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A. LIAUTARD. 
At the last semi-annual meeting of our comitia minora 
some members attended at a personal outlay of nearly $100 
each, an expenditure which you should ask of no member. 
The question of making our Association a representative 
body based upon State and local veterinary organization has 
at times been mentioned, and it is respectfully suggested 
that if it is to be attempted the matter should not be long 
delayed. 
Our advanced requirements for membership make it 
impracticable to affiliate with or base our organization upon 
State Associations so long as their requirements for admission 
fall below ours. 
Preferring rather to permit you to proceed with the very 
interesting and extensive programme before you than to 
detain you further, I bid you all a most hearty welcome to 
our Congress, trusting that you will be highly entertained 
and instructed. 
VETERINARY EDUCATION, 
By Dr. A. Liatjtard, Y.M., Chairman.* 
Mr. President and Gentlemen: When at our last 
meeting in Boston I suggested the propriety of having three 
special topics presented for discussion to-day, and when 
among those I named “ Veterinary Education” as one which 
might interest all of us, I was carelessly overlooking the fact 
that in all probability our worthy President would name me 
as one of the committee, and not only has Dr. Williams 
called me to that duty, but he was in his turn careless enough 
to name me Chairman. This is my excuse for rising at this 
moment, ready to do my duty, but also well prepared to ask of 
you the greatest indulgence for the deficiency of my remarks. 
In making the appointment of the Committee, Dr. Wil. 
liams, besides myself, named Prof. C. P. Lyman and Prof. 
Stalker, and upon us the task of considering this vast sub- 
♦Report of the Committee on Veterinary Education read before the] First 
Veterinary Congress of America 
