300 WEST OF SCOTLAND VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
all ordered, on the motion of Professor Spooner and Mr. Withers, 
to be paid. 
Mr. Withers gave the following notice of motion : “ That 
the custom which existed previous to the time when the 
veterinary members of the examining board relinquished 
their fees, be reverted to.” 
E. N. Gabriel, Secretary . 
REPORT OF THE MEETING OF THE 
WEST OF SCOTLAND VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
The usual Quarterly Meeting of the West of Scotland 
Veterinary Medical Association was held in the Tontine Hotel, 
Trongate, Glasgow, on the 28th March, I860. 
Mr. Dunlop, in the absence of Mr. Cockburn, the Presi¬ 
dent, in the Chair. 
Present: Messrs. Dunlop, Anderson, Marshall, Howatt, 
Robinson, Sharpe, Warfolk, Dobbie, McDougall, McKirdy, 
Gamgee, and Moir.—Mr. Aiken, of Kilmarnock, was pre¬ 
sent by invitation. 
The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and 
confirmed, 
The Secretary read notes of apology from Messrs. Steele, 
McCall, and Balfour of Kirkaldy, who were also invited to 
attend this meeting. 
The revised rules were read and approved of, and on the 
motion of Mr. Anderson , seconded by Mr. Robinson , they 
were ordered to be printed and circulated among the mem¬ 
bers. 
It was proposed and agreed to, that the present office¬ 
bearers do hold office till the December meeting, and that the 
annual election of office-bearers do take place for the future at 
the last meeting of the association in every year. 
The Chairman then introduced Mr. John Gamgee, of the 
New Veterinary College, Edinburgh, who had expressed a 
wish to read a paper on 4 Veterinary Obstetrics.’ 
Mr. Gamgee , during his remarks, called the attention of the 
meeting to a case of malpresentation in a mare, in which he 
was unsuccessful, from not having, as he alleged, proper 
instruments at hand, and also to the delay before he was 
called to the case. He also stated that he had been consider- 
