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COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS-OBITUARY. 
Before concluding I would like to call your attention to one thing we have 
neglected in the past year. We have not performed our duty towards our 
American veterinary journals. These journals must have support to live and 
material for publication. I would suggest that we give regularly, papers that 
are read and those of the cases quoted. I do not think it a good plan to crowd 
their pages with every detail of these meethings, but as much as in the Secre¬ 
tary’s judgment would be interesting to the profession. I know that I find 
much food for thought in the reports of other Associations, and I think it no 
more than right that we too should contribute our share. 
In conclusion I wish to thank you for the great honor you conferred upon 
me in the past two years. As I look back on the time now passed away I cannot 
but think of it with pleasure. At each meeting every member carried himself 
with decorum becoming a gentlemen. 
I take this opportunity to thank our faithful Secretary for his courtesy 
towards me on all questions and at all times, and if I have in any way offended 
him by alluding to the above, I wish to assure him that if I were his judge I 
would certainly acquit him. 
The next meeting will be held in New Haven, on Tuesday, September 1st, 
at which time Messrs. Bland and Todd will read papers. 
* II. S'. Todd, Secretary. 
COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT. 
The annual commencement exercises of the Veterinary 
Department of the University of Pennsylvania were held on 
the nth of June, The following gentlemen received their 
degree of V.M.D., Doctor of Veterinary Medicine : 
Bartholomew, Cleaver J. 
Bear, Benjamin S. J. 
Bickel, Samuel D. 
Bunting, Elwood B. 
Conard, Milton E. 
Conrow, Abraham E. 
Edwards, Warren. 
Entriken, Harry D. 
Jolly, Charles R. 
Records, John H. 
Senseman, Frank B. 
Tag, William. 
Wheeler, Arthur S. 
....Philadelphia, Pa. 
..Mt. Joy, Pa. 
... Philadelphia, Pa. 
....Burlington, N. J. 
....West Grove, Pa. 
..Moorestown, N. J. 
... Philadelphia, Pa. 
Kennett Square, Pa. 
..Atlanta, Ga. 
.Lewes, Del. 
Mechanicsburg, Pa. 
....Philadelphia, Pa. 
...New Orleans, La. 
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OBITUARY, 
ROBERT LAIDLAW, M.R.C.V.S. 
We regret to announce the death of Dr. Robert Laidlaw, 
which occurred some two months ago, in Albany, where he 
