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At the suggestion of Dr. Hoskins the President appointed Drs. Jas. B. Ray- 
ner, Thos. B. Rayner and W. P. Hooker delegates to the United States Veteri¬ 
narian Medical Association, meeting in New York on September 15th, and the 
Secretary was directed to give notice of the same. 
Drs. Glass and Hart were appointed a Committee of Reception and arrange¬ 
ments for the Philadelphia meeting, after which the meeting adjourned. 
W. Horace Hoskins. 
NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
Skilled Veterinarians. —President Willits, in addressing 
the Veterinary Department of the Agricultural College of Michi¬ 
gan, said : “ This is now of prime importance in consequence of 
the large interests engaged in stock raising, and the prevalence 
of communicable diseases among animals. With eighteen States 
at this hour quarantined against the stock of other States in con¬ 
sequence of these diseases, it is important that we should have 
men educated specially in veterinary science; that we have in 
considerable numbers persons skilled in the diseases of domestic 
animals, and that we no longer depend upon the limited acquire¬ 
ments of the old-fashioned ‘ horse doctor.’ The last Legislature, 
with commendable liberality, has afforded the college the means 
to erect a building especially devoted to that science, with a mu¬ 
seum and lecture-room, with operating rooms and dissecting 
tables, with manikins and skeletons and all the apparatus needed 
to illustrate the subject as fully as the best medical colleges illus¬ 
trate the subject of the diseases of the human body. All the 
students in the agricultural course receive instruction in this sci¬ 
ence, and the interest which they have exhibited in the lectures 
fully indicates their appreciation of its importance .”—Prairie 
Farmer. 
Ohio State University Veterinary Chair. —At their last 
meeting the trustees of the Ohio State University decided 
upon the establishment of a Chair of Veterinary Science. The 
salary of the professorship is fixed at $1,000 per year. The 
position is to be tendered to Prof. H. J. Detmers, of Champaign, 
