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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
NATIONAL VETERINARY ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
The fourth annual meeting of the National Veterinary Association opened i 
Edinburgh yesterday, and will be continued over to-day. The members of cou; 
cil met at ten o’clock in the offices of the Highland and Agricultural Societ; 
George IV. Bridge, Principal Walley, of the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College 
Edinburgh, presiding. It was agreed to recommend to the general meeting thi 
next year’s meeting should be held at Peterborough, and Mr. Mackinder of th 
city was nominated President for the year. The following were nominates 
Vice-Presidents:—Captain Russell, Grantham; Mr. Hardie, Sleaforth; Mr. Ru: 
ciman, Market Deeping; Mr. Joseph Axe, Doncaster; Mr. Wiggins, Mark 
Harborough; and Mr. Santy, Norwich. Mr. F. W. Wragg, London, was nom 
nated for re-election as Treasurer, and Mr. George A. Banham, Cambridge, i 
Secretary. The report of the Secretary stated that there were now 310 membe 
of the Association, being an increase of 34 in the year. A series of questior 
have been issued asking information upon the different branches of horse-shoein: 
and the answers will be embodied in a paper for next meeting. At the gener; 
meeting held afterwards—Principal Walley in the chair—the nomination ( 
office bearers was confirmed, and the other recommendations of the council we: 
also adopted. A suggestion by Professor M’Call, Glasgow, that the next meetic 
be held two years hence, was not pressed. 
The President, in his opening address, welcomed the Association to Edii 
burgh, which to all veterinary surgeons, he said, was classical ground, for lien 
upwards of a century ago, the pioneer and father of veterinary surgery was bor; 
and upwards of seventy years ago he commenced, under disadvantageous circuc 
stances, to teach the practice of veterinary medicine. It was a fortunate day f< 
the profession Avlien Professor Dick turned his back on the London Veterinai 
College, and sturdily retraced his steps to Scotland and established a veterinai 
school of his own. Having referred to the fact that Edinburgh was the only cit 
in the United Kingdom that w T as able to support more than one veterinary schoc 
Principal Walley made a kindly allusion to the recognition given to their profe 
sion by the Highland and Agricultural Society for sixty years. After sketchu 
the origin and progress of the National Veterinary Association, and the objects 
had in view, the President briefly remarked on the immense strides made in ti 
unification and consolidation of the profession during the last twenty years, an< 
in conclusion, expressed the hope that the day was not far distant when tl 
Government would recognize the importance of the veterinary profession in tl 
economy of the country by extending to it a helping hand. On the motion < 
Principal Williams—who referred to the valuable services to scientific thought 1 
the late John Barlow—a hearty vote of thanks was given to Principal Walley f' 
his address. 
HOMOEOPATHY IN THE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS. 
The first paper taken up for discussion was one by Mr. J. S. Hundall, Live 
pool, on the question—“Can experimental pathogenesy bd rendered useful 
elucidating a definite system of veterinary therapeutics ? ” The writer assert/ 
