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the veterinarians who saw these cattle, who denied the lesions to 
be those of pleuro-pneutnonia. But what is the connection between 
the Ontario and the Blissville cows, we fail to see: except it is 
to save the opponents to the measures taken by the State govern¬ 
ments. 
Nevertheless, as we cannot bring ourselves to the idea that 
Professor Williams has written the letter knowingly, we feel it 
our professional duty to make room for a report of the post 
mortems made in Long Island, where the State Commissioners 
were present with many invited witnesses, among which were the 
gentlemen who sign the card published in our March number, as 
well as the author of the letter to the Medical Record , but not 
the jpLithologist referred to. 
We now r expect from Prof. Williams an answer to the queries: 
Are the lesions described by Prof. Holcombe characteristics of 
contagious pleuro-pneumonia, and did the animals who presented 
them suffer from that disease ? and, if not, how is it that they so 
thoroughly agree with those which he described in his work on 
Practice ? 
For us the faith and confidence of Prof. Williams have been 
deceived, and we are too glad to give bim an opportunity to 
acknowledge it. 
Veterinary Honors. —Among the graduates of the Bennett 
Medical College, for the degree of M. D., is found the name of 
Mr. N. H. Paaren, the well known veterinarian of Chicago, of the 
editorial staff of the National Live Stock Journal. One more 
M.D. among American veterinarians. 
