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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
utely into the etiology and pathology, ending by telling of the difficulties which 
were experienced in exterminating it from the State of New Jersey. 
Quite a lengthy discussion followed, in which Drs. Gerth of Newark, Gill 
of Jersey City, Hawk of Newark, Dustau of Morristown, Leatherman of Clin¬ 
ton and the President, Dr. Dimond, participated. Dr. Mook closed discussion in 
a very able manner. 
At 2:30 p. m. recess was taken for dinner. 
After convening, a number of letters were read by Secretary and ordered 
placed on file. 
It was regularly moved and seconded that the name of F. S. Billings be 
stricken from the roll of honorable membership. 
Dr. Gerth was appointed essayist for the next meeting, and promised to read 
a paper on “Hog Cholera.” 
The meeting then adjourned to meet again at Trenton, on the second Thurs¬ 
day in April, 1889. 
W. H. Cooper, Secretary. 
NATIONAL VETERINARY SANITARY ASSOCIATION. 
The National Veterinary Sanitary Association, a representative body of dele¬ 
gates from sanitary boards and veterinary associations throughout the United 
States, held its fourth annual meeting at the Grand Pacific Hotel on Tuesday, 
Nov. 20, Dr. A. A. Holcombe, of Wyoming, presiding. About twenty delegates 
were present. 
Papers upon Texas fever were read by Dr. Paul Paquin, of Missouri, and Dr. 
Lamb, the State Veterinarian of Nebraska. Drs. A. A. Holcombe, Wyoming; 
Herbert Holloway, Montana, and Dr. Lamb, Denver, were appointed to con¬ 
sider the question of Texas fever, and to recommend a quarantine line in Texas 
from south of which cattle should not be brought north. 
The committee proposed, and the report was adopted, that the line should 
start at the Red River, on the line between Wilbarger and Wichita counties, 
thence south to the southeast corner of Baylor county, west to the northeast cor¬ 
ner of Haskel county, south to the southeast corner of Jones county, west to the 
northeast corner of Nolan county, south to the southwest corner of Rummells 
county, east to the northwest corner of Concha county, south to the southeast 
corner of Sutton county, west to the northwest corner of Val Verde County, and 
south to the Rio Grande. 
Cattle from the counties lying south of this line will not be admitted to other 
States and Territories, unless they are seventy-five days north and west of the 
above line. 
Of the States and Territories affected by the quarantining of Texas cattle, 
Montana, Wyoming, Dakota and Nebraska were represented on the committee 
which submitted the report by their State or Territorial sanitarians, and agreed 
to enforce the quarantine laid down. Officers of other States will probably en¬ 
force the same quarantine. 
ILLINOIS STATE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association held its sixth annual 
meeting at the Sherman House, Chicago, November 16th and 17th. After the 
