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place no reliance upon anything said or done at a convention 
which represents quackery and not the profession. 
We emphatically protest against being placed in this anoma¬ 
lous position by the so-called United States Veterinary Journal. 
We declare the convention to be held in St. Louis, Mo., May 6th, 
1884, under the auspices of said Journal , to be a direct insult to 
the profession at large, and the practitioners of St. Louis in par¬ 
ticular ; we refuse to believe that the proper way to advance the 
interests of the veterinary profession is to form a coalition with 
quackery; we absolutely deny the right of The United States 
Veterinary Journal to put aside the objections of, graduates, and 
advance its private interests at the expense of our young and no¬ 
ble profession. We ask the professional papers to ventilate 
the matter thoroughly; and, finally, we pledge ourselves to un¬ 
flinchingly withstand any infringement of our rights, as is pro¬ 
posed by the commercial clique in question. We are few in num¬ 
ber, our opponents are many; let all thinking members of the 
profession give us their moral support. Vis unita fortior. 
H. H. James, V.S. 
OBITUARY. 
Prof. Dr. Ludwig Franck, Director of the Veterinary 
School of Munich and Honorary Associate of the R. C. V. S., 
died lately at the, age of fifty years. He was one of the foremost 
veterinarians of Germany. His works on veterinary anatomy 
and veterinary obstetrics are the most important among many 
with which he enriched the literature of his profession, which is 
largely indebted to the labors of his pen. 
Edwin M. Fitzgerald, D.V.S, died in Greenpoint, L. I., on 
the 20th of April, 1884. His death was the result of accident 
or culpable negligence, he having been run over by a train of the 
Long Island R. R. He graduated in 1882, at the Columbia 
Veterinary College, and was afterwards appointed assistant to 
the Chair of Theory and Practice. He worked hard for his pro¬ 
fession and did full justice to his calling, and was much esteemed 
as a teacher and as a practitioner. 
