SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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minute-book of the association that they might have the correct 
date of its organization placed on the membership certificates. 
Dr. H. J. McClellan having given up the profession of vet¬ 
erinary medicine, tendered his resignation to the association, 
which was read and referred to the Board of Trustees. 
Dr. Hoskins then read an interesting paper entitled “ Some 
Aspects of Association Works and Aims,” in which he urged 
the necessity of a closer union of the profession at this tune 
when we are so ill-prepared to stand alone as individuals ; fur¬ 
ther than this, we need to foster a closer affiliation with our 
brother profession, that of human medicine. He spoke of the 
great danger to our own welfare and prosperity by the establish¬ 
ment in our midst of great marts of trade toward which every 
channel of trade seems to run. As a rule, their influences are 
not for the general good. He cited an instance where there had 
been concentrated under one roof the business of fifty or more 
individual houses, thus losing to the community the value of a 
I number of good and efficient men. To the acute observer this 
means a loss to the manufacturer of drugs and chemicals, as 
well as the retailer and dispenser, also the carriage-builder, ’the 
harness-maker, the shoer, etc., ad infinitum. Undoubtedly the 
strength of our association circles first brought before the people 
the advantage of civil-service reform, and, after thoroughly en¬ 
thusing them on the subject, has year by year gradually raised 
the standard of such examination till now, not the politician, 
but the proficient professional man is most sure of his position! 
Thus the association is an incentive to all to keep moving 
toward the top. The reading of this paper, which, by the way, 
I was up to date, was listened to with great interest, and evidently 
thoroughly digested by each one fortunate enough to hear it. 
The first of the half-hour talks arranged for this season’s 
entertainment was by Dr. J. Cheston Morris, “ On Some Sta¬ 
tistics of Dairy-products and Thoughts Thereupon ; Personal 
Experience in the Proper Preparation of Milk for Sale in the 
Markets and the Value of Separator-products of Milk.” This, 
though looked forward to with great interest, was to all a most 
delightful surprise, as it was, without doubt, the most thoroughly 
comprehensive and instructive talk on this or kindred subjects 
ever given before the association. Dr. Morris spoke of the supe¬ 
riority of Devon cattle for the production of milk to be used in 
its natural state, as due to its relative proportions of butter-fat, 
casein, and sugar being the same, or nearly so, as those of hu¬ 
man milk, as shown by the manv thousands of analyses made 
