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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
lies with your committee, and we trust that the committees who assume the 
conduct of this line of work hereafter may possess the charm or magnetism 
which will hold the attention of all the members to their duties in this matter. 
The discussion on this report was quite general and 
brought out many histories evidencing the continuance of 
vice or deformity through three or four generations. Several 
instances were cited in which colts seemed to have acquired 
the vice of cribbing by association with an aged horse having 
this habit. 
On motion, the report was received and the committee 
discharged. 
The Board of Censors reported favorably upon eleven 
applications for membership and unfavorably upon one. 
Moved by Dr. Morse, seconded by Dr. Brown, that the 
Secretary cast the ballot of this Association for each of the 
applicants found worthy of membership. Carried. 
The Secretary—Pursuant to instructions, I cast the ballot of 
this Association for each of the applicants found worthy, and 
the following-named gentlemen are duly elected members of 
this Association: Samuel Whitbeck, Elma; L. U. Shipley, 
Sheldon; W. A. McClanahan, Ames; H. L. Chatterton, 
Peterson; J. O. F. Price, Clear Lake; J. E. Harrison, Bur¬ 
lington; R. Thomas, Oelwein ; W. A. Heck, Harlan; G. F. 
Starkey, Boone; Wm. H. Austin, Newton; John J. Miller, 
Sioux City. 
The Secretary submitted the following report:— 
Mr. President and Gentlemen: 
The increasing membership, the strength and character of the work done 
in our Association should be a source of congratulation, and a stimulus to further 
efforts to excel. Our code of ethics is wholesome and strong, and will aid us to 
esteem our profession. The line of painstaking investigation which is started in 
the study of heredity ought to lead us into many useful fields of research and de¬ 
velop us into a society of investigators. Let us develop this phase of scientific 
labor, and as a body do a definite work for the enhancement of our beloved pro¬ 
fession. 
The Vis Medicatrix , a journal representing the Iowa State Medical Society, 
offers the veterinary profession of Iowa a place in its columns for representation 
as a sister profession which has many lines of work in common. I recommend 
the acceptance of the proffered space, for the purpose of nurturing the field of 
comparative medicine, and engendering a social and professional bond of fellow¬ 
ship within our State, which must prove helpful to all laborers in the field of 
medicine. 
