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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
Great credit was given Professors Brenton and McEachran, 
late of the Detroit Veterinary College, for their laudable efforts 
to secure a three years’ course for the students there, and it was 
unanimously agreed by those present that a college could ill- 
afford to lose such men. 
It was now moved and seconded that an order be drawn for 
the payment of the rent for the current year. 
Dr. Lintz now moved that in connection with the next 
meeting we have a lunch as a finale to one of the most pleasant, 
instructive and prosperous years in the association’s history. 
This was seconded and unanimously voted upon. The Presi¬ 
dent appointed Drs. Lintz, Hoskins and Allen to take charge of 
that feature of the meeting. 
Dr. Rhoads now read some extracts from medical journals, 
deriding the germ theory, which caused the ardent followers of 
Pasteur to announce themselves, they giving personal observa¬ 
tions in osteoporosis, bovine actinomycosis, typhoid and other 
fevers, hog cholera, pneumonia, etc. 
After the report of a complicated case by Dr. McClellan, 
the society adjourned until June 9th, 1896. 
The June meeting of the Keystone Veterinary Medical As¬ 
sociation was called to order by President J. R. Hart, at 8:15, 
Tuesday evening, the 9th, with the following members of the 
profession present : Drs. Thomas Rayner, Jas. B. Rayner, Hile 
P. Eves, Harry J. McClellan, Francis Allen, Jas. Johnston, Clias. 
Goentner, Jas. T. McAnulty, W. H. Hoskins, John R. Hart, and 
W. L. Rhoads. 
The Committee on Certificates presented a form for the ap¬ 
proval of the members. There were a number of suggestions 
made, principal among which was that the form so read as to 
show the date of a member’s initiation, also the date of adoption 
of certificate. The committee was continued till the next meet¬ 
ing, with instructions to have the certificates at that time, when 
they would be presented. 
Dr. Hoskins spoke of a bill before the United States Senate, 
known as Senate Bill 1552, and destined to prohibit all vivisec¬ 
tion and experiments with animals. This induced an animated 
discussion, the sense of the Association being that its passage 
would only cause those who were interested in science to evade 
or violate the law. 
It was then moved and seconded that the Association, through 
the Secretary, take official action in condemnation of the bill. 
