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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
Gentlemen appointed to prepare papers for our next regular 
meeting: Drs. Black, Mayo, Sihler, Cook and Lemay. 
Meeting adjourned to meet in Topeka, Kan., the second 
Wednesday of February, 1895. 
S. L. Hunter, V.S., Sec. 
THE ONTARIO VETERINARY ASSOCIATION. 
The annual meeting of this association was held in the 
veterinary college, Toronto, Can., on Friday, December 21, 
1894. 
The President, Mr. W. Burns, V.S., opened the meeting 
with a few well-chosen remarks, and called for the reading of 
the reports. 
The secretary’s, registrar’s and auditor’s reports were then 
received and adopted. 
Considerable discussion then ensued on the action of certain 
parties in issuing so-called veterinary dental diplomas. The 
issuing of these was very strongly condemned at the last meet- 
ing, tending as it does, to bring legitimate veterinary science 
into disrepute. 
Reputable members of the veterinary profession consider 
this so-called veterinary dentistry a complete humbug. 
Mr. John Wende, V.S., also a member of the New York 
State Veterinary Association, remarked that that Association 
also very strongly condemned the issuing of these veterinary 
dental diplomas. 
Major Lloyd, Mr. Gibb, Mr. O’Neal, Mr. C. Elliott and 
others took part in this discussion, and it was ultimately resolved 
that the same committee that were appointed last year should 
be continued, and that their efforts should be directed to sup¬ 
press this humbug. 
Mr. W. J. Wilson, of London, V.S., read an excellent paper 
on “The Dangers of Using the Meat and also the Milk of Dis¬ 
eased Animals as Human Food.” He called attention to the 
toxic properties produced by the germ of tuberculosis (the ba¬ 
cillus tuberculosis) being especially injurious to consumptive 
