SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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of threp to frame resolutions to the Fire, Police, Street Cleaning 
and Charities and Corrections Departments, to the effect that 
they employ only graduates of veterinary colleges in the treat¬ 
ment of their stock. Carried. 
This was also embodied in the work of the Committee on 
Legislation. 
Committee on securing room at the Academy of Medicine, 
Dr. Hanson, Chairman, reported that a comfortable room with 
seating capacity for about forty people could be had for ten dol¬ 
lars a month. After some discussion it was moved and seconded 
that the Association take the room. An amendment to the 
motion was offered to the effect that a committee be appointed 
to investigate the financial condition of the Association before 
taking a decided step in reference to securing the room. 
The amendment was put before the meeting and lost. 
The motion was then put before the meeting and carried. 
It was then moved and seconded that the committee be 
empowered to hire the room for the next meeting. Carried. 
Moved by Dr. Hanson, and seconded by Dr. Neher, that a 
vote of thanks be extended to Dr. Gill and the members of the 
faculty of the N. Y. C. V. S. for their hospitality in allowing the 
Association the use of their rooms in the past. Carried. 
Moved and seconded that the meeting adjourn. Carried. 
Robt. W. Ellis, D.V.S., Sec. 
MASSACHUSETTS VETERINARY ASSOCIATION. 
A meeting of this Association was held at 19 Boylston Place, 
Boston, January 21st, with a good attendance. 
Drs. Langdon, Frothingham, of Boston, and A. Lannon, of 
Malden, were elected members. The application of Dr. J. Mar¬ 
shall was received. 
Dr. Parker read a paper on “ Milk as a Factor in the Causa¬ 
tion of Disease,”* and a general discussion followed, in which Drs. 
Cooper Curtice, Osgood, Burr and McLaughlin took part. 
Howard P. Rogers, Sec . 
WISCONSIN SOCIETY OF VETERINARY GRADUATES. 
The annual meeting of this Society was held in Madison, at 
the City Hall, Wednesday, February 5, 1896. 
The meeting was called to order by the President, Dr. J. P. 
Laws, at 1:45 P.M. The roll was called, and the following mem¬ 
bers responded : W. G. Clark, J. R. Kelso, J. P. Laws, G. Ed. 
* Will be published next month. 
