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CORRESPONDENCE. 
LONG ISLAND VETERINARY SOCIETY. 
A regular meeting of the Long Island Veterinary Society was held on Jan. 
21st, 1891, at No. 74 Adams Street, Brooklyn, the President, Dr. Roscoe R. 
Bell, in the chair. 
The following members were present: Drs. Geo. H. Berns, Roscoe R 
Bell, Geo. F. Bowers, H. Housman, Samuel Atchison, D. S. Breslin, Philip 
Newman and Wm. H. Pendry. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. 
The Board of Censors made no report. 
The next order of business being reading of papers, the Secretary read a 
communication from the essayist, Dr. Geo. G. Vanderveer, stating his inability 
to attend the meeting, but forwarding his paper. 
It was moved and seconded that the communication be received and the 
Secretary read the paper. Carried. 
The paper, entitled “ Leukalmia” was then read.* 
After the reading of the paper it was moved and seconded that the discus¬ 
sion of the paper be postponed until the next meeting. Carried. 
The meeting then adjourned. 
D. S. Bkeslin, D.V.S., Secretary. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
OSTEO POROSIS. 
Editor Review ; I observe a very worthy article in the 
Review on the above disease which reflects credit upon the 
author, Dr. Berns, as an original thinker. That article alone 
is worth a year’s subscription, although it explodes one of my 
theories of thirty years standing. But as I have never had 
the advantage of a veterinary education, but have been obliged 
to pick up here and there along the journey of life through 
practical experience, and to glean from authors of recognized 
standing, information in things pertaining to my occupation, 
doing the best I could and meeting with many reverses, using 
such remedial measures as I found to yield the best results; 
I could not of course expect to compete with the men who 
have had such advantages, and who consequently can locate 
and name every bone, nerve, blood-vessel and tissue of the 
whole body, and detect disease in its incipiency, the time when 
*To be published in the next issue. 
