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comrades has so far found his way clear to enter into organize 
association with this body of his colaborers. 
Included in the pamphlet are the names and addresses of tb 
nineteen State Secretaries who have been nominated by our Pre: 
ident with the authorization of the Association. 
The pamphlet includes a complete list of the various commii 
tees of the Association, with their membership, from which w 
learn that live members compose our Committee on Disease;: 
quite well distributed throughout the land, in respect to the mat 
ter of residence. With committees so numerically strong h 
membership, and the aid of this list of State Secretaries, and es 
pecially with so complete and efficient a Committee on Diseases 
you will necessarily anticipate on this anniversary meeting of ou 
Association, (the twsnty-thivd , I believe) a report from me a 
chaiiman of this committee, which should be complete and satis 
factoiy. But the result of such an anticipation can be none otliej 
than disappointment, when you come to realize the meagerness oi 
the infoi mation I must be content to lay before you. 
It is but a few weeks, I believe, since the distribution of this 
pamphlet of our Secretary was accomplished, and it is hardly 
probable, therefore, in respect to those who were most interested 
in knowing the positions which had been assigned to them, to 
make the proper and necessary preparation by obtaining in due 
season the information from others, or acquiring it for them¬ 
selves, which must constitute the material for such reports as it is 
piopei to lay before such a body as this. However this may be, 
and whether different results would have followed any other con¬ 
dition of things, we do not venture to say. 
The chairman of the Committee on Diseases had four gentle¬ 
men with whom to co-operate, and to whom he could and did 
apply for aid. There were also nineteen State Secretaries, and 
the one hundred and thirty-four members of the Association upon 
which they (the five) could call in an appeal for interesting in¬ 
formation and scientific facts and suggestions. These were all 
subject to our appeal; we could ask each and all of them to contri¬ 
bute to the common stock of veterinarian experience and science. 
I ha\e oone what I could, and here is the result in a communication 
