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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
“ I CONSIDER THE REVIEW INDISPENSIBRE. Would not be 
without it for double the price.”—A. D. Brown , Hamilton , Mo . 
“No ONE practicing veterinary medicine can afford to be 
without your very valuable journal.”— B. F Minich , Columbia , 
Pa . 
Dr. Geo. W. Buteer, of Circleville, Ohio, has been ap¬ 
pointed Assistant Inspector in the Government Meat Inspection 
Service at Milwaukee. 
Dr. John R. Moheer, Microscopist in the Bureau of Ani¬ 
mal Industry, has been transferred from Milwaukee to the 
Department at Washington. 
Dr. Tait S. ButeER, of Mississippi, has accepted an ap¬ 
pointment in the Bureau of Animal Industry and has been 
assigned to duty at Indianapolis. 
“ I have taken THE Review FOR 16 years and would not 
be without it—all veterinarians will find it a complete library.” 
— H. D. Galbraith , Greensburg , Ind. 
At the Iowa Swine-Breeders meeting, held at Des Moines, 
June 13, Prof. W. B. Niles, of Ames, read a paper entitled 
“ Serum Treatment for the Diseases of Swine.” 
George G. Van Mater, M. D., D. V. S., professor of 
ophthalmology at the A. V. C. and author of u Veterinary 
Ophthalmology,” was married to Miss Gillie V. Blinn, of 
Brooklyn, N. Y., on June 28th. 
The “ bob veae” business is doomed in New York State. 
Governor Roosevelt has put his signature to a bill by which 
dealers in bob veal not only run the risk of having their stuff 
seized, but liable to a fine of from $25 to $100. 
Dr. U. McLean, of Brooklyn, who conducted the Brooklyn 
Veterinary Hospital for many years at 14 Nevins Street, has re¬ 
moved to Carlton Avenue, where he has purchased and enlarged 
the former infirmary of Thomas Robertson, M. R. C. V. S. 
Dr. J. H. McNeae, late resident surgeon of the Veterinary 
Department of the University of Pennsylvania, has received an 
appointment under the Bureau of Animal Industry and has 
been assigned for duty to Buffalo. He is succeeded at the Uni¬ 
versity by Dr. W. W. Martin, of Philadelphia. 
Dr. H. U. Ramacciotti, of Omaha, Neb., has been appointed 
veterinarian to the Greater American Exposition at Omaha for 
1899. He declares that the show will be better than the one 
in 1898, which so many of the members of the A. V. M. A. en¬ 
joyed last fall. 
