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A. JJAUTARD. 
6th.—Give any material that you may think of interest to veter¬ 
inarians, in any of their specialties. 
I need not tell you how fully I appreciated the imperfection of 
this circular ; but I felt that if it was well received by those to whom 
it was sent and if it was answered, I could have a fair amount of 
documents to work upon. 
Those one hundred circulars were sent to members of the pro¬ 
fession in the United States and thus spread into twenty-nine 
States of the Union. I am pleased to inform you that I can pre¬ 
sent you with a general sanitary condition of fifteen States whose 
practitioners have done me the honor of an answer. Unfortun¬ 
ately, amongst the fourteen upon which I cannot report are some 
whose condition would have been most interesting to us at tins 
time, when sanitary medicine is receiving such recognition by 
the General Government. Indeed, it would have been important 
to us to know how New Jersey and Maryland were doing with 
their pleuro-pneumonia, how Nebraska, Colorado and Texas were 
doing with anthrax, Texas fever, while information from Michi¬ 
gan, Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana and Maine would have proved 
most interesting. Those States are too wealthy in domestic ani¬ 
mals to avoid interest in their welfare. The various letters which 
I have received have allowed me to ascertain the fact that some 
diseases have been prevailing, more or less, in various States, and 
that in some these affections, whether contagious or not, have 
been so extended that they could almost be considered as regular 
epizootics. The answers were from the following gentlemen: 
J. II. Stickney, O. H. Flagg, J. F. Winchester, W. Bryden,-E. 
F. Thayer, for Massachusetts; B. Mdunes, for South Carolina; P. 
Z. Colsson 'jor Alabama ; J. D. Hopkins, for Wyoming Territory ; 
M. R. Trumbower, C. Crowley, S. V. Ramsay, J. B. Galt, for 
Illinois ; W. Manz, J. C. McKenzie, C. Burden, G. Kidney, W. 
Cutting, for New York; W. Derr, N. S. Townshend,/br Ohio ; 
O. L. Hendershott, for Kansas ; J. Rice, for Connecticut ; W. 
Zuill, N. E. Rlieinhart, J. C. Michener, for Pennsylvania ; C. II. 
Peabody, for Phocle Island; G. Agersborg, for Dakota ; L. H. 
Tourtellotte, E. R. Evans, for Wisconsin; W. E. B. Miller, for 
New Jersey ; G. C. Faville, for Kentucky ; R. McLean, as wo 
came to the meeting. 
