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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
Dr. Bryden thinks we ought to memorialize the faculty 
of this school, and not attack them in an arbitrary way. We 
ought to do it kindly and harmoniously. 
Dr. Howard thinks that other schools have been started 
with a two years’ course, and have had officials of the Bureau 
of Animal Industry as teachers, and our course must be con¬ 
sistent. Motion then put and carried without a dissenting 
voice. 
Dr. Howard then said that our course must be consistent, 
and what we send must be something nobody can go behind. 
He then appointed Drs. Parker, Bryden and Peters on the 
committee. All refuse to accept. 
President Howard then appointed Drs. Parker, Bryden 
and Winchester as a committee. 
Motion then made by Dr. Peters that the committee re¬ 
port at the next meeting. Seconded by Dr. Winslow. Car¬ 
ried. 
Reports of cases : Dr. Winslow, of Rockland, has procured 
a case of springhalt which is now at the Harvard Veterinary 
Hospital where members can see him. He was to have been 
brought down town for the members of the Association to 
see to-night, but he has become incapacitated in some way 
and could not come. 
Dr. Bryden reported having examined him to see if it was 
worth while to attempt treating him. He says the horse’s 
hocks are deformed ; he is old, and his reparative powers are 
well gone, and he doubts if treatment will do any good, but 
is willing to try. 
Dr. Winslow first saw the animal two weeks ago. He 
does not show well-marked signs of springhalt when quiet, 
but if started up suddenly for a little way, then stopped for a 
moment, and then started again, he shows it in one leg almost 
as much as the old black horse that the Association killed a 
year ago last July. 
Dr. Howard then read a letter from Mr. T. L. Bolton of 
Clark University, in which he, among other things, said he 
was willing to investigate this case as he did the last one. 
Dr. Bryden reports a conversation he had with a profes- 
