NEWS AND ITEMS. 
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Dr. John H. McNeall has recently been appointed Assist¬ 
ant Inspector to the B. A. I. and assigned for duty at Buffalo, 
N. Y. 
Mrs. Caroline Becker, of Buffalo, N. Y., announces the 
engagement of her daughter, Emma Nellie, to Dr. Louis Ken¬ 
neth Green. 
Dr. Louis Kenneth Green, of the United States Bureau 
of Animal Industry, has gone to Detroit to take charge of the 
station at that place. 
A. V. Lange, D. V. S., of San Antonio, Texas, has been 
stirring up interest in meat inspection in that city by means of 
letters in the local papers. 
Dr. Thomas Castor, of the B. A. I., was recently trans¬ 
ferred from Indianapolis to Buffalo, N. Y., to take charge of the 
microscopic work at that point. 
Against Docking. —The Royal Agricultural Society of 
England has adopted a resolution forbidding horses with 
docked tails from appearing at its exhibitions. 
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Alexander Cocoran, D. V. S., of Brooklyn, N. Y., died in 
that city in March of tuberculosis. Deceased was a graduate of 
the defunct Columbia Veterinary College, and conducted a shoe¬ 
ing forge in conjunction with his practice. 
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D. D. Keeler, V. S., Salem, Oregon. 
A Veterinarian Commits Suicide. —While temporarily 
insane, Joseph R. Hodgson, Sr., D. V. S., of Brooklyn, N. Y., 
shot himself through the temple in the stables of the American 
Transportation Co., a corporation for which he had been until 
recently veterinarian for a number of years. 
