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ing elective officers, shall be appointed by the incoming president to revise the 
Constitution and By-laws of this Association. 
We hope that Drs. W. B. E. Miller and A. W. Clement, 
who presented this resolution, may be appointed on the pro¬ 
posed committee, though we wish them no harm ; but unless 
the necessary consideration and action upon the revision thus 
proposed is to be deferred until after the Association has ob¬ 
tained its act of incorporation as a national organization, we 
are at a loss to see the propriety of such a measure at all. 
The experience of years gone by has taught us that much 
valuable time may be wasted at the meetings where such dis¬ 
cussions are indulged in. Is it necessary to go and renew 
old disputes after so many years in which the Association 
has been in good running order, has prospered as it has, and 
has so grown and increased in importance ? It may be con¬ 
ceded that the present constitution and by-laws have their 
imperfections, but, nevertheless, they leave us all the time of 
the meetings to devote to necessary and useful work. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
REPORT OF THE TUBERCULOSIS COMMITTEE, 
By Dk. A. W. Clement, Y.S., Baltimore, Md. 
A paper read before the First Veterinary Congress of America, 
(U. S. V. M. Association). 
The subject of this communication, Tuberculosis, is now 
universally admitted to be an infectious disease manifested by 
definite clinical symptoms, and characterized by certain 
anatomical changes in the tissues due to a specific micro¬ 
organism known as the tubercle bacillus. 
The first important study of the disease was made in the 
early part of the present century when Boyle and Lrnnnec 
declared tuberculosis to be a separate affection due to the 
deposit of tubercles, a specific product independent of ordi¬ 
nary inflammations. 
