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our Association, I have to report the receipt of the following 
letter from Washington, dated February nth, 1893, and 
signed by one of the United States Senators : 
“ It is now too late in the session to do anything with any 
new bill in this Congress, but if you have an act of incorporation 
drawn I think there will be no difficulty in getting it through 
Congress at next session. These bills are usually passed with¬ 
out objection. Any good lawyer could draw it for you.” 
I should like to be further instructed by the committee as 
to whether I shall employ a lawyer to draw an act of incor¬ 
poration for us as suggested by the Senator. There seems 
to be some good reason for thinking that Congress will be 
called early in the fall, and if we are to do anything it would 
seem to me that we had better be prepared to advance our 
request there at a very early date. 
As Chairman of the Committee on Prizes, I have to state 
that considerable work has been done, as a result of which, 
and through the kindness of the editors, we have been able 
to publish in the professional journals a notice asking that 
papers be submitted to the committee. 
I am happy to be able to say that the form of this notice 
has finally assumed a shape that seems to be fairly acceptable 
to all those interested. 
No papers have as yet been received. 
Will you kindly bring these matters before the committee 
for me, and advise me of their further desires. 
Yours very truly, 
Charles P. Lyman. 
A letter from Dr. J. F. Winchester, Lawrence, Mass., 
was also read. 
Lawrence, Mass., May 14th, 93. 
Dr. W. Horace Hoskins. 
Dear Doctor :—Yours of the 12th at hand. It will be 
impossible for me to come to New York on the 20th. As to 
the work being done by the committee of which I am Chair¬ 
man, 1 would say that Dr. Wyatt Johnson has promised an 
article on Cornstalk Disease and Contagious Pleuro-Pneu- 
monia of the English. Dr. J. B. Paige will take up the sub¬ 
ject of Tuberculosis. Dr. S. Stewart will attend to the Swine. 
