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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Augusta on the date of the hearing of our Veterinary Bill by 
the Judiciary Committee, which will be February 14, at 2.30 
p. M. 
Voted to adjourn to meet at Augusta in April. 
L F. Salley, D. V. S., Secretary. 
SOCIETY NOTES. 
At the nineteenth regular meeting of the Missouri Valley 
Veterinary Medical Association, held February 27, at Kansas 
City, Mo., the following operations in the surgical clinic were 
to be performed : A new operation for the cure of the cribbing 
habit, peroneal tenotomy for the cure of stringhalt, and cunean 
tenotomy for the cure of spavin. The literary programme was 
as follows: “ Tuberculosis of Swine,” by Dr. James S. Kelly, 
St. Joseph, discussion led by Dr. S. Stewart, Kansas City; 
“Leucaemia,” by Dr. B. B^. Kaupp, Kansas City, discussion led 
by Dr. J. C. Milnes, Kansas City; “ Injuries to the Flexor 
Metatarsi,” by Dr. R. C. Moore, Kansas City ; “ Echinococcus 
Veterinorum,” by Dr. S. Stewart. 
We have received an exhaustive report of the last meeting 
of the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Association, held at 
Columbus, January ii and 12, and as it is very interesting we 
desire to print it in full in one number, which will be done in 
the April Review. 
Read the list of operations performed at the late meeting of 
the Minnesota State Veterinary Medical Association, and ask 
yourself if the example is not a good one to follow in your own 
Association. 
NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Dr. E. L. Volgenau has left Buffalo and taken charge of the 
local branch of the Bureau of Animal Industry at New Haven, 
Conn. 
Dr. Volgenau to Marry. —Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bern¬ 
hardt, of Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y., announce the en¬ 
gagement of their daughter Jessie and Dr. E. L. Volgenau. 
At the annual meeting of the New York State Agricultural 
Society, Veterinarian G. Howard Davison was elected one of the 
Yhce-Presidents, and John T. Claris, V. S., of Buffalo, official 
veterinarian. 
AureL Batonyi, the noted driver, purchased in Chicago 
the second week in February for a wealthy English gentleman,. 
