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cast, all in the affirmative. I he President therefore declared 
him elected to membership. 
Dr. Osgood thinks that it is a farce to require applicants 
for membership to present their credentials to the Executive 
Committee, and that there is no need of its seeing a man’s cre¬ 
dentials, except we know nothing about him. He thinks the 
clause in the constitution interferes with men joining, who 
have their diplomas in frames, and perhaps fifty or one hun¬ 
dred miles away. 
Di. Howard lead the clause in the constitution, showing 
that nothing is said about diploma, but that only the term cre¬ 
dentials is used. 
Dr. Osgood as chairman of the executive committee, Drs. 
Emerson and Blackwood, members of the committee agree¬ 
ing with him, then gave notice that he reported favorably up¬ 
on the names of Drs. G. B. Foss and S. O. Fowle as appli¬ 
cants for membership, although their diplomas had not been 
presented to the committee, and that he requires the Secre¬ 
tary to give notice that their names will be voted upon at the 
next meeting. 
Dr. Billings then made a short speech, in which he refuted 
remarks made by Dr. Salmon about him, made at the meet- 
ing of the United States Veterinary Medical Association, in 
Boston, last September. He also spoke of his work in the 
West upon Texas fever, Maladie du Coit, “ Corn Stalk Dis¬ 
ease,” and summer septicaemia of stock. Concluding, spoke 
of State and Government veterinary positions, and thought 
that one reason why they are not filled by better men was 
that the salaries were so low as only to procure the services 
of a cheap class of men. 
Repoits of Cases. Dr. Blackwood showed specimens of 
enlarged axillary and cardiac lymphatic glands, from a horse 
which died, whose symptoms in life were simply tremendous 
swellings of the neck and chest, some of the glands being as 
large as kidneys. The subcutaneous cellular tissue of the 
neck was found to be about one and a half inches thick. 
Dr. Stickney lemembered once seeing a somewhat simi¬ 
lar case which died in less than twenty-four hours after the 
