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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
President, Canebrake Agricultural Experiment Station, Union- 
town, Ala.; Geo. W. Pope, D.V.S., Second Vice-President, 
Mobile, Ala.; W. J. Richardson, D.V.S., Third Vice-President, 
Birmingham, Ala.; M. B. Whitehead, D.V.S., Secretary and 
Treasurer, Montgomery, Ala. This meeting was called with 
the object of securing such necessary legislation for the prac¬ 
tice of veterinary medicine in the State of Alabama as will 
maintain it in its proper place in medical science. 
M. B. Whitehead, Secretary. 
ONTARIO VETERINARY COLLEGE MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
The Ontario Veterinary College Medical Society met in 
College Hall Wednesday evening, Oct. 21, 1891, and effected 
their organization for the session of ’9i-’92 with the following 
gentlemen as officers; President, A. Smith, F.R.C.V.S.; Vice- 
President, C. H. Sweetapple, V.S.; Secretary, J. S. Grove, 
Akron, Ohio; Assistant Secretary, J. W. Watson, Peru, Indi¬ 
ana; Librarian, F. W. Swearingen of Illinois; Treasurer, J. 
H. Hester of Nebraska. 
This Society meets twice a week for the reading of essays 
and communications, and the discussion of subjects relating 
to the profession. 
These meetings in the past have been sources of the great¬ 
est benefit to the members, and the students of this year are 
showing a disposition to keep up a lively interest in the work, 
as was well demonstrated in the meeting of Oct. 23, when the 
following interesting programme was presented: R. W. Tuck, 
of Elgin, Illinois, essay on “ Surra” ; J. Pickle, of St. Mary’s, 
essay, “ Purgatives ” (this paper elicited a great deal of dis¬ 
cussion); A. Gemmill, Wingham, Ont., essay on “Wounds, 
and Their Modes of Healing.” J. L. Badgley, of Pennsylva¬ 
nia, then read an interesting paper on “ Symptomatic An¬ 
thrax.” The following members then read reports of cases 
which had come under their care :—T. Macfarlane, Danville, 
Ill., “ Neurotomy ” ; N. Clark, London, Ont., “Acute Lami- 
nitis”; E. Nodyne, Rochester, N. Y., “Intestinal Calculi ”— 
a very interesting case, over thirty calculi, ranging in size 
