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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
formation that is of great value to a country practitioner.” 
—J. M. O'Reilley, M. D. C, Merrill , IFA. 
Dr. J. H. McNeill, recently of the B. A. I. force at Buffalo, 
N. Y., has been transferred to Ogden, Utah, where he goes to 
do special work in the eradication of scabies in sheep in the 
herds of Northern Utah and Southern Idaho. 
“ I would not be without the Review for twice the amount 
I pay each year. I consider it the best veterinary journal 
printed in the United States.— E. M. Beckley, D.V.S., Meriden^ 
Conn. 
New Board of Examiners for New York. —The 
Regents of the University of the State of New York made the 
following appointments of examiners on June 25 : Drs. George 
H. Berns, F. L. Kilborne, Charles Cowie, John A. Bell, and 
Claude D. Morris. 
Dr. Paul Gibier, director of the New York Pasteur Insti¬ 
tute, died on June 12th. He studied for two years under the 
late Louis Pasteur, and removed to New York about twelve 
years ago, establishing the institute which has achieved consid¬ 
erable reputation throughout the country. 
Pinkeye has been so prevalent in and around Denver, Col., 
that there was talk of abandoning the racing meeting scheduled 
for Overland Park last month. Only a very few horses were 
entered in the races, and the runners were as scarce as the har¬ 
ness performers. Much loss has been sustained by owners of 
horses of all sorts, the disease having resulted fatally in very 
many cases. 
Horses and Values. —Government statistics show that the 
decline in horse values in the United States from 1892 to 1896 
amounted to the appalling sum of $500,000,000. Those who 
thought the bursting of the boom was but a small affair can 
ponder those figures. Since 1896 the increase in horse values 
amounts to over $100,000,000, with a decrease of nearly 2,000,- 
000 in the number of horses. 
Mrs. Harbaugh, widow of the late Dr. W. H. Harbaugh, 
of Richmond, Va., placed a small advertisement in the Review, 
offering for sale the ambulance used by her husband. She 
writes us to stop the advertisement, as she has been simply be¬ 
sieged by letters of inquiry, and saying that Dr. James T. Glen- 
non, of Newark, N. J., had gone down to Richmond and pur¬ 
chased it. Moral: If you wish to reach the veterinarians of 
America, advertise in the Review. . 
Dr. W. Horace Hoskins, of Philadelphia, graduate of the 
