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THE LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
ANNUAL MEETING AND DINNER. 
This annual gathering was held at the Spread Eagle Hotel, Cor- 
poration Street, Manchester, on the 25th January, at 5.30 p.m. The 
President, AY. AYhittle, Esq., occupied the chair. The following 
gentlemen were also present: — Messrs. T. Greaves, Peter Taylor, Tom 
Taylor, John Lawson, T. Walley, P. B. Phillips, Locke, Anderson 
(Manchester), Morgan, Kenny, Leather (Liverpool), D. Maclean 
(Royal Artillery), J. Hanly (4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards), 
AYoods (Wigan), Brookes (Pilkington), W. 1. Challinor (Worsley), 
A. Challinor, Dacre, Lowe (Bolton), J. Bostock (Altrincham'), 
Woolner (Heywood), and the Secretary. 
After a few remarks from the Secretary relative to the number of 
invitations sent out and replies received, the President proceeded to 
read his inaugural address. 
Gentlemen, — I will preface the few brief remarks I am about to 
address to you by thanking you for the honour you have conferred 
upon me in electing me your President. I confess I feel diffident 
in occupying that position ; but with a little indulgence on your 
part, and a determination on mine to do the best I can, I trust we 
shall not at least retrograde in our endeavours to promote the ad- 
vancement of our profession over preceding years, but, on the con- 
trary, I am hopeful we shall rather add to our already acquired 
stores of professional knowledge by the scientific and practical 
papers we are looking forward to receive during the year from 
members and their friends. I have no fear that the subjects will not 
do infinite credit to the writers ; and, gentlemen, my particular wish 
is, that we may be favoured with a good attendance at our meetings, 
not only to give encouragement and support to the essayist, but to 
take part in what I consider the most valuable portion of the even- 
ing’s proceedings, the discussion which the paper may evoke ; and I 
need not say that I trust we shall have an animated and exhaustive 
discussion after each and every paper read during my official year. 
I have heard the assertion made by persons, whose opinions on 
most subjects I should value, that the profession of which we are 
members has not, nor is now making that progress and scientific ad- 
vancement the public has a right to expect from it, as compared 
with its sister, the medical profession. 
Well, gentlemen, I do not consider it at all incumbent on me to 
attempt to prove that in times past our profession has, if I may use 
a homely phrase, “kept pace with the times in which we live;” in 
fact, my own opinion rather tends in an opposite direction ; but I 
nevertheless maintain that, since the formation and establishment of 
this and kindred veterinary medical associations throughout the king- 
dom, much has been and is being accomplished in an onward direction 
