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made, and among them the future plan, now explicit and con¬ 
cise, of collecting the initiation fees and dues, and one year’s 
enforcement of the new rules will rid the Association of all 
dead wood and leave only an interested and working body of 
members, the only ones it has room for. 
President Huidekoper’s review of twenty-five years’ work 
of our Association was a valuable and suggestive contribu¬ 
tion, and should be printed and placed before every member 
of the Association. It should be studied and reread, so that 
where our Association has lacked in duty and proper work, 
each member may find therein where he individually has 
failed to do his duty. I would commend it to each member, 
and trust that they will critically examine it and sum up 
how much he has done as a member for the general welfare 
of the calling he represents through the United States Veter¬ 
inary Medical Association. And I would say one word for 
the ex-President: Had he done nothing else than the compila¬ 
tion of this review, he deserves our generous compliments for 
this; but during his membership and during his official per¬ 
iod he has well and truly considered the welfare of the Asso¬ 
ciation he presided over, and there were no hours or time 
that its needs could not command a hearing or aid in the 
completion of its work. He surely retires from the office 
worthy of our sincere thanks, and leaves its affairs better than 
he found them. 
The report of Chairman Coates of the Committee on Intel¬ 
ligence and Education is well worthy of a wider circulation, 
and I hope to hear of its publication before many months. 
It has rich food for the winter evenings’ consideration, and 
no minds are so dwarfed to the narrow or sordid aims of his 
profession but what will be pierced with a broader light after 
a perusal of his well considered and timely measured words. 
Let the Association direct its issue for circulation among its 
members. 
From Chairman Clements, of the Committee on Contag¬ 
ious and Infectious Diseases, was a more or less complete re¬ 
port on our whole country, as to the prevalence and extent 
of this whole line of diseases, and what it lacks in complete- 
