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special attention of our readers to it. The meeting in Boston 
will be one of great importance, and, we believe, one of the 
largest the Association ever had. The work which will be 
done at Union Hall will be one of lasting influence on the future 
of veterinary medicine in this country, and no member of the 
profession can well afford to remain away from it. 
The notice reads as follows : 
Philadelphia, Pa., August 23, 1892. 
To all Members of the United States Veterinary Medical Association and the 
Veterinary Profession throughout the United States: 
All applications for membership filed in the office with the Secretary on or 
before September 15th, will receive consideration at Boston on September 20th. 
The Secretary desires to give notice that there will be at least ten papers, 
iside from the reports of Committees, for consideration at this meeting, em¬ 
bracing subjects of the greatest interest and importance to the entire profession. 
All railroads east of Chicago, and the Chicago & Alton from Bloomington, 
Ill., will grant the one and one-third rates to all members attending this 
neeting. 
The meeting will be held in Union Hall, 48 Boylston St., Boston, Mass., on 
September 20tb, 21st and 22d. The Committee of Arrangements recommend 
he following hotels: Young’s Hotel, U. S. Hotel, Hotel Reynolds, and a the 
Thorndike. i ^ 
A special meeting of the International Committee of Arrangements will be 
leld at Young’s Hotel, September 19th, 1892, at 4 p.m. sharp. A special meeting 
>f the Comitia Minora will be held at Young’s Hotel at 8 p.m. September 19th., 
892. 
The banquet will be given at Young’s Hotel. It will close our exercises at 
p.m. on the 22d. A general invitation is extended to the entire veterinary 
profession of the United States to be present at this meeting. By order of the 
ecretary. W. Hoeaoe Hoskins. 
12 South Thirty-seventh St., Phila., Pa. 
President , R. S. Huidekoper. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
CONTAGIOUS PLEURO-PNEUMONIA OF THE HORSE. 
A Paper read by W. L. Williams, Y.S., before the Indiana Veterinary 
Association. 
The so-called pleuro-pneumonia contagiosa of the horse 
is heretofore received but little attention as a distinct speci- 
: disease at the hands of English veterinary writers, the 
fly literature I have been able to find being a paper entitled, 
Infectious Pneumonia of the Horse/’ by Dr. Fleming, ap- 
'iaring in the Veterinary Journal , Vol. xxxiii., p. i. 
