62 CENTRAL VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
Mr. Joseph Woodger, sen., reported several instances of a like 
nature, in which the reproduction of nerve-sub stance was un¬ 
questionable. He had generally found the substance, which had 
formed between the divided ends of the abscised nerve, to be 
greatly enlarged and always sensitive. After removal the animal 
again became sound. 
Mr. W. Hunting said that he thought the reproduction of true 
nerve-substance was no longer a question of doubt, and referred 
to an instance where, in the removal of a tumour from the thigh 
or buttock of a man, paralysis followed; but, in the process of 
time, the use of the limb was again complete. Prom this it was 
decided that a portion of the nerve had been removed with the 
tumour, by which the power of movement was lost; but by sub¬ 
sequent reproduction of nerve-substance, function was always 
restored. 
The subject was kept before the meeting for a considerable 
time and thoroughly discussed; and the decision was general that 
nerve-substance, notwithstanding the previous teachings to the 
contrary, is frequently reproduced, and that where portions of a 
nervous trunk have been removed to deprive a diseased part of 
acute sensation and lameness, both are eventually likely to recur 
from that reproduction at a period varying from two to. several 
years. 
MR. FLEMING’S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 
(OFFICIAL REPORT.) 
In assuming, for another year, the honorable and distinguished 
office of President of the Central Veterinary Medical Society, I 
cannot permit the opportunity now offered me to pass, without 
endeavouring to express, as best I can, the intense degree of 
pleasure and pride which I experience in being unanimously re¬ 
elected by you to occupy this chair for a second official period in 
the existence of our young society, and to aid in forwarding your 
aims and noble aspirations in our important department of science. 
I shall always esteem this mark of your confidence in my humble 
abilities as one of the most cherished honours that could be be¬ 
stowed upon me, and especially as I had, and have now, grave 
doubts as to the judiciousness of your selection. 
The position of President of your Society—composed as it is 
of the elite of the profession—must ever be one of those honours 
most to be coveted by any veterinary surgeon who has the welfare 
of his science really at heart. Eschewing all political questions, 
and dealing only with those which are related-to comparative 
pathology, you have combined yourselves in a friendly and laud- 
