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and Messrs. Balfour, Kirkcaldy ; Connachie, Selkirk ; Professor 
Williams, Veterinary College, Edinburgh, Vice-presidents for the 
ensuing year. The treasurer, Mr. Baird, and the secretary, Mr. 
Mitchell, were both re-elected. 
A cordial vote of thanks was awarded to Mr. Cummings for his 
able and instructive paper, and also to Professor Williams for his 
conduct in the chair, which terminated the proceedings. 
The next meeting, being the annual meeting of the Society, will 
be held on the second Wednesday of February, 1871, at 2 o’clock 
p.m., when the President will deliver an inaugural address. At the 
close of the meeting the members will hold their first annual dinner, 
to which professors of veterinary colleges and all connected with 
veterinary science are cordially invited. 
James Mitchell, Secretary. 
CENTRAL VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY, 
LONDON. 
A Special General Meeting of this Society was held on Tuesday 
last, F. J. Mavor, M.R.C.V.S., in the chair. 
After the preliminary business, the Secretary read a commu- 
nication from a Fellow of the Society, directing attention to the 
anomalous position into which veterinary surgeons are likely to be 
plunged by a Medical Bill now sought to be obtained by the sister 
profession. Considerable time was devoted to the question, and 
at length the Secretary was requested to forward the letter to the 
Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, calling the 
attention of that body to the importance of the subject, with 
the view of effecting, if possible, some amelioration of the 
conditions. 
Mr. T. W. Gowing, sen., exhibited a case of instruments for firing 
and also for castration, in which usefulness, portability, and security 
against loss and displacement were admirably united. 
Mr. F. J. Mavor exhibited the pelvis of a horse which had been 
fractured from a fall. The symptoms were not sufficiently marked 
at the time to admit of a precise diagnosis being formed, but at a 
later period the fracture was accompanied with great displacement 
and distortion of the haunch. After a period of three months the 
animal died rather suddenly. 
The case possessed many points of scientific interest, which were 
successively dilated upon by the Fellows present. Probably one of 
the most remarkable features being the small amount of ossific de- 
posit which had taken place during the lengthened period the animal 
had lived after the accident. This circumstance, doubtless, was to be 
explained by the fact, stated by Mr. Mavor, that the animal was in 
such low condition that the reparatory power was very deficient. 
