SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
99 
nodules of varying sizes, containing a cheesy pus, with a history 
of owning seven game pullets. He had procured a game cock¬ 
erel, which shortly after getting it appeared sick and dumpish, 
gradually getting worse but suffering apparently no pain, until 
it wasted away, a mere skeleton, and all seven of the pullets 
followed suit. On examination, the members pronounced the 
trouble to be tuberculosis. 
Professor Detmers being now present, the reading and dis¬ 
cussion of the veterinary law was continued, and when after 
several hours the discussion closed most of the members had a 
better opinion of the law than they had before, as it was an 
entering wedge upon which all must now unite, and secure, if 
possible, amendments which will obtain for us a better acknowl¬ 
edgment of the profession in the State of Ohio. 
There is now a vacancy in the Board of Veterinary Examin¬ 
ers, and this association suggested the names of Drs. J. D. Fair, 
W. E. Wight and W. F. Derr to the Governor, from which to 
select one as a suitable veterinarian to fill the vacancy. 
The association now adjourned, to meet in Chillicothe, in 
semi-annual session at the call of the secretary, the date to be 
named by Dr. N. B. Jones. 
Wm. H. Gribble, D.V.S., Sec. 
MASSACHUSETTS VETERINARY ASSOCIATION. 
The regular monthly meeting of the Massachusetts Veterin¬ 
ary Association was held at 19 Boylston Place, on Wednesday, 
Dec. 26, at 7.30 P. M. 
The members present were Drs. Bunker, Burr, Emerson, La- 
bau, Osgood, Parker, Winchester and Winslow, and several 
visitors. 
The names of Drs. Walker and Taunton, a graduate of Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania and A. J. Sheldon, of 50 Village street, 
a graduate of the American Veterinary College, were received 
and laid on the table for a month. The name of Dr. Sheldon 
was reported on favorably by the members of the Executive Com- 
