754 : 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
There were present at the opening or during the session, Drs. Knowles, 
Thompson, Diggs, Macaulay, Roberts, Culbert, Bell, Shaffer, Ferling and 
Rodgers. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved, and after the 
transaction of preliminary business the election of officers for the ensuing year 
took place, resulting as follows: President, Dr. J. Rodgers, of Anderson; First 
Vice-President, Dr. G. Ferling, of Richmond; Second Vice-President, Dr. J. 
Culbert, of Portland ; Third Vice-President, Dr. G. Buckner, of Rockville ; 
Secretary, Dr. H. Macaulay, of Indianapolis; Treasurer, Dr. E. Diggs, of 
Winchester. 
The newly elected President, Dr. J. Rodgers, now took the chair, and the 
first paper of the meeting was read by Dr. E. Diggs, on Rheumatism, which was 
followed by a spirited discussion.* 
The meeting then adjourned until nine o’clock the following morning, when 
it was called to order, the President, Dr. Rodgers, in the chair. 
Dr. Macaulay then read his paper on ‘ ‘ Counter-irritation versus Cold Ap¬ 
plications in Pneumonia.”* 
After a spirited discussion of Dr. Macauley’s paper the meeting adjourned 
for dinner and met at 1:30 p.m. 
Dr. Knowles in a short address moved, seconded by Dr. Thompson, that 
the following resolutions be passed: 
Resolved , That Dr. F. S. Billings be made an honorary member of this As¬ 
sociation. 
Resolved , That it is the sense of the Indiana Association of Veterinary Grad¬ 
uates that the investigations of Dr. F. S. Billings in contagious and infectious 
animal d'seases have been the only investigations of merit made in these United 
States. And be it further 
Resolved , That we feel indebted to Dr. Billings and the State of Nebraska 
for these investigations. And be it further 
Resolved , That since the State of Nebraska had Dr. Billings in her employ 
at the time these investigations were made, and that iu our belief Dr. Billings 
can give the agricultural and scientific world farther enlightenment on infectious 
and contagious diseases, we therefore request the State of Nebraska to re-employ 
Dr. Billiugs for said investigations. And be it further 
Resolved , That a copy of these resolutions be sent to Dr. Billings and to the 
State University of Nebraska, and that they be spread on the minute book of 
this Association. 
These resolutions were passed unanimously, and it was just at this moment 
Dr. Macaulay arrived, and at the request of Dr. Knowles the President read the 
resolutions over for his benefit. 
Dr. Macaulay was sorry he had been detained so as to have been unable to 
be present when these resolutions had been moved, as he considered it was 
something with which we, as a society, should have had nothing to do. He 
understood that Dr. Billings’ views on many subjects were at variance with a 
majority of our leading veterinarians, and by siding with Dr. Billings in this 
case we were making ourselves antagonistic to them. If any such set of resolu¬ 
tions were to have come before the Association he believed they, the members, 
*See original artiples of this issue. 
