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aid in carrying out the duties of this chair, and for the respect 
you have shown towards it. I ask you now to continue to extend 
to me the same favour and forbearance, and to do your utmost to 
make our Society what it should be—a permanent and influential 
institution among the world-renowned societies of this great 
metropolis. The generations yet unborn will fervently revere 
your memories for the good work you so brilliantly began and 
continued. To live for ourselves alone, or only for our own time, 
is a narrow view of our position. In the words of the poet 
“ So should we live that every hour 
May die, as dies the natural flower, 
A self-reviving thing of power. 
That every thought and every deed 
May hold within itself the seed 
Of future good and future meed.” 
The attention of the meeting was occupied for a considerable 
time afterwards, by the consideration of some observations made 
by Mr. F. J. Mavor, on the Use of the Thermometer in estimating 
the progress of disease in the lower animals, and his suggestion 
that the subject might be taken up in a spirit of investigation and 
research by the Fellows of the Society. The importance of this 
branch of study, and the valuable information which is to be 
gained by it in the estimate and treatment of disease, -were 
specially advocated by Messrs. F. J. and A. Mavor, J. R. Cox, 
J. Moore, sen., the President, Secretary, and others; and before 
the meeting concluded it was decided to remit the matter to the 
Council of Management, for the appointment of a committee of 
investigation, who are to be intrusted with the task of instituting 
a series of observations and experiments, the records of which 
will be brought before the Society when the labours are sufficiently 
completed to admit of useful results being obtained. 
MIDLAND COUNTIES VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
The Twentieth Meeting of this Association was held at the 
“ Midland Hotel,” Derby, Nov. 28th, 1871. The president, 
F. Blakeway, Esq., of Stourbridge, in the chair. 
There were present, Messrs. Carless, Stafford; King, Mel¬ 
bourne; Pyatt, Nottingham; Poyser, Ashbourne; Reynolds, 
Mansfield; Rossell, Sandiacre; Coleshaw, Derby; and Proctor, 
Coventry. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved of. 
