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resentment and bring open charges of fraud against their re¬ 
sponsible heads, and thus force the authorities to close their 
doors ; but we doubt not that the ambitions of those who enter 
such “ seats of learning ” do not rise beyond the acquirement 
of a legal right to impose themselves upon a community through 
the coveted “diploma,” irrespective of all other considerations. 
Their “graduates,” of course, are debarred from practicing in 
any State having competent laws and from all associations of 
veterinary medical men, and it appears that the most effective 
means of dealing with such institutions is for the profession to 
let them severely alone, with the prospect that death from in¬ 
anition will be the next “ announcement.” 
ATLANTIC CITY BIDDING FOR 1901 CONVENTION. 
Through the patriotic energy of Dr. Wm. Herbert Lowe, 
of Paterson, N. J., Atlantic City has entered the field with a 
strong determination to secure the meeting of the American 
Veterinary Medical Association for 1901, as the following letter 
from Gov. Voorhees indicates : 
State of New Jersey, Executive Department, 
Trenton, Oct. 11, 1900. 
Dr. Wm. Herbert Lowe: 
My Dear Doctor :—I have your letter of Sept. 18 in the matter of 
the thirty-eighth annual convention of the American Veterinary Medi¬ 
cal Association, and note its contents. 
As Governor of this State, I do most heartily extend to the above 
association an invitation to make Atlantic City, in this State, the meet¬ 
ing place of its annual convention of 1901 . I do not believe your associa¬ 
tion can find anywhere a place better adapted for its work, and for the 
•care of the representatives who may be present, and I do certainly hope 
your efforts in influencing your association to select Atlantic Cit\ w ill 
meet with success. ^ ery truly yours, 
Foster M. Voorhees. 
Dr. D. E. Salmon presented a paper to the last meeting of 
the American Veterinary Medical Association, entitled “ Rabies 
and Hydrophobia,” in which he answers in most emphatic 
terms, convincing arguments, scientific testimony, and statistical 
