SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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fort has been made to carry out all the instructions given by 
the association at its meeting - held in Detroit, and to promptly 
conduct the correspondence, giving each member of the several 
committees appointed official notice of his appointment, and per¬ 
fecting the membership of the large number of applicants elected 
at the last meeting. An unusually large number of letters have 
been sent and received during the year, and throughout most 
cordial relations have been maintained. 
I. nder direction of President Dr. Tait Butler, letters creden¬ 
tial were issued to Prof. A. Liautard and Dr. W. H. Wray, as 
delegates to the British Congress on Tuberculosis, held in Lon¬ 
don, July last. Prof. A. Liautard, of Paris, France, and Prof. 
Dr. Theodore Kitt, of Bavaria, were notified of their election to 
honorary membership in this association, and letters of acknowl¬ 
edgment of the courtesy duly received and placed on file. 
Resident Secretaries have been unusually active during the 
year, have taken more interest than formerly, which indicates a 
more wide-spread and general interest in the affairs of our as¬ 
sociation, and from the large number of applications for mem¬ 
bership on file, coming from various parts of the United States 
and Canada, it is believed that the influence of the A. V. M. A. 
is recognized as being good and helpful in all parts of the con¬ 
tinent. The fact that printed reports of the proceedings of each 
meeting are promptly placed in the hands of the membership, 
makes each member to feel that he has received something of 
value directly from the association. 
Several letters have been received from veterinarians relative 
to the possibility of a change of date of meeting. Several States 
hold State fairs in the first week in September and the obliga¬ 
tions of State veterinarians, and also local veterinarians, are such 
that they cannot leave the State at this time, and the question 
is presented as to whether or not this association might not 
profitably advance the date of meeting to some time in the 
month of August. I would specifically mention that the States 
of Iowa and Nebraska hold their annual fairs on the same date 
fixed for our meetings. The State Veterinarians and Experi¬ 
ment Station men find it impracticable to leave their States on 
this date. True it is that no date could be fixed upon which 
would not inconvenience some, but it is doubtless worth the 
association’s while to consider the feasibility of a change 
of date. 
Notwithstanding the large expenditures incurred during the 
past year, the funds of the association will permit of the prompt 
