REPORT OF PRIZE COMMITTEE. 
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erinarians of the Counties of New York and Kings are liable 
to be called to serve as jurors. 
This is an unfortunate state of affairs, which will oblige us 
to ask of Dr. O’Shea another effort, which we are sure he will 
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gladly make, so as to place all of us equal before the law. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
REPORT OF PRIZE COMMITTEE. 
Dr. Tait Butler, Chairman. 
To the President and Members of the U. S. Vet . Med . Association : 
Gentlemen :—As the chairman of your Committee on 
Prizes, I beg leave to submit the following report: This 
report is entirely my own, as the only other member of the 
committee, through a misunderstanding of my own, has not 
been consulted in regard to it. 
In order to make clear the recommendations of the report, 
I beg leave, with your permission, to read an extract from the 
published report of the proceedings of this association for 
1893, and to give a brief history of the “ Prizes” offered by 
the association. 
Now, as you have heard, this prize has been held out to 
the young men of the association for more than ten years. 
It has been during most of that time worth from $100 to $150 
in plate or cash, at the option of the winner. This in my 
judgment is a sufficiently large prize to stimulate the efforts 
of the younger members of the profession to a marked extent, 
and would, I believe, have done so, had it not been for a few 
unfortunate occurrences during the early history of the prize. 
In 1886 your humble servant was one of two who competed 
for the prize. This, I believe, was the first contest. Right 
here began the trouble which, in my judgment, finally resulted 
in the prize falling into disrepute. When the result of this 
contest was announced one of our veterinary journals assured 
us that there was considerable disappointment to a large num¬ 
ber present in the fact that the winner was neither a graduate 
