. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 35S <frij£ gtreefrev mtir *rjnttrt*matt* (.December 3,1898 Prof. Bowhtll aa an Author. All the readers of the Breeder and Spobtsmas will remember Prof. The*. Bowhill, who formerly resided in this city, and whose contributions to the columns of this paper on velerioary matters were during the time not only frequent, tot hiithly instructive to all interested in the breeding or care of lite stock. Prof. Bowhill resigned the professorship of Bacteriology in the Veterinary Department of the Cali- fornia Stale I'niversily to return to his former home in Scotland,
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 35S <frij£ gtreefrev mtir *rjnttrt*matt* (.December 3,1898 Prof. Bowhtll aa an Author. All the readers of the Breeder and Spobtsmas will remember Prof. The*. Bowhill, who formerly resided in this city, and whose contributions to the columns of this paper on velerioary matters were during the time not only frequent, tot hiithly instructive to all interested in the breeding or care of lite stock. Prof. Bowhill resigned the professorship of Bacteriology in the Veterinary Department of the Cali- fornia Stale I'niversily to return to his former home in Scotland, since which time he has completed a work that has ⢠uncled the attention of the scientific world. Through the kindness of Mr. John H. McKerron, of this city, we are enabled to copy the following notice of Dr. Bowhill's work from The North British Agriculturist: Max cal of Bacteriological Techhi cute akd Special Bactebiology. By Thomas Bowhill, F. R. C. V. S., P. K. P. 8 , Edioburgh, late Professor of Bacteriology, Veterinary Department, University of California. With 100 original illustrations. Edioborgb: Oliver i Boyd; London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co.âThis work is remarkable, if not absolutely unique, alike in regard to the mass of information it contains tod the super-excellence of the original illustra- tions with which it is embellished. The author has long made a special study of bacteriological science, and as early as 1891 he proved the identity of the germs of swine fever in the foiled Kingdom with the bacteria of hog cholera in the United Slates of America. He has worked in the. labor- atory of Dr. Gumher, who is incontestably the most eminent bacteriologist of the present day. The illustrations with which the book is embellished are most admirably e: ecnted in cjlotype from photomicrographs executed by the author by means of the Zeiss apparatus, are works of art such as are rarely produced out of Germany. Alike in regard to the letterpress and the illustrat
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