SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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ence with a number of Western members showed they were 
heartily in favor of holding the meeting in Iowa. 
The Association, acting on this report, decided to take 
active measures to secure the meeting, and appointed a com¬ 
mittee of three to undertake the work. An assessment of 
$2.50 each was levied, to constitute an entertainment fund in 
case the meeting should be secured and the money needed. 
Under the head of new business several interesting ques¬ 
tions were discussed, and as suggested in President’s address, 
committees on sanitation, publications, army legislation, and to 
consider advisability of preparing articles for the agricultural 
press, were appointed. Notice of an amendment to the con¬ 
stitution, raising requirements for membership as high as those 
of the Missouri State Veterinary Medical Association, to be 
acted upon at next meeting, was given. 
The consideration of the above consumed the time of the 
morning and afternoon sessions. At the evening session, be¬ 
ginning at 8 P. M., two valuable papers were read, one on 
“ Meat Inspection at the Abattoirs,” by Dr. S. Stewart, Govern¬ 
ment Meat Inspector of Kansas City, and the other by Dr. G. A. 
Johnson, City Meat Inspector of Sioux City, on “ Meat Inspec¬ 
tion at the City Market.” 
Dr. Stewart’s paper was illustrated by stereopticon views, 
and described fully the character of Government meat inspec¬ 
tion. The kind of diseased meats most frequently encountered 
was emphasized- and many other points of importance touched 
upon. This paper was both interesting and instructive, and 
shed much light on a subject at present little understood by a 
majority of American veterinarians. 
Dr. Johnson’s paper was also a valuable contribution to 
sanitary literature. It gave the ordinance of Sioux City pro¬ 
viding for the inspection of meats and fruits, etc., and mentioned 
the utter impossibility of the ordinance being carried out to the 
letter, and gave the modus operandi as carried out by the 
writer. An opinion as to what city inspection should consist of 
was also given. 
