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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
Committee on Intelligence and Education, made a very suggestive commentary 
on the various movements throughout the veterinary world, and what should be 
the duty and work of this Association. The report was received and referred to 
the Publication Committee. 
Dr. Clements, Chairman of the Committee on Contagious and Infectious Dis¬ 
eases, made a voluminous report on the extent of these diseases in the United 
States, touching upon the whole category in a very suggestive manner. He urged 
the dropping of the terms contagious as appliable to a certain line of disease, and 
the substitution of the word miasmatic. 
The Committee on Revision of the Constitution and By-laws offered the 
result of their work, making a complete remodeling of the old plan and after a 
few alterations it was adopted and ordered printed. 
There were fifteen applicants for membership, and the names of Prof. J. 
H. Raymond, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Prof. H. M. Biggs, New York City, offered 
for honorary membership. 
At 1 p. m. the Association adjourned for one hour to partake of a lunch gener. 
ously prepared for the Association by the Long Island Veterinary Medical Asso¬ 
ciation. 
The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted in the following choice: 
President—Dr. C. B. Michener, New York City ; Vice-President—Dr. A. W. 
Clements, Baltimore, Md. ; Secretary—Dr. W. Horace Hoskins, 12 South 37th 
street, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Treasurer — Dr. Jas. L. Robertson, New York City. 
The newly elected officers were then escorted to their chairs, and, on retiring 
from the chair of President, Professor Huidekoper gave one of the most thorough 
reviews of the twenty-five years’ work of the Association that has ever been pre¬ 
pared. He did not believe that the work of representing the profession in the 
United States had been as fully performed as the responsibility demanded, neither 
did he think that the field had been properly covered or the national question of 
importance to the veterinary world so handled as to make the Association a force 
and power in the country. His resunffi bristled with just criticism, and its study 
and consideration by each member should be weighed, and better results will be 
brought forth in the next quarter of a century. 
Dr. Michener then accepted the honor placed upon him in fitting words, 
pledging his untiring efforts in promoting the welfare of the Association and the 
betterment of the profession. 
The President appointed Drs. Winchester, Howard and Stickney a committee 
to draft suitable resolutions on the deaths of our late members, Dr. E. F. Thayer, 
Newton, Mass., Dr. Chas. L Moulton, Washington, D. C. 
Dr. C. P. Lyman offered the resolution for the establishment of a central 
legalized body of veterinarians iu this Association. The matter was referred to 
a special committee, consisting of members Lyman, Huidekoper and Jas. L. 
Robertson, to report at the next meeting. 
Dr. Faust had an ably prepared paper on veterinary history of the different 
ages, but the lateness of the hour compelled its incomplete reading, and, on mo¬ 
tion, it was referred to the Publication Committee. 
The future meetings of the Association will be but once a year, and will be 
for two or more days in September, which new feature promises a wider range of 
better work for the profession. 
The meeting adjourned at 7 p. m. to partake of one the most sumptuous 
banquets of good things, enriched and enlivened by a list of toasts, responded to 
by Prof. Raymond, Drs. R. S. Huidekoper, Stickney, Hoskins, Michener, Berns, 
Hon. Harry A. Moore, and others, well and wisely directed by the popular and 
genial toast-master, Dr. W. B. E. Miller, after which, to the strains of pleasant 
music, the banqueters separated, voting it one of the most important and success¬ 
ful meetings in the history of the Association, and highly complimentary of the 
untiring zeal and energy of the local committee of arrangements of the Long 
Island Veterinary Medical Association. 
W. Horace Hoskins, Secretary. 
