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animals galled with the saddle, when with his regiment in China. 
The irritation caused by flies retards the healing process, but, by 
the use of the cautery, disagreeable effects were almost always 
removed. 
Mr. Broad afterwards replied. The thanks of the meeting were 
conveyed to the essayist and President respectively, and the pro- 
ceedings closed. 
At the ensuing meeting, on March 9th, the Secretary will bring 
forward his remarks on the present existing enzootic disease among 
horses, known as influenza. 
YORKSHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
The eighth annual meeting was held at the Queen’s Hotel, Leeds, 
on Friday, the 27th January, at 12.30 noon. The President, Mr. 
Robert INicholson, in the chair. The following members were pre- 
sent, viz. Prof. Williams, Edinburgh School ; James Freeman, Hull ; 
Charles Patterson, Dewsbury ; J osepli Freeman, Keyingham ; P. 
Walker, Bradford ; William Taylor, Wetherby’; William Edmundson, 
llarmby ; Charles Seeker, Knaresbro’ ; John Faulkner, Wetherby ; 
P. Smith, Winterton ; S. F. Fallding, Wakefield ; John Scho- 
field, Pontefract; J. W. Anderton, Skipton ; and Messrs. E. C. 
Dray, John Cuthbert, William Broughton, Wm. Fearnley, and 
J. II. Ferguson, Leeds. Messrs. D. Maclean, Royal Artillery ; 
William James Anderton ; and Joseph Faulkner, were present as 
visitors. 
Apologies for non-attendance were received from Mr. Constant, 
5th Dragoon Guards ; George Morgan, Liverpool ; P. Taylor, Man- 
chester; A. Lawson, Bolton ; and Messrs. T. Greaves, M. E. Naylor, 
D. McTaggart, John Fryer, Thomas Pratt, James Bale, John Free- 
man, and William G. Schofield. 
The Secretary read letters announcing the resignation of Messrs. 
J. T. Astin, Huddersfield; George Bourdass, Bridlington ; and John 
Job Cooper, Market Weighton. 
Mr. Bray proposed, and Mr. Taylor seconded, the election of 
Mr. John Henderson Ferguson (late of Ayr, successor to Mr. Dray) 
as a member.- — Carried. 
The Secretary (in the unavoidable absence of Mr. Naylor) pro- 
posed, and Mr. Fearnley seconded, the following addendum to Rule 
3, viz. “ That any gentleman when nominated as a member of this 
society, being at the time a member of any other veterinary medical 
society, be admitted a member of the society upon payment only of 
the annual subscription of 10s. 6c?. — Carried. 
The President then delivered the Inaugural Address. 
Gentlemen,— You have done me the high honour of electing me 
to fill, for the forthcoming year, the Presidential Chair of your 
