25G 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, U. S. COLLEGE OF VETER¬ 
INARY SURGEONS. 
The seventeenth annual meeting of the Alumni Association 
of the U. S. College of Veterinary Surgeons of Washington, 
D. C., was called to order Saturday evening, April 13, 1912, 
with Dr. H. S. Gamble, J o8, in the chair. After a very brief 
business meeting, the following officers were elected for the en¬ 
suing year: Dr. W. S. Pollard, ’06, of Baltimore, Md., Presi¬ 
dent; Dr. R. W. Summers, ’01, of Buffalo, N. Y., Vice-Presi¬ 
dent, and Dr. Charles M. Mansfield, ’07, Secretary and Treasurer. 
A motion was made and carried to elect this officer for three 
years instead of one as previously done; this would give the 
secretary a better opportunity to acquaint himself with his of¬ 
fice and the alumni. Dr. Adolph Eichhorn, Senior Bacteriolo¬ 
gist of the Bureau of Animal Industry, gave an exceedingly in¬ 
teresting and illustrated talk on Biological Progress in the Veter¬ 
inary Profession. This talk was very instructive and greatly 
appreciated. Dr. Mann Page Smith demonstrated by operation 
the Obliteration of the Lateral Ventricle of the Larynx for the 
relief of roaring. In this operation he revealed the latest opera¬ 
tive technique, using the “ Ventricular Burr.” This operation is 
very simple when compared with others for relief of the same 
condition. The animal was anesthetized by injections of chloral 
hydrate into peritoneal cavity. The operation proper took four 
minutes. A light buffet supper was served afterwards, at which 
time many of the alumni met and renewed their acquaintances of 
student days. The meeting was a most successful occasion, 
there being over seventy-five graduate members present from 
different parts of the country. 
C. M. Mansfield, Secretary-Treasurer. 
COMMITTEE ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES, MISSOURI 
VALLEY VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSO¬ 
CIATION (JULY, 1911). 
By George H. Glover, Chairman. 
There has never been a uniform method of making reports in 
committees like this. It seems to me that other members of the 
committee should make early report to the chairman and the 
chairman give a digest of these reports, bringing out the salient 
features, with the prime object in view of giving a comprehen¬ 
sive but practical statement of disease conditions in the territory 
