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CORRESPONDENCE. 
WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE ASSOCIATION OF VETERINARY 
FACUETIES ? 
Flushing, N. Y., Oct. 24, 1899. 
Editors American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sirs :—In your report of the meeting of the American 
Veterinary Association, in your last issue, I fail to see an account 
of the meeting of the Association of Faculties. Has there been 
no meeting ? Secretary Merillat promised 11s that the coming 
meeting would not be held “behind closed doors as in former 
years,” and that the doors would be open to everybody. As I 
have been one of the early members of this association, when 
we made no promise, but have done some work, I was anxious 
to see the progress made by our successors, and I had some¬ 
thing to say, too. But to my inquiries about the place of meet¬ 
ing I received only a significant smile. I am a believer in the 
usefulness of this association, because there are yet problems 
which it has to solve in the future development of our Ameri¬ 
can colleges. In order to accomplish this, it appears that our 
old, experienced members, who are men of ripe judgment, should 
rally in the coming meetings, even if the doors are closed be¬ 
hind them. Myself and others would be pleased to know who 
are the officers of the association for the ensuing year, that we 
might give them encouragement for a very needy cause. 
Yours, etc., Oeof Schwarzkopf. 
to detect tubercde bacieki in excreta. 
Manchester, N. H., October 15, 1899. 
Editors American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sirs : —I have been working on various methods 
whereby I could detect tubercle bacilli in various fluids and 
excreta and have been able to devise a method which is simple 
and does away with the long and tedious methods so much 
used. My methods are as follows : In the case of sputum all 
that is necessary is to shake the sample procured from the 
patient up with an equal bulk of 5 per cent, carbolic acid and 
allow it to stand for a few minutes ; the sedimentation is very 
rapid and one is able if any bacilli are present to always find 
them. The old method was to look for small floculi, but some¬ 
times food in small particles were mistaken for the tubercular 
floculi. In the case of milk an equal quantity of distilled water 
added to the milk, well shake the mixture, allow it to sediment, 
and examine. I have had excellent results with the above 
methods, and trust you will kindly publish the methods in 
