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chloroform anaesthesia. We should, as veterinarians, ever bear 
. in mind that time-honored adage, “A merciful man is merciful 
to his beast.” 
A remarkable verification of the theory that malarial fever 
was propagated by the bite of certain species of mosquitoes has 
lately come to light. The experimenters, Drs. Sanborn and 
how, have, during the past summer months, lived in one of the 
most malarious districts of the Roman Campagna without con¬ 
tracting malaria. The only precautions taken by these men 
and their servants to escape the disease was the spending of the 
nights in specially constructed houses so entirely protected by 
netting as to entirely exclude the night-flying anophles, or ma¬ 
laria-propagating mosquito. It has been demonstrated by Ross 
that the mosquitoes are not of themselves the sole cause of ma¬ 
laria, but simply act as hosts to the rod-like bacilli which are 
found in the blood of those suffering from malaria. This dis- 
covery of the etiology of malarial fever will no doubt be the 
means of laying bare the secrets surrounding the origin or eti¬ 
ology of many of the miasmatic fevers, such as South African 
horse .sickness, rinderpest in cattle, and yellow fever in man, 
diseases which at the present time render many of the most pro¬ 
ductive regions of the globe uninhabitable to mankind. 
I wish to thank the members of this association who have 
so kindly assisted me in discharging the duties of president of 
this society during the past two years, and I wish also to assure 
them that I shall always look back upon the same with the 
most grateful feelings. 
At the Christmas Examinations of the Ontario Veteri¬ 
nary College the board of examiners awarded diplomas to 
the following gentlemen : Robert K. Bryant, Sunderland; 
Herbert Killips, Tonawanda, N. ¥.; Z. T. McNees, Butler, Pa.; 
Orange Judd Phillips, Warrensburg, Mo.; W. J. R. Ramage, 
Mooresburg Ira B. Rivenburgh, Chatham, N. Y.; Herbert U 
Switzer, Springfield, Mass. Primary examinations anatomy— 
Norman A. Anderson, passed primary in anatomy; Thomas H. 
Monahan, passed primary in anatomy. 
