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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
Secretary. The report was accepted and the committee dis¬ 
charged. In this connection Dr. Spencer, Sr., made a few re¬ 
marks regarding the support given the Committee on Legisla¬ 
tion by the members of the association. He stated that the fail¬ 
ure on the part of the committee^ to obtain the passage of 
Assembly Bill No. 210 was entirely due to the lack of interest 
taken in the matter by the members. The Secretary also made 
a few remarks on this subject, in which he stated that it was 
impossible for one or two members of the association to obtain 
any legislation alone; he also stated that where a legislator had 
been interviewed by a veterinarian from his district he invari¬ 
ably proved a friend to any bill introduced by the profession. 
Under the head of Application for Membership, the Secre¬ 
tary presented the name of C. L. Megowan. The name was 
referred to the Board of Examiners. 
Under the head of Admission of New Members, the follow¬ 
ing gentlemen were elected : Drs. J. R. Shaw, A. B. Wise, J. 
A. Edmons, J. J. Streets, W. B. Schoclde, J. W. O’Rourke, S. 
A. Withers, J. A. Withers and E. J. Creely. 
Under the head of New Business, Dr. Wadams moved that 
the thanks of the association be tendered Assemblyman Berry 
for the great interest he had taken in Assembly Bill 210. Car¬ 
ried. 9 
On motion of the Secretary, a committee consisting of Drs. 
Wadams and Spencer, Sr., were appointed to convey the thanks 
of the association to Assemblyman Berry in a suitable manner. 
The subject matter of sending a delegate to the next meeting 
of the U.S.V.M.A. was brought up by Dr. R. A. Archibald, who 
endeavored to portray to the members the necessity of such 
action on their part; he also stated that it was his opinion that 
il the association evinced sufficient interest in the matter during 
the next two years the U. S. V. M. A. would decide upon Cali¬ 
fornia as the place of meeting in the year 1897. 
Dr. Spencer, Sr., also spoke on this subject in the same strain 
as the Secretary had done. 
The Secretary moved that the association levy an assess- 
