SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
43 
The minutes of the last meeting and special meeting were read, and with 
slight corrections adopted. 
Nominations and election of officers being in order, the following were 
chosen for the ensuing year: 
President—Thos. B. Raynor, V.S. 
1st Vice-President—W. L. Zuill, M.D, D.V.S. 
2d Vice-President—W. H. Knight, V.S. 
3d Vice-President—P. M. Minster, V.S. 
Corresponding Secretary—Alex. Glass, V.S., 2006 Bainbridge Street, Phila¬ 
delphia. 
Recording Secretary—R. Gladfelter, V.S. 
Treasurer—J. C. Fly, V.S. 
Board of Trustees—J. C. Michener, W. Horace Hoskins, James B. Raynor, 
W. S. Hooker, and R. S. Huidekoper. 
A recess being taken, the Board of Trustees convened and recommended for 
membership Dr. C. C. McLean, of Meadville, Pa., a graduate of the Toronto 
College. 
The Committee on Legislation, through Dr. W. Horace Hoskins, reported a 
new bill that had been drawn up, embodying new features. The bill was then 
read and explained, and adopted. 
After some discussion as to the plan to pursue in regard to members who 
had as yet failed to comply with the requirements of the Association, it was de¬ 
cided by a unanimous vote to destroy the certificates of Drs. Jas. McCoart, A. 8. 
Sheimer, C E. Ogden, L. C. Campbell, and A. S. Borneman. 
The meeting then adjourned, to partake of a bountiful lunch provided for 
the members and visitors by courtesy of the Philadelphia members of the Asso¬ 
ciation. 
On reconvening the President announced as a committee on legislation, to 
take up the work of arousing the profession and its friends to the importance of 
this step, this committee to work in harmony with a like one from the Keystone 
Veterinary Medical Association: Drs. W. Horace Hopkins, W. S. Hooker, W. 
L. Zuill, R. S. Huidekoper, C. C. McLean, N. Reckwold, and Jas. B. Raynor. 
The death of Dr. M. W. Birch then being referred to, the President ap¬ 
pointed Drs. T. B. Raynor, W. S. Hooker and W. Horace Hoskins a committee 
to draft appropriate resolutions. 
After kindly referring to the able letter of Prof. Law to the authorities at 
Washington, relative to contagious pleuro-pneumonia, it was unanimously de¬ 
cided to extend him a vote of thanks from this Association. A similar act was 
extended to the Bureau of Animal Industry for their most excellent work. 
Dr. C. C. McLean, of Meadville, then outlined a bill that had been presented 
at Harrisburg, establishing a license for horses used for stud purposes, requiring 
that they be examined for soundness by a qualified veterinary surgeon before 
registration, and giving their owners power to recover by law, after 9 months, the 
fees for service. At this point Dr. Huidekoper referred to the number of prize 
stallions, cattle, etc., in the State who were unsound and blemished and utterly 
unfit for breeding purposes. Dr. Hoskins heartily agreed with the good features 
of the bill, but looked only for it to be a dead letter in great measure, as there 
was no law, moral or statutory, that yet defined for Pennsylvania a qualified 
practitioner of veterinary medicine and surgery. The sense of the bill was ap¬ 
proved by the Association. 
