SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
687 
The fee bill submitted was read again and some of the 
provisions modified, after which it was adopted by an unani¬ 
mous vote. 
Moved by Dr. Brown, seconded by Dr. Norton, to have 
one hundred copies of fee bill printed and distributed among 
the members; carried. 
Dr. Stewart presented the following report on collective 
statistics: 
Gentlemen— Your committee report the receipt of forty-eight notes on 
heredity from twelve members of this Association. Last year only five members 
responded to the call. If this ratio of interested members should continue to 
increase at the same rate during the next two years, every member would have 
at least one case to report in 1893. This year nearly all cases reported have a 
positive history, which makes the few notes received have a definite value. 
Of the notes received, nine were cases of ringbone, thirteen spavin, nine¬ 
teen specific ophthalmia, four kicking, two cribbing and one melanosis. 5 The 
cases of ringbone were all males excepting one, and all bays excepting two. The 
disease developed in one at the age of three and one-half months, in five at two 
years, in the remainder at four, five and nine years. In two the history is not 
given, in seven the sires and dams were sound, in only one case were other off¬ 
spring of the same sire similarly afflicted. 
The spavins were about equally distributed as to color and sex, and were 
developed at ages varying from fifteen months to ten years, and the several 
breeds shared the defect about equally. The disease did not afflict the sire of 
any, but the dams of three had spavins. In all cases where the grandparentage 
could be traced only one was found to be spavined, and in this case three gener¬ 
ations of females possessed this disabling blemish. 
Specific ophthalmia is reported in eleven draught horses and seven trotters, 
gallopers and roadsters. Eight were bay, four black, four grey and two brown. 
The average age of development in the draught breeds was three years, in the 
others four years. This malady afflicted the sires of three, the dams of six, the 
grandsires of two and the granddams of four; it also developed in other pro¬ 
geny of five guilty sires and dams. In eight cases the notes show positive free¬ 
dom of the progenitors from ophthalmia. 
The four kickers are all females, with no history of heredity attached, and 
the two cribbers could not blame their ancestry. 
The case of melanosis is of peculiar interest, in that the mare was a bay, and 
the disease became discoverable at the age of three; further, a full sister, of the 
same color, developed this disease at the same age. No trace of inheritance 
given. 
We sincerely trust that interest in this line of research will be developed to 
the full degree which its importance merits, that the notes which are collected 
from year to year may be preserved for future compilation. You ought to 
secure five hundred cases with positive history next year. We conclude, from 
the lack of enthusiasm taken in this interesting field of research, that the fault 
