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Resolved, That the secretary be instructed to forward a copy 
of this resolution to the Commissioner on Domestic Animals. 
A bill for flowers for Dr. Kelley’s funeral was presented and 
ordered paid. 
It was voted that Drs. Whitney, Loveland and Bland be 
selected as a committee to draw up resolutions on the death of Dr. 
James H. Kelley, an ex-president of the association. The fol¬ 
lowing resolutions were later presented by the committee. 
Whereas, Divine Providence has called home our professional 
brother and our personal friend Dr. James H. Kelley, one who 
was endeared to every member of this association, now, there¬ 
fore, be it 
Resolved, By The Connecticut Veterinary Medical Associa¬ 
tion : 
In the untimely death of our brother Dr. James H. Kelley, 
stricken down, as he was, in the healthy vigor of a robust and 
noble manhood, at the very zenith of his physical and mental 
powers, as a result of his unfaltering devotion to his duty and 
to the high calling which he had chosen as his profession, his 
passing brings home to his professional brethren a sense of irre¬ 
parable loss, and as an expression of its sorrow and as a per¬ 
manent record for all time to come this association desires to 
place on record its tribute to his life and memory. 
In his social life he was a warm and generous friend. He 
literally and truly loved his fellow men. His heart ever throbbed 
with sympathy for the afflicted and distressed. His purse was 
ever open to relieve those in need and his charity was so broad 
that of him it might be truly said: “ All mankind was his brother.” 
In his social intercourse and companionship with his personal 
friends and professional associates he was a veritable prince. 
None knew better than he the subtle art of genuine hospitality. 
In his religious life he was not prone to voice his convictions. 
To him religion was a sacred personal relation between him and 
his Maker, finding practical expression in the Golden Rule. 
In his professional life he was the devoted servant of his 
avocation. To him the musty tomes of the great veterinary 
authorities were his intellectual companies and in them he found 
the workhouse in which his intellectual aspirations reveled. In 
the treatment of his case he summoned the highest professional 
skill at his command, and his sympathy and commiseration of 
the sick, dumb beast was only excelled by his sympathy for man 
himself. With his professional brothers he was the ideal prac- 
