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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
that when the dues were increased to $5 each member would re¬ 
ceive such a copy. That those members who paid their dues, 
and were prevented from attending, were entitled to and should 
receive a verbatim report of the proceedings \ but, notwithstand¬ 
ing this, it was deemed inexpedient to precipitate a greater load 
of^debt upon the association than it now carried. So that they 
deemed it better to leave the deliberations of those years unpub¬ 
lished and come before the meeting this year free from debt. 
The cause of the paucity of the treasury had been the backward¬ 
ness of the members in paying arrearages, although the Secre¬ 
tary had been insistent in his efforts to make collections. This 
year the conditions were much improved, although economy in 
the matter of publication must be indulged in. So that bids 
were asked for, especially from the publishers of the veterinary 
journals, in the hope that the dual publication in the periodicals 
and the “ Proceedings ” would result in the cheapening of the 
cost of printing. In a discussion of the subject before the meet¬ 
ing the publishers of the journals showed a liberal spirit, and the 
matter was left in this shape until bids could be obtained from 
all of them, when the contract would be awarded. It came out 
in the discussion as the sense of the meeting that no circum¬ 
stance should prevent the fulfilling by the association of its ob¬ 
ligations to its members in supplying them with the “ Proceed¬ 
ings,” as those members who were unavoidably absent were 
clearly entitled to them from previous pledges of the association. 
Pater on, the Secretary announced that the condition of the 
treasury had so improved during this meeting as to make it posi¬ 
tive that the publication would be pushed to an early com¬ 
pletion. 
The matter set for discussion in the afternoon of the first day 
—“ Master Horse-Slioers Association Relative to Veterinary In¬ 
struction in Schools of Farriery ”—proved to be a very live 
question, and the debate upon it was of the most animated na¬ 
ture. The discussion was begun by the reading of a paper by 
Dr. H. D. Gill, who took a middle ground and treated the ques¬ 
tion from a scientific standpoint, after which Prof.. Joseph 
Hughes, of Chicago, outlined the course of instruction that 
he deemed most suited to the encouragement of the shoers— 
confining it to the normal anatomy of the structures of the 
horse’s foot. Dr. James Robinson, of Chicago, , who has done 
considerable work among the horse-shoers association, followed 
in a well prepared paper, taking a lofty stand in favor of instruct¬ 
ing blacksmiths in the normal and pathological conditions of 
