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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
Prof. W. L. Williams, who has so recently taken the vacant 
chair at Cornell University, was as interesting as usual in a paper 
entitled “ Physiological Variations,” and he treated the subject 
in that masterly manner of which he is so capable. The dis¬ 
cussion of his paper was, for lack of time, also postponed. 
Frank H. Miller, fresh from the clinics of Berlin, read a very 
fascinating paper on “ Diabetes Mellitis in Dogs,” and his con¬ 
clusions were backed up by numberless cases from the hospitals, 
from entrance until post-mortem and miscropical examination. 
He demonstrated that the disease is much more common in the 
canine than is usually supposed, and we fear that many of us 
fail to recognize the disease in these cases because our examina¬ 
tions are not minute enough ; that the urine should be tested for 
the presence of sugar in those cases that give evidence of uri¬ 
nary derangement. His paper was much enjoyed, but, unfortu¬ 
nately, it shared the same fate as the preceding ones—discussion 
postponed. 
Dr. S. B. Nelson’s paper, “Nail Wounds of the Foot,” was 
sent to the Secretary, together with a contrivance for securing 
the dressing in place, but its reading was dispensed with, and it 
was ordered published in the “ Proceedings.” So was Dr. N. S. 
Mayo’s on “ Some Poisonous Stock Foods,” he having transmit¬ 
ted some of the foods described. And so was Dr. James A. 
Waugh’s article, “ Toeclip Injuries.” 
The Committee on Resolutions introduced the following, 
which were unanimously adopted : 
Resolved , That the United States Veterinary Medical Association, assembled in annual 
convention at Buffalo, N. Y., September 3, 1896, hereby respectfully and most earnestly 
protest against the passage, by the Congress of the United States, of Senate Bill No. 1 55 2 »_ 
improperly entitled a bill for the further prevention of cruelty to animals in the District ol 
Columbia, or of any other bill designed, like the said bill, to place restrictions upon scien¬ 
tific experiments upon living animals. 
Resolved , That the said association believes such legislation to be injurious to the prog¬ 
ress of the biological sciences, and that where operative it will prevent the acquirement of 
medical knowledge essential for the prevention and cure of the diseases of animals and 
men, and desires to add its protest to the protests already made by the American Medical 
Association, the National Academy of Sciences, the Association of American Medical 
Colleges, the Association of American Physicians, the American Academy of Medicine, 
the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, the American Association for the Advance¬ 
ment of Science, the American Microscopical Society, and other medical and scientific 
societies of the United States. 
Resolved , That the Secretary be directed to transmit a copy of these resolutions to the 
President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Resolved , That the United States Veterinary Medical Association appreciates the 
opportunity so courteously presented by the Pasteur Monument Committee of France to the 
American people of assisting in the erection of a suitable monument at Paris to the memory 
to the great investigator, and that the President is hereby authorized to appoint a committee 
to raise a fund which shall be presented in the name of the association. 
