SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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VIRGINIA STATE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The third regular meeting of the Virginia State Veterinary 
Medical Association was held in the Old Bank building, Char¬ 
lottesville, Va., January 3, 1895, at 10 A.M., Dr. W. H. Har- 
baugh in the chair. 
There were present : W. H. Harbaugh, V.S., Rich¬ 
mond; E. P. Niles, D.V.M., Blacksburg; T. A. Donaldson, V.S., 
Richmond; C. P. Dixon, D.V.S., Charlottesville; Wm. T. GiL- 
christ, V.S., Norfolk; D. B. Miller, M.R.C.V.S., Charlottes¬ 
ville; H. Marshall, D.V.S., Charlottesville; Geo. C. Faville, 
D.V.M., Norfolk, besides several members of the medical profes¬ 
sion as visitors. 
After the reading and approval of the minutes of the last 
meeting, the following members who had been recommended by 
the board of censors for election, were balloted for and elected 
to membership: F. P. Williamson, D.V.S., Raleigh, N. C.; R. 
D. Garcin, M.D., Richmond, Va.; Chas. McCulloch, Jr., D.V.S., 
Howardsville, Va.; E. S. Walmer, V.S., Washington, D. C.; 
John E. Miller, V.S., Richmond, Va.; C. B. Robinson, V.S., 
Washington, D. C. 
Under the head of new business, the following resolution, 
which was adopted by the United States Veterinary Medical 
Association at its last meeting, was read : 
Whereas, We, the United States Veterinary Medical Association, do condemn 
the operation of docking horse’s tails as an operation of fashion, believing that nature 
intended them as a defense against insects, etc. But so long as it is demanded as an 
operation of fashion we believe that it should be performed by skilled veterinarians, 
who are sure to perform it with greater care, less pain and suffering to the animal, 
and we cannot unqualifiedly condemn those who perform the operation under such 
conditions. 
Dr. Harbaugh discussed this as a decided straddle of the 
question, the resolution being in one instance a condemnation 
of the operation and in the other favoring the operator. The 
question was discussed by most of the members present, when 
Dr. Gilchrist, of Norfolk, introduced the following: 
