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OBITUARY. 
Jer&ey City, 1st Vice-President; Dr. W. H. Muck, of Metuclien, 2nd Vice- 
President ; Dr. Chas. Kuehne, of Jersey City, was re-elected Secretary; Dr. A. 
H. McIntosh, of Jersey City, Treasurer; Dr. W. H. Lowe, of Paterson, Dr. E. 
R. Voorhees, of Plainfield, Dr. J. C. Corlies, of Newark, Dr. E. R. Mercer, of 
Montclair, and Dr. James McCaffrey, of Red Bank, were elected as the Board 
of Censors. 
Dr. J. Hopkins, of Newark, Dr. W. Dimond, of Jersey City, and Dr. James 
McCaffery, of Red Bank, were elected as members. 
Dr. E. L. Loblein, of NewBrunswick, read a paper on “ Tuberculosis” 
which was followed by a lively discussion. 
The next meeting will be held at Trenton next February. 
The meeting adjourned and was followed by a banquet. 
Chas. Kuehne, Ph.G., D.V.S., Secretary. 
OBITUARY. 
Died, at West Newton, Mass., July 29th, Dr. Elisha F. 
Thayer, aged 73 years, 6 months and 27 days. 
Elisha F. Thayer was born at Dedham, Mass., in Decem¬ 
ber, 1815 ; his father was a practising physician, and for many 
years held the office of postmaster. 
The subject of this sketch was from his early years thor¬ 
oughly in accord with the animal kingdom, and filled with 
that love for the domestic animals which never left him to 
the day of his last sickness, even mindful and anxious lor the 
welfare of a favorite animal long after the infirmities of age 
and disease had made such attentions on his part painful and 
distressing, and to this natural aptitude may be ascribed 
much of the success of his practice. 
About 1850, Dr. Thayer began to ride and study with Dr. 
Charles Wood, of Boston, who at that time was one of the 
most noted veterinarians of that city. He continued riding 
with Dr. Wood and practising himself until 1853, when he 
went abroad to study, spending his time at London and Glas¬ 
gow, at the latter place being a special student of the cele¬ 
brated Gamgee. 
He spent some months there, and on his return home en¬ 
tered again into practice, to give it up only when disease had 
made such inroads on an otherwise robust and vigorous con¬ 
stitution. 
It was the lot of Dr. Thayer, and through him the veteri- 
