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CORRESPONDENCE. 
ings of every scientific medical society of Philadelphia, and to 
which the medical society of the State of his temporary adop¬ 
tion and parasitic existence invariably comes when it wants 
first-class work. No, I never did, thank God, place this work 
in job printing houses or country press, where scab labor is 
employed, and turn out as representative of a scientific body 
books that would disgrace a patent outside newspaper office, 
and I hope and trust that I may never be charged as a party 
to any such doings. I have only pity for one whose early 
training was so sadly neglected that when he was admitted to 
the association of men with higher ideas that there was noth¬ 
ing upon which could be developed some of the instincts of a 
gentleman. Even after years of friction there has been no 
wearing away of the traits that are looked for in the porcine 
tribe. These traits continue to show as bristles even when he 
is accorded a place among scientific associates, and especially in 
connection with his record of appreciation of the recognition 
accorded him after his name was stricken from the rolls for 
non-payment of initiation fees and dues, and he was numbered 
upon the records of that association only as a contributor to the 
deficit and as responsible, in part, for the loss of nearly fifteen 
hundred dollars in fees and dues that followed the purging of 
the rolls of that body, which had been maintained and sus¬ 
tained by veterinarians who were accorded membership therein 
under conditions similar to those that prevailed at his election. 
I challenge the writer of that article, and summon him be¬ 
fore the Executive Committee of the American Veterinary 
Medical Association, to produce one scintilla of evidence that 
one cent of money of that association was ever improperly used 
by me. I hurl back as an unmitigated and deliberate lie the 
insinuation that one cent of the money of the association was 
ever used in the Journal's Specials to convention cities. 
Within the archives of the association there remains to¬ 
day a detailed daily statement of the receipt and expenditure of 
every cent of money received and disbursed by me during my 
official career, and, wherever it was possible to furnish it, a 
voucher for every dollar, and I demand the production of these 
to substantiate my claim. These accounts were duly audited 
by the auditing committees and transmitted to my successor 
without a question raised or an account disputed. 
I reiterate the charges that an uncalled for haste in the is¬ 
suance of the proceedings forced the omission of one of the 
most important papers, if not the most important, at a time 
