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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
The tellers were requested to recount the votes as they had 
counted two ballots cast for James B. Rayner to account of 
Thos. B. Rayner, the above being the corrected count of tellers. 
The president then thereupon announced the elected officers 
for the ensuing year: President, Leonard Pearson; First Vice- 
president, W. H. Ridge; Second Vice-president, Thomas B. 
Rayner; Third Vice-president, James A Waugh; Recording 
Secretary, W. G. Benner; Corresponding Secretary, F. S. Allen; 
Treasurer, John R. Hart; Board of Censors, S. J. J. Harger, 
Chairman; J. C. McNeil, W. Horace Hoskins, W. S. Kooker 
and W. L. Zuill. 
Corresponding Secretary Ridge then read the following ap¬ 
plications for membership: Dr. W. A. Shields, V.M.D., Dr. 
Charles Ernest, V.M.D., Prof. John W. Adams, V.M.D., Dr. E. 
S. Moyer, and Dr. James McAnulty; also those which had been 
laid over of Drs. Tomlinson, Cayley and Fox. 
A recess of fifteen minutes was then taken that the Board of 
Trustees might examine into the aforesaid applications. 
The board being prepared to report, the gavel from the 
chair restored order, and the report of trustees was given by 
Prof. Harger, offering a favorable recommendation of Drs. 
Shield, Adams, Ernest, Moyer and McAnulty. Unfavorably 
recommended, Drs. Tomlinson, Fox and Cawley. 
The report of Board of Trustees was favorably received. 
The chair then directed that each applicant favorably re¬ 
ported by the board should be balloted for. A motion pre¬ 
vailed, however, that applicants should be elected singly by 
acclamation. The election of applicants was so conducted, and 
Drs. W. A. Shields, Charles M. Ernest, John W. Adams, James 
McAnulty and E. S. Moyer were elected to membership. The 
president then introduced those of the elected members which 
were present. 
At i o’clock a motion was then entertained to adjourn for 
luncheon at “ Boothby’s Restaurant,” the same being extended 
by the Philadelphia members to all present, who heartily en¬ 
joyed the same. 
