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Dr. Wm. Fretenbergh, of New York City, has accepted 
the assistantship to Dr. T. S. Childs, of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., 
for the season of 1900. 
Dr. H. A. Meisner, of Baltimore, has been appointed 
State Veterinarian of Maryland, to succeed Dr. Clement, who 
has held the position for a number of years. 
Dr. H. L. Ramacciotti, of Omaha, Neb., has received the 
appointment of food inspector for that city for a term of three 
years. 
Dr. C. F. Dawson has severed his connection with the 
Bureau of Animal Industry and associated himself with the 
well-known drug house of Parke, Davis & Co., of Detroit. 
The Horseless Age. —Tommy : “ Paw, what is the horse¬ 
less age?” Paw: “Eight years, as horses never get past 
seven.” 
Dr. Hugh Thomson, Shabona, Ill., writes the Review 
that he can direct two qualified veterinarians to good locations 
for practice, and invites correspondence. 
Dr. C. O. Dureee, of Palmyra, N. Y., has recently been 
appointed to the Federal Meat Inspection force at Buffalo, and 
assigned to post-mortem work. 
Dr. T. W. Scott, of Clarksville, Tenn., has accepted an 
appointment as Meat Inspector in the Bureau of Animal Indus¬ 
try and has been assigned to duty at Kansas City. 
Dr. B. P. WENDE, in connection with his govermental 
duties at the N. Y. Central stock yards of Buffalo, lends valu¬ 
able aid to the S. P. C. A. 
Dr. E. A. Robinson, of Buffalo, has found the bee indus¬ 
try to be a most pleasing and profitable pastime and his apiary 
has rapidly grown to considerable dimensions. 
Dr. J. M. Johnson, M. R. C. V. S., of London, England, is 
stationed at Buffalo, and exports to the former city a regular 
weekly consignment of horses. 
Dr. T. A. Bown has found the traffic in horses more pleas¬ 
ing to his taste than that of the practice of medicine. So the 
genial doctor is regularly seen with his consignment of horses 
at the weekly horse sales at Buffalo. 
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23 and 24 of the Review. The longer I take it, the more 
eagerlv I look for it each month. With best wishes for a pros¬ 
perous year.”— E. L. Volgenau , New Haven , Conn . 
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