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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
Dr. Howard then announced that the committee to arrange 
the annual meeting would be Dr. Winchester, Chairman, with 
Drs. Lee and Osgood. 
Dr. Marshall brought up the topic of death to animals by 
electric shock, and asked for views of the members present 
upon the subject. Very little information was elicited, until 
Dr. Winchester advised all interested to refer to the exhaus¬ 
tive report of the New York Board of Health upon the 
matter. 
Meeting then adjourned. 
The annual meeting of the Massachusetts Veterinary i\sso- 
ciation was held at Youngs Hotel, Boston, Wednesday even¬ 
ing, April 27th, 1892, at 5:30 o’clock. President L. H. Howard 
in the chair. 
Members present: Drs. Bryden, Blackwood, Burr, Emer¬ 
son Harrington, Hitchings, Howard, Osgood, Peterson, 
Saunders, Winchester, Winslow, Hitchcock, Parker and the 
Secretary. Honorary member, Dr. Stickney. Guests, Hon. 
Levi Stockbridge, Chairman of the Massachusetts Cattle 
Commission, and Dr. Geo. H. Bailey, veterinarian of the 
Maine Cattle Commission. Dr. W. L. La Baw was also present 
and was elected to membership during the meeting. 
Records of the previous meeting read and accepted. 
The Secretary reported that Dr. Blackwood had attended 
more meetings for the year 1891 and 1892 than Dr. Marshall, 
and that he therefore was entitled to Dr. Lee’s prize rasp. 
Dr. Winchester, as a member of the Committee of Ar¬ 
rangements for the annual meeting of the United States Vet¬ 
erinary Medical Association in Boston next September, 
reported that there would probably be one hundred members 
present, outside of the members of the Massachusetts Veter¬ 
inary Association, and that perhaps it would be better to 
arrange for meeting in some small hall rather than at Young’s 
Hotel. He also believed that any entertainment offered them 
by our State Association should be provided for by voluntary 
contribution, rather than by assessment. 
Dr. Howard read a letter from Secretary Hoskins, of the 
