SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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U. S. Army; Vice-President, Dr. Frank C. Gearhart, Chief of 
the Division of Animal Husbandry, Bureau of Agriculture; 
Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. Alvin Broerman, Instructor in Anat¬ 
omy, College of Veterinary Science, University of the Philip¬ 
pines. 
The members of the association present were: Drs. A. R. 
Ward, Joseph Jefferes, W. P. Hill, A. H. Stancliffe, W. H. 
Boynton, F. W. Wood, J. L. Gross, Victor Buencamino, G. S. 
Baker, W. J. Palmer, H. E. Trawver, Chas. H. Decker, A. D. 
Miller, W. K. Howard, Ray C. Porter, W. A. Kliphardt, C. C. 
Middleton, D. B. Palmer, James Hill, H. H. Ladson, J. R. 
Burns, A. H. Julien, Alvin Broerman, T. T. Hartman, and D. 
C. Kretzer. 
It was unanimously decided to give a banquet at the Hotel 
de Francia at 7.30 o’clock Friday evening, February 9, 1912. 
There being no further business to come before the association, 
the meeting adjourned to convene at the call of the president. 
The banquet was held as arranged, and was attended by 
about twenty-five veterinarians and the majority of the technical 
force of the Bureau of Agriculture. After an enjoyable dinner 
the following speakers were introduced in a few appropriate and 
well-chosen words by the toastmaster, Dr. W. P. Hill, Veter¬ 
inarian, First Field Artillery, U. S. Army. 
The first speaker was Mr. F. W. Taylor, Director of Agri¬ 
culture, who spoke at some length in a more or less humorous 
vein, but incidentally referred to the benefits that result from 
bringing together, under the circumstances, of the personnel of 
the bureau, and intimated that he was in favor of such affairs 
annually, if not semi-annually, for the mutual exchange of scien¬ 
tific ideas. 
The second speaker was Dr. Archibald R. Ward, president 
of the association, and Chief Veterinarian, Bureau of Agricul¬ 
ture, who stated that a winning fight is being made against rin¬ 
derpest, and that the number of infected municipalities at the 
end of the last fiscal year (June 30, 1911, has been reduced from 
eighty to twenty-eight at the present time, and that now no case 
of the disease is known to exist in the Archipelago outside the 
Island of Luzon. 
Dr. Ward read a letter, “ A Sure Cure for the Grouch,” from 
Dr. P. H. Burnett, one of the members of the association wfio 
is on special detail at Pnom-Penh, Cambodia, Indo-China. The 
author of these lines has “ done time ” in Indo-China, and can 
