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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
achievements of veterinary science, and the interest has been 
fostered by the magazines and daily papers—quick to reflect aud 
even to mould the direction of public thought. This popular 
enthusiasm has opened up places hitherto closed to veterinarians. 
Scientific men generally are beginning to apply practical results 
achieved through veterinary science. The medical profession 
recognizes it as a valuable adjunct to their own—in fact, insepar¬ 
able and one. Following up this line of advancement, I predict 
wonderful results for this year. For instance, the perfection and 
application of the so-called X-rays as a diagnostic agent; more 
light on the theory of reproduction as it relates to heredity ; the 
relation of contagion between man and the lower animals ; the 
more liberal use of the veterinarian as a sanitarian ; the search 
for the physician’s north pole—life. 
Take the microscope and look 
Down on any living tissue, 
Lo ! before you like a book 
Lies the cell; and from it issue 
•Others ; and in all we trace 
Viscous globules—each one has ’em ; 
You’re of life the very base— 
Protoplasm. 
Every blade of grass, each flower, 
All that owns a life organic, 
Every man that lives this hour, 
Boasting of his thews Titanic ; 
Looking backward we can see, 
Over life as o’er a chasm, 
How all spring at first from thee— 
Protoplasm. 
• If I take a single drop, 
You’re in such a strange condition 
That your movements never stop, 
As if guided by volition. 
Ardently we watch you whirl; 
Science breeds enthusiasm; 
You’re as giddy as a girl— 
Protoplasm. 
Thus, it seems, to thee we owe 
All we are and all we may be ; 
Man, the microscope says so, 
Was a protoplastic baby. 
Here’s your health, then, since you bring 
Life, that physiologic spasm ; 
But for thee I could not sing— 
Protoplasm. 
Fraternally yours, 
Chas. W. Heitzman, M.D.C. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK COUNTY. 
The Veterinary Medical Association of New York County 
was called to order at its rooms in the Academy of Medicine, 
at 8.45 p. M., Feb. 3d, with the President, Dr. Huidekoper, in 
the chair. The following members responded to roll-call : Drs. 
Bretherton, Bell, C. C. Cattanach, J. S. Cattanach, Delaney, El¬ 
lis, Farley, Gill, Huidekoper, Hanson, Jackson, Foomes, Eam- 
kin, Machan, MacKellar, Miller, Neber, and O’Shea. 
Report of Board of Censors. —Dr. Gill (Chairman) re¬ 
ported that the committee recommended to the association, that 
the action previously taken in the Glover case stand. The 
committee reported favorably on the name of Dr. M. J. Murphy, 
