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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
NEW YORK STATE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The fourth annual meeting of this Association will be held 
in the assembly rooms of the Vanderbilt House, Syracuse, on 
Tuesday and Wednesday, the 9th and 10th of January, 1894. 
The profession at large is invited. 
VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY. 
The thirtieth regular meeting of the Veterinary Medical 
Association of New Jersey was held in Morristown on Thurs¬ 
day, December 14th, 1893. 
Dr. J. Gerth, the President, being absent, the meeting was 
called to order by Dr. Drummond, of Woodbridge, N. J., 
second Vice-President. On call ol the roll the following 
members answered to their names: Drs. W. B. E. Miller, J. 
W. Hawk, Jas C. Dustan, B. F. King, W. Runge, R. O. Has- 
brouck, R. R. Letts, J. M. Everetts, M. M. Stage, A. W. Ax- 
ford, H. Exton, B. L. Drummond, S. Lockwood, Ira Kilburn, 
Prof. Leonard Pearson. Delegates from Pennsylvania State 
Association, J. W. Stickler, M.D., A. V. Baldwin, M.D., 
G. Swain, M.D., and about twenty visitors—stockgrowers, 
dairymen and farmers, who were interested in the question 
of tuberculosis, which was of special order at this meeting. 
The regular order of business was first gone over, and an 
interesting and instructive paper on “ Influenza in the Horse ” 
was read by Dr. Miller, of Camden. Prof. Pearson read an 
interesting paper on “Tuberculosis, and the Use of Tubercu- 
line in Diagnosing the Disease.” He gave a history of a num¬ 
ber of experiments with the same ; also of a number of ex¬ 
periments on pigs and rabbits. He also spoke of the dangers 
from tuberculosis and the necessity of both State and national 
legislation for this disease. 
Dr. Stickler, of Orange, followed with some very inter¬ 
esting and instructive remarks on the disease, and gave an 
alarming report of the number of deaths from the disease in 
the last ten years in this State, averaging over three thousand 
each year ; he also urged the necessity for better and more 
