IRISH CENTRAL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 153 
IRISH CENTRAL VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
The last meeting of the Association was held in the buildings of 
the Royal Dublin Society, on the 7th inst., the President, the Hon. 
Montague Mostyn, in the chair. 
Members present: — Mr. Steel, Mr. Murphy, sen., Mr. Lambert, 
Mr. Simcocks, Mr. Reilly, and Mr. Collins, and several members 
of the sister profession were likewise present as visitors. 
Letters of apology were received from several members who were 
unavoidably prevented attending the meeting. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The deaths of two members of the Association were recorded, 
that of Mr. J. J. Farrell, of Wicklow Street, and Mr. McDermott, 
of Belfast. 
It was proposed, seconded, and carried unanimously, that a letter 
of condolence should be forwarded to the widow of the late Mr. 
Farrell. 
A communication was received from the Yorkshire Veterinary 
Medical Association, enclosing a resolution passed by that Society, 
“That it is the opinion of this Society that the Veterinary Medical 
Societies in the United Kingdom are of sufficient importance to be 
represented in Council; and further, this Society is of opinion, that 
if each Society in the United Kingdom would send one of its mem- 
bers to represent its views in Council, the profession would be more 
thoroughly represented, and thereby the Council so constituted 
would be better able to bring about the desired changes which are 
so much needed, and which are so essential before our profession 
can claim that status in society which, as one of the liberal profes- 
sions, it has a right to expect.” 
The above resolution was put to the meeting, and every member 
fully concurred in its importance and necessity, more especially as 
Ireland is not represented in any way in the governing body of the 
profession. 
The President then delivered the following address : — 
Gentlemen, — Following the established custom of the Veterinary 
Medical Associations held in England, I feel it to be my duty to 
deliver to you an inaugural address. This, properly, I ought to 
have done at our last meeting, but which I stated at the time, owing 
to accidental and unforeseen circumstances, I was prevented doing. 
Usually the address is devoted to a resume of the progress and 
advancement which has accrued to the science during the past year, 
confined as these meetings are to members of the profession. 
But, gentlemen, as we are a new Association in Ireland, and see- 
ing the interest the public have taken in the formation of this 
Association, coupled with the erroneous views as to its objects, and 
also of the proper position of qualified members of the Veterinary pro- 
