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recovered; three cases of glanders in mules were discharged; and 
one cow died with tuberculosis. 
Dr. J. B. Galtier, of Illinois, reports six fatal cases of 
anthrax. 
Dr. Spranklin, of Maryland, reports, in the last four months 
of the year 1884, thirty-eight cases of contagious pleuro-pneumo- 
nia and thirty-one cases of hog cholera. He had inoculated 339 
cows against pleuro-pneumonia, a number of which had died 
from the sequelae of the operation. 
Dr. J. Lindsay, of Long Island, N. Y., reports thirty-one 
cases of hog cholera. 
D. J. B. White informs us that in the City of Hew York 
twenty-nine cases of acute pleuro-pneumonia and twenty-eight 
cases of chronic were found by ordinary inspection. There had 
been thirty-six cases of acute and twenty-three of chronic 
pleuro-pneumonia at the slaughter house, and post mortems at the 
offal dock showed twenty-eight cases of acute and eleven of the 
chronic forms of the same disease. Twelve cases of tuberculosis 
were found in the country districts by ordinary inspection, four 
at the slaughter houses and two at the offal docks. 
The Board of Health of the City of New York have re¬ 
ported a large number of cases of glanders. 
Dr. I. E.White, of Missouri, reports two cases of glanders. 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE, 
TENTH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES. 
This decennial anniversary occurred on the 4th instant, and 
was held at the usual place—Chickering Hall. The friends of 
the college began to arrive by half past seven o’clock, and a long 
time before the opening of the exercises the hall was crowded 
to its fullest capacity. 
At eight o’clock, the music of Cappa’s excellent orchestra an¬ 
nounced the opening of the proceedings, and to the beautiful 
strains of the enlevante march of “The Volontaires,” the Board of 
