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note your remark regarding Dr. Butterfield’s belief in the 
heredity of cryptorchidy. I enclose a clipping from Country 
Gentleman , contributed by me, in which you ' will note I sup¬ 
port his contention with some data.” 1 
Mr. Carl W. Gay, of the senior class of the New York State 
Veterinary College, has been elected to a Fellowship in Veteri¬ 
nary Science for next year. This fellowship carries a remu¬ 
neration of. $400, the student to take a major and minor subject, 
and is subject to a demand on his time for teaching to the 
amount of four university hours per week. He will also aid 
Prof. Williams in clinical instruction. This college has also 
been granted a Scholarship in Veterinary Science which will 
be open to freshmen in competitive examination. 
Non Nobis Solum. —We know some veterinarians of laro-e 
experience and keen observation wdio delight in detailing ab¬ 
sorbingly interesting cases in private conversation, and we never 
enjoy one of those pleasant hours that we do not relinquish it 
with regret that they stoically refuse to reduce some of such 
valuable experience to Review manuscript, that our readers 
might reap interest and profit therefrom. George H. Berns, of 
Brooklyn, is a good example of this class, and there are hund¬ 
reds, of others all over this country. They simply do not ap¬ 
preciate how grateful the profession at large would be for it, and 
do not heed the legend which heads the Review department of 
“ Reports of Cases.” 
An Addition.to the Operating Table.— The inventive 
brain of Prof. Williams, of the New York State Veterinary 
College, has evolved a device which is best described in his 
own words, as follows: “ I have recently devised an operating 
ambulance for transferring anaesthetized horses and cattle from 
the operating table to the stall or, in good weather, to the lawn. 
While heretofore we have been obliged to wait for 30 minutes 
to two or even more hours before a horse could be taken from 
the table, it is now but the work of a few minutes to o-et the 
patient comfortably located in a box stall or 011 the green lawn, 
and under these conditions the animal recovers more rapidly 
and regains his feet more safely.” 
. Animal Homes in India. —A Calcutta newspaper just re¬ 
ceived, contains an interesting account of the workhouse or 
asylum for aged and infirm beasts and birds, which was estab¬ 
lished some thirteen years ago by a society of influential Hin- 
It is near the Sodepur Station, about ten miles from Cal¬ 
cutta, and is under the control of a manager, with a staff of 
