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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
MASSACHUSETTS VETERINARY ASSOCIATION. 
Regular meeting- of the Massachusetts Veterinary Asso-j 
ciation held at 19 Boylston Place, Boston, Wednesday even-i 
ing, October 26th, 1892, at 7.30 o’clock. President L. Ho 
Howard in the chair. 
Members present: Drs. Bryden, Blackwood, Burr, Had-; 
cock, Howard, Marshall, Osgood, Winchester, Winslow,I 
Parker, LaBaw, Stinson, and the Secretary. Honorary mem-: 
ber: Dr. Stickney. Visitors: Messrs. Cronin and Dowd, I 
students at the Harvard Veterinary School. 
Records of a regular June meeting, and a special meeting, 
held in September read and accepted. 
Unfinished business, none. 
Reports of committees: Dr. Winchester reported for the] 
committee appointed to arrange for entertaining the United 
States Veterinary Medical Association during its meeting in 
Boston last September. Moved by Dr. Osgood and seconded 
by Dr. Blackwood that the report be accepted. Carried. 
Moved by Dr. Osgood, seconded by Dr. Blackwood, that 
the surplus from the entertainment fund be paid into the As¬ 
sociation’s treasury. Carried. 
Admission of members: Names of Drs. E. P. McKenna! 
and Wilbert Soule balloted upon. Twelve votes cast for 
each, all in the affirmative. They were therefore elected. 
Application for membership : The application and creden. 
tials of W. M. Balmer, M.D.V. (Harv.), were reported favor.- 
ably upon by the Executive Committee. Dr. Balmer’s name 
is laid on the table for a month under the rules. 
New business: Dr. Winchester called the attention of 
members of the Association to the first annual announcement 
of the “National Veterinary School ” in Washington, many i 
members of the faculty being veterinarians who are either I 
members of the United States Veterinary Medical Associaj] 
tion, or connected with the United States Bureau of Animal 1 
Industry, or both. He also called the attention of the menu ' 
