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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
a committee of one to ascertain from each other if it is not possi¬ 
ble to revive interest in State Veterinary Medical Association 
matters, and, furthermore, that the place for the next quarterly 
meeting of this association be held open until answers were re¬ 
ceived from Southern California and in the event of said 
answers being favorable that the next quarterly meeting be held 
in the city of Los Angeles.” Carried. 
Dr. Spencer further requested the members present to pledge 
themselves, in the event of favorable replies from Southern 
California, to attend the Los Angeles meeting, which was done 
by all present. 
Under “ Reading of Papers, etc., and Discussion,” the regu¬ 
lar order was suspended to allow the etc., to precede the reading 
of papers. The etc. consisted of a complete dinner for each 
member and guest present. Dinner from cocktail to nuts and 
coffee, with frequent administrations of wines of various colors 
and brew. The guest of honor and toastmaster, Hon. Klwood 
Bruner, ex-member of the Legislature, in his very able manner 
reviewed the early history of this association and told of how 
proud he was to have been the champion of the veterinarians in 
the Legislature of 1891, and the pleasure it would give him to 
champion their cause at any and all times. The possibilities 
presented to the veterinarians of to-day in guarding the health 
of the people of the commonwealth, was ever expanding and 
that the people were rapidly learning to look to the veterinarian 
for protection. 
Doctors Spencer and Blemer replied to Mr. Bruner, thanking 
him warmly for his past and present interest in the association 
and the veterinary profession. Dr. McCollum, in speaking of 
the veterinarian as a sanitarian recalled many cases in which 
the veterinarian had been of inestimable service to the health 
of the people, and reviewed the work inaugurated and carried 
out under the direction of veterinarians, that of the testing and 
destruction of tuberculous cattle. A most interesting discussion 
was the result of the Doctor’s talk, especially the proper statu¬ 
tory laws under which this disease (tuberculosis) could be prop¬ 
erly controlled, and the destruction of tubercular germs in beef. 
Dr. James Sullivan was to have presented a paper on “Prophy¬ 
laxis,” but stated that owing to pressure of business he was un¬ 
able to prepare the same. 
Dr. F. E. Twining, veterinary bacteriologist of Fresno, Cal., 
spoke on several subjects, particularly regarding the use of hog- 
cholera serum as prepared by himself, and the good results ob- 
