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VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
SECRETARY’S REPORT EOR THE TWENTIETH SESSION, 
1855 - 56 . 
Mr. President and Gentlemen, — In accordance with 
my duty at this, the last meeting for the session, I bring 
before you an outline of our proceedings. 
In the first place allow me to congratulate you on the 
continued success and increased popularity of the asso- 
ciation. Since the commencement of the session con- 
siderable accession of members has taken place, and we have 
never lacked subjects for discussion at our weekly meet- 
ings. These meetings, too, have been always well at- 
tended, and the matter brought forward for consideration of 
a highly useful and interesting character. The debates that 
followed have been likewise carried on in a friendly spirit, 
each member giving his views on the question and his prac- 
tical experience with readiness and urbanity, from which I 
am confident we all have obtained that degree and kind of 
knowledge which, but for the existence of this institution, 
we should have been without. The library having been 
considerably increased by donations and purchase, its books 
have been in frequent requisition by the students, an advan- 
tage we can only derive from this association. The funds, 
by the report of the treasurer at the beginning, were in a 
very favorable state, which must have now r become much 
increased. All this speaks well for the progressive im- 
provement of the institution. 
At the first meeting the following were elected from among 
the students as vice-presidents — Messrs. Crowhurst, Hall, 
Hill, Hern, Low e, and White. At the Christmas examina- 
tion three of these, Messrs. Hall, Low^e, and Hern, having 
obtained their diplomas, Messrs. Shipley, Martin, and 
Adamson w^ere elected in their stead. 
The following essays have been read and discussed : 
The Prize Essay, by Mr. G. Western. 
On Diseases of the Foot of the Horse, by Mr. J. Adamson. 
On Diarrhoea and Dysentery in Cattle and Sheep, by 
Mr. J. B. Hall. 
On Glanders and Farcy, by Mr. C. Stephenson. 
On Spasmodic and Flatulent Colic, by Mr. W. C. Bran- 
ford. 
On Parturient Apoplexy, by Mr. T. Hill. 
On Pleuro-pneumonia, by Mr. W. Shipley. 
On Bursattee, by Mr. F. G. C. Shaw\ 
