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Dr. Lewis I. Bloom, of Curmusville, Pa., was unfavorably 
•eported, failing- to pass a satisfactory examination. 
The charges pending against Dr. G. Meyer, of Allegheny, 
3 a., were laid over until the September meeting. 
Under reports of committees, Dr. W. Horace Hoskins, as 
Chairman of Legislative Committee, made a brief report on 
he prosecutions being made in Allegheny County. 
Dr. W. L. Zuill, Chairman of the Committee on Sanitary 
Science and Police, made an unusually complete and exceed- 
ngly interesting compilation, covering the entire ground of 
hat committee’s field. 
Notice was given by Secretary Hoskins of the next meet- 
ng of the United States Veterinary Medical Association at 
Boston and the international meeting at Chicago, 1893, and a 
:ordial invitation was extended to all. 
At this period of the session a recess was taken, that the 
-ntire body present might accept the hospitality of the De- 
>artment of Veterinary Medicine of the Universitv of Penn- 
1 
ylvania at a bounteous lunch served at Boothby’s. The 
pread was one of very generous proportions, and was most 
horoughly appreciated by all present and brought forth a 
learty vote of thanks to the Department. 
The following members’ names were dropped from the 
oils for non-payment of initiation fees and dues : Drs. L. E. 
Vheat, A. Maurise, W. M. Brodhead, C. E. Bridge. 
It was decided, after some discussion, that the next annual 
neeting shall be of at least two days’ duration. 
Letters of regret were received from Drs. D. E. Salmon, 
\. Liautard, Claude Morris, B. F. King, H. B. McDowell, 
i. A. Grange, and members Turner, Timberman, Hoffman 
ind Magee. 
A communication from E. S. Bausticker was read. 
Papers being now in order, a paper on Laryngotomy, 
)y Dr. S. J. J. Harger, was read and illustrated by an exhibi- 
ion of all the necessary instruments for its performance, and 
)v a large number of fresh specimens showing the different 
'teps of the operation. It proved to be one of the most thor- 
mghly scientific papers read before the Association, and re- 
