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profession, lie having graduated with distinction at the Imperial Veterinary 
School at Alfort, France. 
The Board of Censors reported favorably on the application of Dr. W. H. 
Mook, of Metuchen, and he was unanimously elected to membership. The other 
applicants, not being graduates, were rejected. 
Many letters of encouragement had been received by Dr. Lowe from emi¬ 
nent veterinarians, at home and abroad. Letters from the following gentlemen 
were read amid enthusiasm : 
Professor Liautard, Dean of the American Veterinary College; Prof. Mc- 
Eachran, Principal of the Montreal Veterinary College; Prof. Chas. P. Lyman, 
of the Veterinary Department of Harvard University; Prof. James Law, of Cor¬ 
nell University; Prof. Huidekoper, of the Veterinary Department of the Univer¬ 
sity of Pennsylvania ; Prof. James L. Robertson, of the American Veterinary 
College; Prof. A. H. Baker, of the Chicago Veterinary College ; Dr. Ezra M. 
Hunt, Secretary of the New Jersey State Board of Health; Prof. Chas. B. 
Michener, of the American Veterinary College; Dr. George Fleming, of London, 
England, and others. 
An able address was delivered by President Corlies on the recent equine 
epidemic in New Jersey. While he admitted that isolated cases of spinal menin¬ 
gitis occurred in different parts of the State, yet he considered that it was a mis¬ 
nomer to apply this term to the recent outbreak. He did not think that there 
was any name for it that was comprehensive, consequently he had coined a name 
himself—“ carbo-hsemia.” The Doctor claimed that the disease was due to an 
excess of carbonic acid generated in the system—that the blood was not oxygen_ 
ized. He had made two post-mortem examinations, and found the blood of a 
veinous character, intensely black, with ante-mortem heart clots, together with 
other marked lesions of like character. There were no traces of lesions of the 
brain or spinal cord. 
Dr. Corlies’ remarks led to a prolonged, but beneficial, discussion on differ¬ 
ential diagnosis between spinal meningitis, typhoid influenza, and carbo-haemia, 
in which Drs. Nayler, Mook, Sherk, Krowl, Vogt, Mercer, Satter, De Clyne and 
Lowe took part. So much interest v as taken and clinical experience related, that 
some of those present thought that the time had been better occupied than if they 
had listened to an elaborate essay. 
The subject of veterinary legislation again received a due amount of atten¬ 
tion, and it was the sense of the meeting that the proposed bill to regulate the 
practice of veterinary medicine and surgery should be modified and so drafted 
that both classes of practitioners would be allowed to register—the graduates as 
“Regular Practitioners,” and the non-graduates as “ Existing Practitioners,” but 
that the time of allowing the latter class to register would be limited to six 
months after the passage of the act. While by this method all those who have 
assumed the right and are practicing for a livelihood would be allowed to regis¬ 
ter and continue such practice, provided they registered within the specified 
time, yet it made a distinction between the educated veterinarian and the empiric. 
At the end of the six months a complete register of all those non-graduates who 
shall have availed themselves of the opportunity could be obtained, and after that 
time only graduates could register, and no new name could be added to the regis- 
