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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
the scientific breeding and feeding of Jersey cattle ; who sub¬ 
sequently read a paper on u Parturient Paresis,” and who talked 
like a “ past-master ” in the art when discussing “ dietetics.” 
But this is not the social side, although the last mentioned sub¬ 
ject may bear some relation to it. Shortly after the President had 
delivered his address, a delegation from Pennsylvania arrived in 
the persons of Drs. Leonard Pearson and W. Horace Hoskins. 
As I have elected to narrate the social side, and am leaving all 
the good things that took place within the assembly hall for the 
• Secretary to portray, we must pass over the three hours from 
the time of our arrival at the hotel at io A. M. to i P. M. (de¬ 
voted principally to legislative matters) to adjournment for 
luncheon. At this juncture the guests were invited by the 
President to accompany the members to the dining hall of 
the Trenton House, in which the meeting was held, where, en¬ 
tering a few minutes late, we found about thirty happy looking 
gentlemen seated, and a chair reserved for us at the President’s 
left, Dr. Pearson occupying that at his right. The informal 
and cheerful conversation, after the perplexing questions of the 
morning, did much toward making the hour a pleasant one, and 
preparing the minds for the reception of the good things yet in 
store. At 2 p. m. the meeting reconvened, and from that time 
until five o’clock we enjoyed the excellent papers and discus¬ 
sions presented, when there was a sudden and somewhat pre¬ 
cipitous exit from the assembly hall, the 5.47 train being the 
object of the moment. With one or two exceptions it was 
reached in time, and the social side of the meeting was re¬ 
newed, and informal conversation again resumed by the lit¬ 
tle group which continued to grow less at each station at 
which the train stopped until we reached Jersey City, when 
we found our New York delegation to be all that remained, as 
we stepped aboard the ferryboat, and reflected upon the success 
of the meeting. And right here we will say that had we not 
taken a strong resolution to confine ourself to the social side of 
this meeting, we certainly would have broken out once or twice, 
as our enthusiasm over the literary side would flash up, as our 
thoughts would recall certain things—notably the paper of Dn 
Laddey, member of the “ Public Health Committee ” of the 
Veterinary Medical Association of New Jersey, and probably 
the youngest man in that assembly hall, whose original work 
on the use of the X-ray as an aid in the diagnosis of tuberculosis 
in cattle, illustrated by photographs and radiographs, received 
the commendation and approval of no less an authority than 
