SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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The secretary was then requested to read the results of 
the nomination which were as follows : President, Dr. H. 
A. Spencer, San Jose ; vice-president, Dr. Ward B. Rowland, 
Passadena; secretary, Dr. R. A. Archibald, Sacramento • 
treasurer, Dr. D. F. Fox, Sacramento; board of examiners, 
Drs. Maclay, Egan, Orvis, Whittlesey and Rowland ; board 
of directors, the several officers of the Association. 
Dr. Fox moved, seconded by Dr. Orvis, that the newlv 
elected president take his seat. Carried. 
The newly elected president, upon taking his seat, made a 
few appropriate and well-chosen remarks. He thanked the 
members for the great honor they had done him, and 
promised to do all in his power to make the meetings inter¬ 
esting and instructive, and in that way further the interests of 
the Association. 
He deplored the lack of attendance at the meetings and 
said he would leave no stone unturned to bring the members 
of the veterinary profession in the State of California together 
and have them work hand-in-hand for the advancement of the 
profession in this great and glorious State. 
Under the head of “ reading of papers, etc., and discus¬ 
sions,” the secretary was called upon to read a few notes he 
had prepared, his subject being, “ The Excision of the Thyro- 
arytenoidean Ligament and a portion of the Arytenoid Carti¬ 
lage for Roaring.” 
Before reading his esssay, the essayist extended a cordial 
invitation to the members to witness the operation of laryn- 
gotomy as performed by him at 9 A. M. next day. 
The essayist went on to describe his method of perform¬ 
ing the operation ; he also noted the chief differences be¬ 
tween Prof. Fleming’s operation and the operation as 
performed by him. 
The paper was followed by an interesting discussion. 
Dr. Orvis criticised the operation as performed by the 
essayist in every detail; he said he was unwilling at that time 
to admit that the essayist’s method was preferable to the 
Fleming method. He said he had performed the Fleming 
operation and had failed to find any of the bad results men- 
