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R. S. HUIDEKOPEK. 
UNITED STATES VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS WORK REVIEWED. 
An address delivered at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Association, 
by ex-President R. S. Huidekoper, V.S. 
Gentlemen. —On reaching the end of another year of the 
life of this Association, during which I have had the honor to 
occupy your President’s chair, I found so little accomplished 
by myself or the Association as a body, that I at first hesita¬ 
ted about referring to it at all, but upon looking back over 
the growth of the Association, I came to the conclusion that 
I could not be too meek, for perhaps I could find something 
that would justify me in having some pride and sharing it 
with my colleagues. 
At least the Association was larger than it had ever been 
before; it has traveled more, its meetings had been held out¬ 
side of New York and Boston. If as a body it had not ad¬ 
vanced anything to startle the world, at least some of its 
members had brought themselves usefully and prominently 
before the public, and we could appropriate some of their re¬ 
flected glory, and shine ourselves. By this time I was lum¬ 
inous with the achievements and dignity of the Society which 
I had the honor to represent. I was a Pharasee on a pin¬ 
nacle, and, imbued with vain-glorious ardor, undertook to 
formulate our acts into words that would be grateful to you 
and satisfying to myself. I know what certain members of 
our body had been doing of credit to themselves and their 
communities, but where was the marked advance that would 
separate the last from all other years, the brilliant discovery 
that would mark one of the cycles of the history of veterin¬ 
ary medicine, the famous book that would adorn all medical 
libraries in the future and be a famous monument to the eru¬ 
dition of its writer? 
My pride had a fall: but undaunted, and knowing, my 
colleagues, that you and I must certainly be scientific, and 
therefore reputable professional men deserving of public 
honor, for does not our Constitution say, after we have 
