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Alumni Association A.V.C.—President Robert W. Ellis 
has made the following appointments upon the Executive 
Committee of this association for 1900 : W. Horace Hoskins, 
’81 (chairman); Charles S. Atchison, ’98 ; Harry E. Bates, ’89; 
Charles E. Clayton, ’93 ; Roscoe R. Bell, ’87 ; William J. 
Coates, ’77 ; Theodore A. Keller, ’92. With these active mem¬ 
bers of the association upon the Executive Committee, rein¬ 
forced by the ex-officio members (the present officers) there 
should be sufficient and competent material to keep an interest 
alive among the alumni of the A. V. C. 
NEWS AND ITEMS. 
If Eastern veterinarians find the trip to Detroit impossible, 
compromise by a visit to Ithaca, Sept. 12 and 13. 
“ I am glad that the Review still leads, and may its 
shadow never grow less.” — W. L. West , V.S., Belfast , Me. 
Missouri and Kansas now require the tuberculin test for 
their cattle by qualified veterinarians. 
Our E. C., the Journal\ has a “ Department of Canine and 
Feline Medicine and Surgery,” conducted by Cecil French, 
D.V.S., of Washington, D. C. 
Dr. George H. Berns, of Brooklyn, N. Y., spent the 
greater part of June at Sharon Springs, where he was taking 
baths for the relief of his only enemy—rheumatism. 
Dr. H. E. STEELE, formerly of New York City, is stationed 
at Santiago, Cuba, in charge of all the Quartermasters’ horses 
and mules not assigned to duty, in addition to the hospital. 
H. C. Moore, of the veterinary firm of Moore Bros., Al¬ 
bany, is dead. They were extensive advertisers of veterinary 
remedies. 
Dr. E. M. Heath, of Winsted, Conn., graduate of the Chi¬ 
cago Veterinary College, class of 1897, died May 6, of tubercu¬ 
losis. Deceased was a member of the American and Connecti¬ 
cut Veterinary Medical Associations. 
Prof. James McCall, of Edinburgh, Scotland, is conduct¬ 
ing a series of experiments in the treatment of glanders upon 
twenty-seven horses furnished him by the Glasgow Tramways 
Company. 
A Patent Branding Machine, employing an indelible 
fluid, instead of burning the hide of animals, is said to be a suc¬ 
cess, after extensive experimenting upon Wyoming range ani¬ 
mals. 
