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fold, as how can a proper veterinary education, with its necessary 
many branches, be rightly and honestly imparted by one teacher ? 
They are simply side attractions to catch the popular idea and 
dollars from men—if such they could be styled—who want a di¬ 
ploma, irrespective of its value; such men as will ever prove a 
stumbling block to the progress and science of veterinary medi¬ 
cine. 
This subject was brought forward at the meeting of the 
United States Medical Association held at Cincinnati, O., a year 
ago, and referred to a special committee. What have they done 
in the matter? 
W. H. Pendry, D.V.S. 
OBITUARY. 
A. P. WEEKS, D.V.S. 
Arthur Philip Weeks was born in New Orleans, La., in 
1357. He was a son of John P. Weeks, a successful merchant 
of New York city, and grandson of Samuel C. Jollie, a noted 
music publisher of that city. “ Artie,” as his friends always 
called him, was left an orphan at the age of three years, by 
the death of his father from consumption, at Galveston, Texas* 
in 1861. He was brought to Ellenville by his widowed mother’ 
and resided there until his growth to manhood. He was always 
an intelligent, active, well-conducted lad, and gained an excellent 
education in the village schools and the Ulster Seminary. He 
afterward took a full course at the American Veterinary College, 
graduating as D.V.S. in 1880. After a short practice at Ellen¬ 
ville, he located at Poughkeepsie, and was making his mark in 
his profession when a severe hemorrhage of the lungs, said to 
have been the result of over-exertion, prostrated him. He re¬ 
turned to Ellenville, and, after a rest, decided to locate in 
Colorado. He proceeded as far as Kansas City, where his 
medical adviser cautioned him not to proceed to Colorado, 
asserting that the climate was too cold for his weak health. He 
