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permitted to be landed, unless a certificate of health were 
produced on behalf of, or by the proprietors, a competent 
inspector being appointed to carry out the provisions of any 
law' which might be made on the subject/ 5 
We confess to feeling a deep interest in this matter, and to 
await with anxiety the next reports from the colony. If the 
statements now put forth are fully confirmed with reference 
to the cause of the appearance of the malady, we regard them 
as furnishing important data to the right understanding of 
its contagiousness, as w r ell as for safe legislation on the means 
of its prevention. Here, however, we must leave the subject 
for the present. 
VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
ACTING SECRETARY’S REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF 
THE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE 
SESSION 1858-9. 
Gentlemen, —The close of another session renders it 
necessary that I should lay before you a report of the pro¬ 
ceedings of the Association during the past year, and it affords 
me much satisfaction that, in so doing, I am enabled to con¬ 
gratulate the members upon its continued prosperity and 
usefulness. 
A greater number of new members have been elected during 
the session than for several previous years, and the essays 
which have been read have contained an equal amount of 
valuable information. The discussions, which assuredly are 
not the least important part of the proceedings of the Associa¬ 
tion, have proved the determination of the members to sift, as 
thoroughly as was possible, the matter before them, so as 
to arrive at the best practical results. As, however, no 
very lengthy comments are needed in a report of this kind, 
I shall, in place thereof, proceed to narrate the subjects which 
have occupied the attention of the society since its first assem¬ 
bling in October last. 
At the first meeting of the session, Messrs. J. K. Haire, 
M. Hack, T. J. Lang, J. Martin, A. H. Santy, and W. R. 
Stanley, were elected as vice-presidents; and I had the honour 
also of being re-elected as your acting secretary. 
Subsequently, Mr. J. M. Axe was elected a vice-president 
in the place of Mr. Stanley, who had obtained his diploma. 
At the meeting immediately following these proceedings, 
