SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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Veterinary practice established five years in city of forty-five thousand (45.000) 
in farming country. Only one other veterinary within one huudred and ten miles. 
Good climate, good schools, etc., etc. 
Easy terms. For particulars, etc., apply, 
Dr. Poe, 
Knoxville, Tenn. 
SITUATION WANTED. 
Veterinary surgeon, graduate in Europe, best references, author of zootechnical 
and medical works, wishes to find a situation in a veterinary institute, in a breeding 
•establishment, or any other place. Speaks French, German and English languages. 
Apply, Dr. Goebbels, V.S., 
Egg Harbor City, N. Y. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
MASSACHUSETTS VETERINARY ASSOCIATION. 
The regular meeting of the Massachusetts Veterinary Asso¬ 
ciation was held at 19 Boylston Place, on January 24th, 1894, at 
7.30 P.M. 
The President, Dr. Burr, occupied the chair. The members 
present were Drs. Becket, Blackwood, Burr, Emerson, Towle, 
Howard, Marshal, Parker, Simpson, Winchester and Winslow. 
Honorary member, Dr. Stickney. 
Tne minutes of last meeting were then read and accepted, 
and there being no business before the association, and the regu¬ 
lar essayist not having arrived, Dr. Parker read a paper on “The 
Prevention of Tuberculosis.” 
In the discussion which followed Dr. Winchester suggested 
that the association have taken steps to have tuberculosis placed 
on the list of contagious diseases. It is generally accepted that 
there is no other disease which causes so many deaths as tuber¬ 
culosis in its various forms. As showing the value of of sanitary 
reform, he referred to the towns in the Merrimack Valley. 
These towns use the river water for public services. Through 
the exertions of one of the members of the State Board of Health, 
a filtering gallery for river water was put in at the City of Law- 
