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the employment of men unfitted for the duty imposed upon them, 
or that by these means two millions annually, the cost of preventible 
disease of animals, can be saved to the nation’s pocket ? 
Let the members of the veterinary profession be united, let them 
throw off this degrading yoke of bobbyism , and let Government with 
its veterinary department, and local authorities, with their chief 
constables and policemen, catch and “consign to durance vile” all 
the diseased animals they can find. 
In these remarks, rapidly and rudely thrown together, “ notions 
fagotted as they felly * I would hope that some useful suggestions 
for a discussion of the problems of this disastrous malady may be 
found. 
An animated^ discussion followed, and in course of it an almost 
unanimous opinion was expressed that at least three months should 
elapse before the reintroduction of cattle into any locality where the 
disease had existed ; and that, consequently, the period of thirty 
days prescribed by the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act was not 
sufficient. 
It was also unanimously agreed, that the employment of police 
officers as inspectors of cattle was improper in the extreme, and 
that such offices should devolve on properly educated veterinary sur- 
geons, the efficient performance of their duties requiring an extensive 
knowledge and experience of disease in all its varied forms. 
W. Barry, 
Hon. Secretary. 
WEST OF SCOTLAND VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
This Association held its quarterly meeting at Glasgow, within 
the Athole Arms Hotel, Dundas Street, at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, 
the 13th day of July, 1870. The President, Alexander Potter, Esq., 
occupied the chair. 
Present, — ProfessorsWilliams, Fordie, and Wilson; Messrs. Ander- 
son, senior, Anderson, junior, Cockburn, junior, Erskine, Findlay 
and Robb of Glasgow ; Robinson (Greenock), Steel (Biggar), Laing 
(Falkirk), Blackie (Bellshill), Weir (Airdrie), Pollock (Coalbridge), 
A. Lawson (Bolton), Sharpe (Hamilton), and the Secretary. 
After the minutes of a former meeting had been read over and 
confirmed, the President, in opening the proceedings, said that he 
was pleased to see present so distinguished a member of the pro- 
fession as Mr. Lawson, who had come from Bolton purposely to 
attend this meeting, and he hoped Mr. Lawson’s example would be 
followed by other members of the various associations on the 
southern side of the border. Before him lay a letter from Mr. 
Greaves of Manchester, regretting his inability to be with them, 
