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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Dr. H. D. Gill, of New York, was one of the veterinarians 
of both the Baltimore and Philadelphia horse shows. 
“ The Review grows better with each volume, and I 
wish it continued success.”— E. M. Nighbert , Mt. Sterling , III. 
Dr. Brimhall, field veterinarian to the Minnesota State 
Board of Health, is spending considerable time in the State 
Board of Health bacteriological laboratory. 
Dr. J. E. Ryder’s paper on u Examinations for Soundness,” 
read before the February meeting, of the Veterinary Medical 
Association of New York County, was recently printed in the 
Horse Fancier. 
I REGRET that there are no other veterinary surgeons of any 
qualification on this island whom I could recommend to be¬ 
come subscribers to your excellent Review.— D. Thompson , 
AT. R. C. V. S., San Fernando , Trinidad. 
I TAKE GREAT PLEASURE IN READING THE REVIEW, for its 
pages are full of valuable material which no veterinarian can 
afford to miss. I wish you every success to reward you for your 
noble work.— James M. O' Reilley, AT. D. C, Merrill, Wis. 
Dr. Ralph C. Jenks, of Sing Sing, N. Y., who has for the 
past two years been assistant to Dr. Roscoe R. Bell, of Brook¬ 
lyn, has located for practice at his home, and has been succeeded 
by Dr. Walter Lincoln Bell, McGill, ’97, as assistant to Dr. B. 
If New York State should do as well next September as 
Nebraska did last fall in the matter of attendance upon the 
A. V. M. A. (98 per cent, of her graduates) there will be a 
mighty “Jubilee” in Gotham. And then the populous sea¬ 
board States are yet to be reckoned upon. 
Dr. Wm. Herbert Lowe, Treasurer of the American Vet¬ 
erinary Medical Association, has been highly honorod at his 
home in Paterson, N. J. After serving under the city govern¬ 
ment for ten years, he is unanimously reelected to the office of 
City Veterinarian of Paterson, N. J. Every member of the 
Board of Aldermen (both Republicans and Democrats) voted 
for Dr. Lowe’s reelection. 
The Minnesota Legislature, recently adjourned, has in¬ 
creased the annual appropriation for dealing with infectious 
diseases of animals by $2500. The last legislature gave an in¬ 
crease of $3000. This makes a very helpful sort of a compliment 
for the veterinary department of the Minnesota State Board of 
Health under Dr. Reynolds. 
Is Cryptorchidy Hereditary?— Dr. W. L. Williams, of 
Ithaca, N. Y., writes: “Among ‘Items’ in May Review I 
