SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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that in many of these registries their addresses have never been 
placed with them, and in some one or two instances the name 
of the person registering has not been placed at the top of the 
column; and might we not ask at your hands that each person 
registering will be required to furnish to your office the date of his 
diploma. 
Thanking you for past courtesies, and trusting we are not 
asking too much at your hands, we are respectfully, 
Chas. T. Gcentner, D. V.S., President, 
Bryn Mazur, Pa. 
Walter L. Hart, D.V.S., Secretary, 
No. 1411 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Keystone Veterinary Association. 
Philadelphia, Pa., January p, i8pq. 
Hon J. Sterling Morton. 
Honored Sir: We, the officers and members of the Keystone 
Veterinary Medical Association, have read with very much pleas¬ 
ure and gratification your recommendation to the President, as 
conveyed to the people of the United States through his recent 
message, your desire to base all veterinary appointments in the 
Bureau of Animal Bidustry, over which you preside, upon the 
“merit system,” and the wiping azvay of the “Infamous spoils 
system,” which so often forces upon officers inefficient and incom¬ 
petent men for these places, which are of so much importance. 
We also gratefully acknowledge your recommendations in re¬ 
gard to some method looking toward the extermination of Tuber¬ 
culosis from the milk cattle of our land, and zve pledge you that in 
any way we may assist or serve you our association will be only too 
glad to render to you any aid within its power in carrying out 
these meretorious reeommendations. 
Respectfully yours, 
Chas. T. Gcentner, D. V.S., President, 
Byrn Mawr, Pa. 
Walter L. Hart, D.V.S., Secretary, 
No. 1 qi 1 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
