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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Health,” by Dr. Wm. Herbert Howe, Paterson, N. J. 
“The Etiology and Treatment of Spavin,” bv Dr. W. J. 
Martin, Kankakee, Ill. 
u Inoculation against Texas Fever,” by Dr. John W. Con- 
naway, Columbia, Mo. 
“ Snakes, Venoms and Antidotes,” by Dr. E. W. Ranck, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
“ Difficulties found in Enforcing the Eaw requiring Tuber¬ 
culin Test,” Dr. Austin Peters, Boston, Mass. 
u Difficulties in the Way of Municipal Meat Inspection in 
the South,” Dr. C. A. Cary, of Auburn, Ala. 
There will be three sessions of the surgical clinic, of 2 y 2 
hours each, affording ample time for the demonstration of 
numerous operations, including those for relief of roaring, crib¬ 
bing, wry-tail, shoe-boil, lameness, and dental diseases ; anti¬ 
septic ridgling castration, etc. Among those who will take 
part in the clinic are Prof. L. A. Merillat of Chicago, Prof. 
W. E. Williams of Ithaca, Prof W. E. Ea Baw of Boston, Prof. 
John W. Adams of Philadelphia. 
A central location, a beautiful city, a delightful ^climate, a 
generous hospitality, an attractive program, cheap transporta¬ 
tion, and, above all, general professional prosperity conjoin to 
assure us that the Detroit meeting of the American Veterinary 
Medical Association will be the greatest in its history. 
The Alumni Association of the American Veteri¬ 
nary College elected the following officers for 1900-1901 : 
President—R. W. Ellis ; Vice-Presidents—W. H. Eowe, H. D. 
'Hanson; Secretary and Treasurer—F. R. Hanson, 160 El- 
dridge St., New York. The association will be continued as 
of old, but this will not prevent the natural formation of 
another association consisting of any or all alumni of the Vet¬ 
erinary Department of New York University. 
NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Dr. P. D. Bray, of Columbia, Tenn., is in South Africa. 
A Correspondent writes that there is a good opening for 
a veterinary surgeon at Sidney, Ohio. 
Prof. James E. Robertson, of New York, has recently 
been travelling through the West. 
We hear that Prof. M. Stalker has ceased to be the head of 
the Veterinary Department of the Iowa Agricultural College. 
