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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
UNITED STATES VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The annual meeting- convened at io A.M. Sept. 15th., in 
Willard’s Hall, Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C., with about 
seventy-five veterinarians present, or less than one-half the 
number confidently expected. The attendance presented 
some peculiar aspects, in return for the trouble and expense 
incurred by the very respectably-sized body of eastern veter¬ 
inarians who journeyed to Chicago last year, five western 
veterinarians appeared, one from Minnesota, one from Mis¬ 
souri, while Indiana furnished three. Iowa with one hundred, 
Illinois with one hundred and fifty, and Ohio, with probably 
more than one hundred and fifty within her borders were not 
represented. Have eastern and western veterinarians really 
become amalgamated ? Do western veterinarians fail to com¬ 
prehend the real value of a strong, representative national 
organization ? 
In extenuation it may be said, that western veterinarians 
are young men, just struggling for a footing in new territory; 
that there has recently been inordinate crowding, owing to 
the excessive output of our colleges, and added to this, most 
regions in the Mississippi Valley have been very healthy for 
two or three years past, and veterinarians have suffered in 
consequence. But western veterinarians were not the only 
absentees. The veterinary colleges were poorly represented, 
although we have a right to expect that these founts of learn¬ 
ing should always be conspicious in these meetings. One of 
the two-year colleges, conveniently located, was represented 
by two members of its faculty, another two-year college had 
no representative present until the afternoon of the last day, 
when one of the faculty arrived in time to make a brief 
speech in favor of questionable modes of advertising and to 
sit down to the banquet. The other veterinary colleges, a 
dozen or so in number, were not represented. Are our vet¬ 
erinary colleges opposed to the U. S. V. M. A.? Have our 
professors of veterinary science the good of their profession 
