SOCltefY MEETINGS. 
Our hosts and our visitors, among whom our hours were 
so joyous and profitable, and the pleasure of our companion¬ 
ship to enjoy their hospitality, found pleasant thoughts and 
last-gathering memories in the words of Messrs. Faville and 
W inchester. 
The value of associations of .veterinarians and the rich fruits 
t ey were bearing all over the country, and the broad work of 
this Association in encouraging and directing the same, proved 
* ;™ ltful theme in the richness of thought of Vice-President 
Williams of the Association. 
Among the honored heads around the table was one whose 
ty and more years in the every day work of the profession, 
in the hard and laborious duties of a rural practice, in season 
and out of season, at all hours of the day and night, and over 
whose head has flitted almost four score of years, still work¬ 
ing and toiling, honored and revered by all in his profession, 
loved by his people among whom he daily mingles and whose 
whole life is as untarnished as virgin gold, and whose integrity 
after fifty and more years still remains unquestioned ; whose 
sincerely honest work in all that he has done still stands un¬ 
challenged, sat the venerable Isaiah Michener of Pennsylvania. 
Called to speak by toast-master Huidekoper, he gave utter¬ 
ance to these quaint and amusing remarks that had for its 
emblem the Association so well represented around the festal 
board: 
I attended the first call made for the purpose of forming 
a veterinary association, which was held in New York in 
1863. The idea of forming such a society I think originated 
in the office of Dr. Jennings in Philadelphia; and I now pro¬ 
pose to set up a horse to represent this society from its incep¬ 
tion to the present time. In this preliminary meeting in 
Philadelphia we had a mare that was thought to be pregnant, 
and it was agreed that she should be taken to New York and 
professional accouchers should be summoned from Boston, 
Philadelphia and other places to be present on the anticipated 
parturient day. Well! the colt was soon born under the 
manipulations of the professors present. But, what a colt ! 
t was ewe-necked, down-headed, narrow-breasted, crooked- 
