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OBITUARY-NOTICE. 
Dr. Glass’ views of the matter were that it should be a National Board of 
Examiners and not a State matter, as it would get into politics and favors be shown 
in granting the positions. Get the veterinarians at large interested ; push it and 
keep at it. 
Dr. Glass then compared the number of University of Pennsylvania gradu¬ 
ates as smaller compared to the Canadian schools, as a result of the three years’ 
course. He thought it would be advisable to stamp out all the schools and form 
a limited number of government schools, the same as in Germany ; inasmuch as 
the veterinarian is the preventive and the physician the curer of desease. 
Dr' Goentner made a motion that a committee be appointed to draft suitable 
resolutions, embodying the views of the Keystone Veterinary Medical Association, 
on the subject of a higher standard of veterinary medicine and a single Board of 
Examiners. 
Seconded by Dr. Hoskins. Carried. 
The President appointed the following committee : 
Drs. Glas, chairman; Goentner and Weber. 
Election of officers. The Secretary’s place now being vacant, Drs. Kooker 
and Drake were proposed. 
Dr. Kooker’s name being withdrawn at his own request, Dr. Drake was 
elected by acclamation. 
The meeting then adjourned. 
M.W. Drake, Secretary, 
OBITUARY. 
E. NOSTRAND, D.V.S. 
After a practice of over fifty years in the city of New 
York, Doctor Elbert Nostrand died of pneumonia on April 
14th, 1891, at the advanced age of eighty-three years and one 
month. Born at Springfield, Long Island, he at an early age 
began practice in New York city, and was one of the first 
American veterinary graduates, receiving his diploma in 1865, 
from the New York College of Veterinary Surgeons. Dr. 
Nostrand even at his advanced age, in fact to within a few 
days of his sickness, was still in active practice, and many 
New Yorkers have often met him but a short time before his 
death while in the performance of his professional duties. 
NOTICE. 
POSITION WANTED. 
Graduate 1875, officially employed, wishes to occupy his vacation as a 
manager or assistant. Apply, stating terms, to T. J. M. care of Sabiston & 
Murray, 916 Sixth Avenue, New York. 
