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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
MASSACHUSETTS VETERINARY ASSOCIATION. 
Regular meeting of the Association held Wednesday even- 
ing, November 23d, 1892,at igBoylston Place, Boston.’ Pres¬ 
ident L. H. Howard in the chair. 
Members present: Drs. Billings, Blackwood, Becket, Em¬ 
erson, Harrington, Howard, Marshall, Osgood, Winchester, 
Parker, LaBaw and the Secretary. Honorary member: Dr, 
Stickney. 
Minutes of the last meeting read and accepted, after Dr. 
Winchester had made the following corrections: 
That Dr, Bryden spoke of the outbreak in the spring of 
1873 as the “so-called outbreak of spinal meningitis.” And 
also that it was at Dr. Bryden’s request that the name of the 
professor at the Harvard Medical School was withheld from 
publication, in connection with his remarks on springhalt. 
Dr. Osgood reported that the springhalt horse was in such 
a state two days after our last meeting, that he had him killed 
and sent to Ward’s, with the message that he would* like the 
cord, but through some misunderstanding it was boiled out, 
and was therefore useless. A few days later, a dog with what 
appeared to be springhalt was sent to the Harvard Veterin¬ 
ary Hospital. One hind leg was affected. Dr. Osgood sent 
this dog’s cord to Mr. Bolton, of Clark University, instead of 
the horse’s. 
Dr. Stickney thought that the dog ought to have had an 
exostosis on the hock of the lame leg. He had a pointer once 
himself with exostosis on the hock and springhalt. 
Dr. Howard read a letter from Mr. Bolton in reply to one 
he wrote him asking about the publication of Mr. Bolton’s 
paper on springhalt. Mr. Bolton said that his paper would 
appear in the January number of th z Journal of Mental and 
Nervous Diseases . 
Reports of committees.—Committee on resolutions in re. 
gard to the new “National Veterinary School,” reported 
through Dr. Winchester, and presented the following resolu¬ 
tions : 
Whereas , the members of the Massachusetts Veterinary 
