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drowned while yachting. He was a young man of unusual prom¬ 
ise, having secured several of the second year prizes at Montreal. 
PERSONAL. 
Prof. A. Liautard has been elected Corresponding and Hon¬ 
orary Member of the Society Veterinaire d’Alsace-Lorraine. 
Doctor R. Harrison has been appointed by the President and 
Fellows of Harvard University instructor in anatomy in the vet¬ 
erinary department of that institution, which is to be opened next 
fall. 
Doctor J. F. Winchester, of Lawrence, has been offered the 
permanent position of Professor of Veterinary Medicine at Am¬ 
herst Agricultural College. 
Dr. A. Rose has been appointed quarantine inspector by the 
Treasury Cattle Commission, and his brother, W. Rose, D.V.S., 
is assistant to Dr. Salimon, the veterinarian attached to the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture at Washington. 
NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
Hydrophobia among Cattle. —Several cases of hydrophobia 
are reported among cattle in Mississippi. 
Hydrophobia. —Authentic reports come to us of the existence 
of hydrophobia among dogs in different States. 
Snake Story. —A sick horse at Davenport, Iowa, was given 
medicine that caused a green water-snake six inches long to come 
out of the horse’s stomach .—Prairie Farmer. 
Pink-Eye. —“ Pink-Eye ” prevails among the draft horses of 
Aberdeen, Scotland. The disease has had its run in Glasgow, 
Newcastle, and other towns of the kingdom. 
Good Cow. —R. P.Voung, of Oregon couuty, Mo., has a cow 
that has never been the mother of a calf, and yet she gives two- 
