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this time, he being the author of the movement and the indi¬ 
vidual affected. 
Drs. Salmon and Bell left Detroit early Friday morning and 
missed every train with which they were to connect, finally ar¬ 
riving in Washington in condition for the laundry and hospital. 
Dr. E. B. Ackerman and wife, of Brooklyn, N. Y., returned via 
Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Toronto and Ithaca, where they attended 
the New York State meeting. . 
Dr. M. E. Knowles, of Montana, was early on hand and in¬ 
sistent that the association should come to Helena in 1902, prom¬ 
ising a Yellowstone Park trip, an excursion to Bitter Root 
Stock Farm, and other delightful diversions. . His rendition of 
« Mr. Dooley ” at the banquet was so true a dialect that there is 
danger of losing him to the stage. 
An enterprising disinfectant agent gave to each veterinarian 
what appeared to be a half-pint sample bottle of his drug, en¬ 
closed in a neat box, with a facsimile of his commercial label 
on each bottle. Those who discarded their samples regretted 
their hasty action when they discovered that the fluid was really 
Hancock whiskey, guaranteed by a rear label to be ten ) ears 
old and the best. 
There was only one class of arrangements which did not 
work satisfactorily, and that was the clinics. The members 
were hungry for them, and the committee had worked faith¬ 
fully to have their arrangements perfect, but events conspired 
to defeat their plans. The Review will take up this subject 
and discuss it a little later with the object of having them moie 
perfect another year. ,1111 
When the printer of the menu of the banquet dubbed the 
Hon. E. R. Watkins a “Doctor,” the latter felicitously referred 
to the circumstance by saying : u W hen I was but a young 
man I had the ambition to some day become, the Governor of 
the Wolverine State ; later I even aspired to the Presidency of 
this great nation 5 but never, in my wildest diearns, did I ever 
hope to become a veterinary surgeon. That you have seen fit 
to place upon me that truly distinguished title I accept it as 
the acme of human ambition.” 
In summing up the status of the veterinary colleges of 
America, Chairman Baker, of the Committee 011^ Intelligence 
and Education, failed to include the school at Nasnville, which 
so incensed Dr. G. R. White, of that city, as to cause him to 
rise to his feet repeatedly in defense of his section. He said 
that there were no veterinarians in the faculty and he was not 
