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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Association of the A. V. C., N. Y. C. V. S., and the Veterinary 
Department of New York University. 
A vote of thanks was extended by the new organization to 
Dr. Hanson, for assisting us in founding the new Alumni As¬ 
sociation. 
The meeting adjourned. A. Eichhorn, Secretary , 
I 4 r W. 54th Street, New York City. 
NEWS AND ITEMS. 
A bill, has been introduced in the California legislature 
making the “ doping ” of race horses a felony with a maximum 
punishment of five years in the penitentiary. 
A competent authority estimates that during the past two 
years the British, government has purchased in the United 
States for service in South Africa horses and mules to the value 
of $100,000. 
Among those who took the Civil Service Examination for 
assistant meat inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry at 
New York on February 5 were Drs. Adolph Eichhorn, W. E. 
Johnson, John J. Hayes, Deronde and Gill (not Harry D.). 
A. MitchEEE, D. V. S., 5th Cavalry, U. S. Army, has re¬ 
signed his commission on account of the failure of Congress to 
give rank to the Army Veterinarian, and is now in the transport 
service of the British Government. 
W. E. Johnson, D. V. S., of Brooklyn, N. Y., having been 
ordered by his physician to take a sea voyage, has united busi¬ 
ness with his quest for health by engaging with the British 
government to accompany a transport of American horses from 
New Orleans to South Africa. 
Professor Joseph McFareand, the well-known bacteri¬ 
ologist and pathologist of Philadelphia, has associated himself 
with the manufacturing drug house of Parke, Davis & Co., of 
Detroit, where he will devote himself to purely scientific re¬ 
search in his favorite field. 
At the annual meeting of the Eeague of American Wheel¬ 
men (the national association of bicycle clubs) held last month, 
there were but 46 delegates present, against hundreds in former 
years. The Secretary’s report showed that during the past year 
the receipts from all sources were $27,000, against $75,000 the 
previous year. 
