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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
read a paper on the organization and growth of the Associa 
tion. Dr. Runge reported on the result of a trip to Cumber 
land County in search of anthrax, and had specimens and i 
microscope on hand for the benefit of the members. 
After Dr. Gerth had read an interesting paper on mea* 
inspection, the meeting adjourned at two o’clock in the after 
noon for dinner. 
It was reconvened at 3:40 o’clock, and Dr. Gerth’s pape] 
was discussed at length by Drs. Runge, Dustan, Everett 
Hawk and King. 
On motion of Dr. Hawk, a committee of three was appointee 
to investigate the manner in which the money was spent whief 
was appropriated by the State for the stamping out of tuber 
culosis in New Jersey by a commission of the State Agaicul 
tural Board. 
Drs. L. P. Hurley, W. B. E. Miller and William Gall wen 
named as the essayists for the next meeting. The meeting 
adjourned to come together in April. 
S. Lockwood, Secretary. 
MONTREAL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
A meeting of the Montreal Veterinary Medical Associa 
tion was held on Oct. 24th, 1895, in the Library of the Faculty 
of Comparative Medicine. There was a large attendance oi 
members and visitors, among the latter being Dr. Miller, o: 
Burlington, Vt. The minutes of the last meeting were reac 
and approved. 
The president introduced Dr. Miller, a graduate of ’87 
who presented a paper on the “ Control of anthrax bv attenu 
ated germ products.” He detailed the results of his experi 
ments with anthrax vaccine upon a herd of cattle in the 
vicinity of Burlington. The infected area had not been free 
from the disease for twenty years. When called profession 
ally to the herd in question ten animals had already died, anc 
before the vaccine could be procured, four others had sue 
cumbed. 
To produce immunity two inoculations are required, the 
