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EDITORIALS. 
The second day (the 19th) was occupied with the reports of 
the Committee on Congress of Colleges, on the Act of In¬ 
corporation, and on revision of the Constitution and By-Laws, 
with that of the nomenclature of swine diseases and hog 
cholera. 
It is certainly necessary that a complete stenographic report 
of the work of those various committees should be in hand in 
order to be able to criticise them; to accept their views and con¬ 
sider their plans and' suggestions. No doubt it will give us 
pleasure to refer to them later on. 
The election of officers was carried on according to the new 
amended by-laws, giving us a somewhat larger number of offi¬ 
cers. The newly elected members being Dr. W. H. Hoskins, 
re-elected president; for vice-presidents, Dr. J. F. Winchester, 
T. J. Turner and W. L. Williams ; for secretary, Dr. L. Pearson; 
for treasurer, Dr. J. L. Robertson. 
The paper of “ Neurotomy,” by Prof. S. J. Harger, was most 
interesting, as were those of the Committee on Tuberculosis, 
which were presented by Drs. J. Faust, Leonard Parson and 
Trumbower. 
The paper of Dr. Edward L. Williams on the “Peculiarities 
of the Diseases of the Rocky Mountain Regions,” gave rise to 
considerable discussion. 
The meeting adjourned for a visit to the Veterinary Depart¬ 
ment of the University of Pennsylvania and to the Zoological 
Garden, and afterwards the association met at the Colonnade 
Hotel, where they partook of the kind and friendly hospitality 
of our bretherns of the great Quaker City. 
In brief, such is what we can say of the 31st meeting of the 
U. S. V. M. A. Peculiar conditions, our unavoidable absence 
from the meeting when we felt we ought to have been present, 
prevents us from considering it more for the present, and all that 
we may well say is, that from what we have seen, the 31st meet¬ 
ing- of the U. S. V. M. A. has been a success, and that those 
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who were present will always remember the brotherly reception 
offered by the veterinarians of the Pennsylvania Society. 
