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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
owing to the fact that the only place of the pigmentary deposits was in the 
kidneys. The kidneys degenerated, formed an abscess, which broke in the abdomi¬ 
nal cavity, causing death. 
On motion it was agreed to hold the annual meeting in New Brunswick. 
A. T. Seller, Secretary. 
MASSACHUSETTS VETERINARY ASSOCIATION. 
The regular meeting of the Massachusetts Veterinary Association was held 
at 19 Bolyston Place, Boston, Wednesday evening, Jan. 23th, President Thomas 
Blackwood in the chair. 
The Secretary being absent the minutes of the last meeting were not read, 
and the roll was not called. 
Dr. J. M. Skally was elected Secretary pro tem. 
The following members were present: Dis. Blackwood, Osgood, Marshall, 
Haddock, Peterson, Emerson, Lee and Skally. 
After a general discussion of various topics the meeting adjourned. 
The regular meeting of the Massachusetts Veterinary Association was held 
at 19 Boylston Place, Boston, Wednesday evening Feb. 28th, 1891, President 
Thomas Blackwood in the chair. 
Members present: Drs. Becket, Blackwood, Bunker, Emerson, Hadcock, 
Marshall and the Secretary. Visitor, Dr. Wilbert Soule. 
Minutes of the two previous meetings—November and January—read and 
accepted. 
The Secretary reported for Dr. Winchester, who was appointed a committee 
of one to invite Dr. Van Schaick, of the Pasteur Institute of New York, to address 
the Association upon rabies, that Dr. Van Schaick’s time would not permit of 
his coming to Boston to give such an address at present. 
There was no essayist for this meeting, but Dr. Bunker agreed to read a 
paper before the Association at the March meeting, subject to be announced 
later. 
The members present then took part in a general discussion upon the follow¬ 
ing topics : 
First, the action of the Cattle Commissioners regarding glanders and tuber¬ 
culosis, and the folly of three laymen, such as the Board is composed of, in con¬ 
sidering themselves as experts on animal diseases, and the harm they do the 
community in setting the opinion of competent veterinarians at naught. 
Second, the diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis, especially the difficulty of 
detecting the disease in its incipiency. 
Meeting then adjourned. 
Austin Peters, Secretary. 
NEBRASKA VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
A call of the graduated veterinarians of the State of Nebraska, by Drs. Wil¬ 
son and Cosford, to form a veterinary medical association, resulted in a meeting 
