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Show HE WILL STUDY ANIMAL DISEASES Oakland, Cal., June 2$. Dr. W. N". Boy n ton, formerly u . student at the University of California, star fullback full-back on the "Varsity football eleven, leaves today on the steamship Siberia Si-beria for the Philippines, where he will remain for two years to make a scientific study of rinderpest and other animal diseases, which, from time immemorial, have decimated cattle in the Islands The study will be made with the hope of discovering a remedy. The work will be under the combined agencies of the war and agricultural departments Boynton was a member of the class of '06 at Berkeley, but left In 1905 to enter tbo veterinary department at Cornell. He held an Instructor's chair In Cornell Cor-nell for two year6 and was appointed New York Slate pathologist In charge of all diagnostic work on rabies and different animal diseases. |