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most need real scientific aid, and no doubt will bring many new 
and efficient workers into the profession. This also will tend to 
exterminate many ignorant beliefs, such as “ hollow horn,” 
“ wolf in the tail,” and other and greater absurdities. In this 
connection I also note that the lectures on veterinary science at 
agricultural colleges are becoming a compulsory course and where 
it is still an elective study, is being chosen by a large majority of 
the classes. 
The recent investigations into the nature of that most 
horrible form of disease, hydrophobia, by that wonderful inves¬ 
tigator Prof. Pasteur, whose labors in the lines of original 
research have astounded the world, and won for him the most 
sacred homage of any living being, are such that merit our pro- 
foundest gratitude, and it would seem fitting for us here to place 
his name at the top of the honorable of our association, that 
another link, the highest we possess, may be added to the chain of 
glory now encircling his powers, from every nation of the earth. 
In his successful separation of the active agent producing this 
much dreaded affliction, and the cultivation and final detei- 
mination of the same to a point where it by inoculation so 
stamps the tissues of those animals, with a freedom from con¬ 
tracting the same, is a step that makes us feel like bowing our 
heads in profound respect and admiration to the wisdom and 
powers of intellect of this wonderful man. It makes it possible 
that in future years we may be made free from the possibility 
almost of many of these calamitous and awful afflictions. 
The proven identity of the bacilli of human and animal tuber¬ 
culosis, and the positive method now of diagnosing the same, is 
a remarkable revelation, and wins for those deep searchers in these 
heretofore mysteries our profound thanks. One by one these 
ravaging scourges are being well delineated, in their nature, form 
and power, and the already written volumes on the same warrant 
a belief in an early solution of the means of handling and less¬ 
ening their former fatality and direful results. And what with 
these astounding results, and the rapid advances in every other 
line of reasoning intelligence, the present generation of scientists 
are destined to heights of power and lucid reasoning that enst 
in shadow the philosophers and scientists of the dead worlds. 
