12S 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
It was decided to hold the next meeting some time in mid¬ 
summer of 1912, preferably during the State Fair at Fargo. 
It is hoped by the Institute Committee that some noted mem¬ 
ber of our profession can be secured for the institute feature 
of the next meeting. 
C. H. Babcock, Secretary. 
COMMITTEE ON 1913 MEETING, A. V. M. A. 
The Committee on the 1913 meeting of the A. V. M. A. 
met at Reisenweber’s, 58th street and the Circle, New York 
City, at 7.30 p. m., January 17, 1912. Members present: Win¬ 
chester, Hoskins, Gill, Berns, Ackerman and Ellis. Absent: A. 
Liautard, W. L. Williams, James L. Robertson, W. Reid Blair 
and W. J. Coates. 
Acting Chairman Dr. J. F. Winchester presided. Commu¬ 
nication from Dr. W. L. Williams was read. Secretary Hoskins 
went over the plans that had been outlined at the previous meet¬ 
ing of the committee. 
The need of dividing up into a series of committees was 
considered, and in order to promote the work in this direction 
it was decided to ask President Brenton to make the following 
additional appointments: Drs. C. E. Clayton, D. W. Cochran, 
T. E. Smith, R. H. Kingston, J. B. Hopper, Thomas Bland, 
W. G. Hollingworth and J. E. Ryder. 
It was decided to recommend that no surgical clinics be held 
in conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary; that the subjects 
considered be major ones of general interest and importance 
to the profession as a whole; that all papers be confined to twenty 
minutes’ reading, with only an added ten minutes by unanimous 
consent; that the morning sessions of the convention be given 
up to papers on general subjects and reports of standing and spe¬ 
cial committees; that the afternoons be given up to sectional 
work and that the vice-presidents be charged with looking after 
these sections and preside at the same to facilitate the work of 
the meeting; that each morning session be opened by a twenty- 
minute address on some special subject and by some prominent 
member of the veterinary or medical profession, or from the 
field of scientific agriculture, State sanitary control work and 
allied subjects; and that the banquet be made the opportunity of 
