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Twenty-fifth Semi-Annual .— Was held at the rooms of the 
Medico-Chirurgical Faculty, Baltimore, Md., on March 20th, 
1888. Again nearly half a hundred members answered to the 
roll call. Twenty-three members were admitted. 
A resolution was adopted expressing confidence in the 
work of the Bureau of Animal Industry, and protesting against 
the passage by Congress of the Palmer Bill. Dr. Salmon pre¬ 
sented a paper on “ Hog Cholera,” and another on the “ Med¬ 
iate Contagion of Contagious Pleuro-Pneumonia.” Dr. Cle¬ 
ment presented a paper on the “ Pathology of Contagious 
Pleuro-Pneumonia,” which was richly illustrated by a large 
collection of specimens, fresh and preserved, of the disease. 
Twenty-fifth Animal Meeting .—Was held at the Rossmore 
Hotel, September 18th, 1888. Thirteen new members were 
admitted. 
The following officers were chosen for the ensuing year: 
President, Dr. Huidekoper; Vice-President, Dr. Dixon ; Sec¬ 
retary, Dr. Hoskins; Treasurer, Dr. Robertson; Censors, 
Drs. Zuill, Rose, Winchester, Wray, Howard, Clements and 
McLean. 
Dr. Huidekoper presented a paper on the “ Origin of the 
Domestication of the Horse.” After a discussion on bovine 
tuberculosis a committee was ordered to draft resolutions in 
regard to the contagiousness of this disease to man, and to 
present them to the Medical Congress then in session at 
Washington. Dr. J. C. Myers, Sr., gave an account of the 
disease known as “ Mad Itch in Cattle.” 
This completed the work of a quarter century. The meet¬ 
ings were always pleasant affairs socially, and whatever might 
have been the divergence of opinions during the day, and 
they have often been so great as to become personal, the even¬ 
ing re-united all present, and we learned to know each other 
and to fill the want of professional friendship which is felt by 
many who stand alone in new localities. Some meetings were 
replete with papers, and it is to be regretted that we have not 
a record of many of the transactions. Other meetings, and 
there are unfortunately many of them, have been devoid of 
any public interest, either from lack of proper sense of duty 
