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LIVERPOOL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSO- 
CIATION. 
The Twenty-seventh Quarterly Meeting of the LiverpoolVeterinary 
Medical Association was held at the Medical Hail, Hope Street, 
Liverpool, on Friday evening, 10th February, 1871, at 6 p.m. 
After tea had been discussed by the members and visitors, 
The Chair was taken by the President : J. Storrar, Esq. (of 
Chester). 
Present : Messrs. Storrar (Chester), Reynolds, Morgan, Kenny, 
Parks, Elam, Wilson, Leather, Hayes, Ackroyd (Liverpool), W. 
Wilson, Ed. Nuttall (Preston), T. Roberts (Oswestry), D. Maclean 
(Royal Artillery), P. Taylor, W. A. Taylor, T. Greaves, and Tom 
Taylor (Manchester), Barnes (Tarporley), Dobie(Birkenhead), Woods 
(Wigan), Whittle (Worsley), and the Secretary. 
Letters of apology were read from Messrs. Litt, T. D. Broad, 
A. Lawson, E. C. Dray, Jas. Taylor, C. Dayles, Jas. Howell, Carless, 
and W. Lewis. 
Mr. Morgan proposed, and Mr. Reynolds seconded, Mr. Barnes, 
of Tarporley, as a member of the Association, which was carried 
unanimously. 
Mr. Morgan nominated Messrs. Kenny and Parks, of Liverpool, 
as members of the Association. 
Mr. Reynolds gave notice that at next meeting he will propose 
Messrs. Flemming and T. D. Broad as honorary associates of the 
Association. 
The President then read his introductory address — 
Gentlemen, — In entering upon the office of Chairman, to which 
you have elected me, I must first of all express the pleasure with 
which I accept the honor you have done me. The office I know to 
be purely honorary — no tact or talent is necessary to keep up the 
spirit and interest of our meetings, neither it is necessary at any 
time to be authoritative or decisive. 
Bear with me, gentlemen, while I say that, ever since I came 
among you, I have enjoyed our meetings most heartily, and I look 
forward to the quarterly reunion as a red-letter day in my pro- 
fessional existence. 
Not only is there at every meeting a very considerable amount of 
practical information to be got, but our own opinions and experience 
are compared with those of others ; and being thus tested, are dis- 
proved or confirmed. 
I look upon these societies as most valuable to all who have the 
privilege of attending them. This conviction,is so generally enter- 
tained, that I express it in this place more as a matter of course, 
than from any idea that it is necessary to say a word in favour of 
veterinary medical associations. 
