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Secretary Hoskins : In accordance with the authority vested 
in me, I have cast the ballot of this Association, and the following 
have been duly elected as officers of the Association for the en¬ 
suing year: 
For President: Dr. R. S. Huidekoper, of Philadelphia, Pa. 
For Vice-President: Dr. W. L. Williams, of Bloomington, Ill. 
For Secretary : Dr. W. Horace Hoskins, of Philadelphia, Pa. 
For Treasurer: Dr. James L. Robertson, of Hew York. 
President Michener : Gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to 
announce to you that you have chosen your officers for the en¬ 
suing year, and that you have re-elected to the office of President 
Dr. Huidekoper, who, we all know, has served the Association 
well in the past; who, we are sure, has the best interests of the 
Association at heart, and that he is a man who will probably best 
represent the Association during the coming year. 
I thank you very kindly, gentlemen, for having conferred upon 
me the honor of being your presiding officer during the past year, 
and I now very gladly resign in favor of Dr. Fluidekoper, who will 
take the chair. 
President Huidekoper: Gentlemen, I certainly thank you for 
the compliment of my election to this chair. After the ad¬ 
dress of welcome by Dr. Williams this afternoon, President 
Michener, in responding to Dr. Williams, said that we had just 
completed the foundation of the United States Veterinary 
Medical Association. This Association is to-day holding 
its twenty-seventh annual meeting. True, it is a very old Asso¬ 
ciation, but, as Associations grow, its progress has not been too 
slow. For a long time it was, to a great extent, a local organi¬ 
zation. The first meetings were held in Hew York; at that time 
we held two meetings annually. It was only within the last year 
that we commenced to go to other cities than Boston or Hew 
York; then we held a meeting at Philadelphia, and one in Balti¬ 
more. At an early period there was a meeting held at Washing¬ 
ton, and a meeting held in Philadelphia, which, however, were 
accidental. The first meeting attempted to be held in what we 
sometimes call, the West was convened at Cincinnati, but which, 
for various reasons, was not a success. Very few men came to 
