SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
MASSACHUSETTS VETERINARY ASSOCIATION. 
The regular meeting of the Massachusetts Veterinary As¬ 
sociation was held at 19 Boylston Place, Boston, Wednesday 
evening, October 28th, 1891, at 7:30 o’clock, President L. H. 
Howard in the chair. 
Members present: Drs. Bryden, Blackwood, Burr, How¬ 
ard, Hadcock, Marshall, Osgood, Winchester, Winslow and 
the Secretary. Honorary member: Dr. Stickney. Guest: 
Dr. E. F. Harrington. • 
Minutes of the last meeting (held in June) read and 
accepted. 
Dr. Osgood thought that the name of anyone proposed for 
membership should lie over a month before being balloted 
upon, so as to give ample time for looking up the applicant’s 
record. 
Dr. Bryden thought that we ought to act in accordance 
with our State charter. At the same time if there was any 
bugaboo it ought to be gotten rid of. The question is upon 
suspending the clause requiring a thesis as a requirement for 
admission, for a period of two years from last April. 
Ballot taken. Resulted in seven votes, all in the affir¬ 
mative. 
The Secretary reported a letter from Dr. Donaldson, of 
Clark University, acknowledging receipt of the spinal cord of 
the old pony killed for springhalt at Ward’s wharf last sum¬ 
mer, and saying that he would report the result of the micro¬ 
scopic examination as soon as it was completed. 
The committee, consisting of Dr. Winchester and the Sec¬ 
retary, which met a committee from the Board of Control of 
the State Agricultural Experiment Station at Amherst, con¬ 
sisting of Pres. Goodell and Secretary Sessions, of the State 
Board of Agriculture, on Thursday, July 2d, at the Common¬ 
wealth Building, Boston, to talk over the advisability of ap¬ 
pointing a veterinary pathologist at the State Experiment 
Station, reported that the committee that they conferred with 
