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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
Next in order was the lunch, which fortunately did not 
menace the literary part of the programme. 
Election of officers came next, with the following results : 
President—Dr. W. L. Rhoads. 
Vice-President—Dr. J. W. Adams. 
Secretary—Dr. E. M. Ranck. 
Treasurer—Dr. C. J. Marshall. 
Directors—Drs. W. Horace Hoskins, H. P. Eves, A. F. 
Schreiber, B. M. Underhill, and J. D. Houldsworth. 
Promises were given for the preparation of papers from 
Drs. Adams and Harger for the November meeting. 
. A general experience meeting followed, in which every one 
present promised to do the best he could to make this season’s 
meetings successful, after which the meeting adjourned at 
IIP. M. 
The regular monthly meeting of this association was held 
on November 12th, T901, at N. W. corner of Broad and Filbert 
streets, with the following members of the profession in attend¬ 
ance: Drs. Bunting, Carter, Drake, Pffiller, Flood, Gavin, Gor¬ 
man, Kooker, Lintz, Marshall, Hoskins, Pearson, Williams, 
Rhoads, Ridge and Ranck. Also about fifteen students of Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania, Veterinary Department. The minutes 
of previous meeting were read and adopted. • Communications 
were read and acted upon separately, one of which was from one 
of the oldest and most active members, Dr. Jas. B. Rayner, of 
West Chester, who wished to resign, owing to impaired health. 
A motion to accept his resignation was carried, as was also a 
motion to elect him to honorary membership. The rules and 
by-laws having been suspended, he was unanimously elected an 
honorary member. 
A very interesting paper was read by Dr. Bunting, of New 
Jersey, in which he cited numerous cases of failure from the tu¬ 
berculin tests, also a peculiar affection of the heart, which he 
attributed to the tuberculin. This paper elicited a great amount 
of discussion, in which all the members participated, and was 
finally closed by Drs. Pearson and Hoskins. A vote of thanks 
was extended Dr. Bunting by the society for his interesting 
paper. 
The other essayists being unavoidably absent, the Chair 
asked for reports of cases, in which the topic of “ The most hu¬ 
mane and efficient methods of killing animals ” was propounded 
by Dr. Williams. This again brought forth manv different 
