing, “ in recognition of his long and successful efforts in be¬ 
half of veterinary science in America.” 
The Trotter in Austria. —During the year 1898 there 
was $214,070 distributed among trotters in the three principal 
trotting centres of Austria, of which $123,824 was at Vienna, 
$73,662 at Baden and $6590 at Trieste. 
Dr. Aeexander Plummer, formerly of Walla Walla, 
Washington, who joined the Fourth U. S. Cavalry, and was last 
reported in the Review as being in charge of Government 
animals in Honolulu, H. I., is now in Manila. 
Drs. George H. Berns, of Brooklyn, and W. T. Baker, of 
Buffalo, have been appointed by the Governor to fill the vacan¬ 
cies on the State Board of Veterinary .Medical Examiners 
caused by the resignations of Drs. Hnidekoper and Hinkley. 
Dr. J. W. Petty, of Winston, N. C., Secretary of the North 
Carolina Veterinary Medical Association, was married on Dec. 
22 to Miss Eleanor Booker, of Chapel Hill, N. C., and the Re¬ 
view extends its sincere congratulations to the happy couple. 
Charles S. Atchison, D. V. S., assistant to Dr. George H. 
Berns, of Brooklyn, was recently kicked in the breast while 
performing an operation in the hospital. It first appeared very 
serious, but he is at his post again. The injury consisted in 
the fracture of three ribs at their sternal attachments. 
Dr. Olof Schwarzkopf, of Flushing, N. Y., who needs 
no introduction to the veterinary reader, has been secured to 
conduct ‘‘German Review” for the American Veterinary 
Review, Dr. Bieser having retired from practice on account of 
ill health and accepted a position in the New York post office. 
“Prescription Writing,” by Prof. H. D. Hanson, is in 
course of preparation, but owing to some delinquents who have 
kindly promised “ prescriptions ” for the appendix, but who 
have been slow in sending them, the work has been delaved. 
The author has received about one-half of the required number, 
and hopes to receive the remainder shortly. 
At the joint meeting of the Eouisiana State Agricultural So¬ 
ciety and the Eouisiana Stock Breeders’ Association, at Shreve- 
port, Jan. 25, 26, and 27, a most interesting and valuable pro¬ 
gramme was carried out. Dr. W. H. Dairympie, of Baton 
Rouge, is Secretary, and a leading spirit. Dr. Tait S. Butler 
