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LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSO¬ 
CIATION. 
The above association held its annual dinner at the Clarence 
Hotel, Manchester, on Thursday, the 4th February, A. L. Gibson, 
Esq., President, in the chair. There were present tlie following:— 
Messrs. P. Taylor; James Brooks; \V. J. Challinor; Leather, Liver¬ 
pool ; Morgan, Liverpool; Greaves ; Haycock, Whittle; Howell; 
M. A. Naylor, Wakefield; W. Barrett, New York; Broughton, 
Leeds; Cuthbert; J. Taylor; J. Lawson, sen., W. Taylor, Stock- 
port ; Woods, Wigan. 
Letters of apology were read from the following:—Carless, 
Stafford; Ellis, Liverpool ; Storar, Chester ; Darwell, Northwich ; 
Bridge, Bury ; Smith, Ormskirk ; Professor Williams, Edinburgh; 
Elam, Liverpool; Lawson, Bolton; Carter, Bradford ; Cox, Knuts- 
ford; Owles, 6th Enniskillen Dragoons; Reynolds, Liverpool ; 
Professor Varnell; and Assistant-Professor Pritchard. 
Mr. Bostock, of Pendleton, was proposed as a member of the 
association by J. Taylor, Esq., seconded by Mr. TV. J. Challinor. 
The President then read his inaugural address: 
Gentlemen, —As year after year rolls by it becomes unquestion¬ 
ably a more difficult task for each succeeding President to select a 
subject for the customary annual address. Indeed, I have found it 
rather a difficult task to select something which has not been ex¬ 
hausted in previous addresses. 
Our profession makes such slow progress, that one is obliged, to 
a great extent, to treat more or less the same subjects, only^ perhaps, 
expressing different opinions, and scattering a few new ideas in 
arguments. However, be this as it may, there is some satisfaction 
in knowing that we are progressing, if it is but slowly; and we 
must undoubtedly walk before we run. 1 don’t think it is at all 
necessary for me to review the commencement and progress of our 
profession up to the present time, at least not to any length, as it 
has been done so frequently, that it would only be occupying your 
time, in my opinion, uselessly. 
Therefore 1 propose addressing you for a short time upon those 
subjects which interest us all at the present time, and wdiich concern 
the future welfare of our profession, not only here, but everywhere. 
In the first place, then, the foremost proposition of all, and, I believe, 
the most important, is, our Veterinary Medical Bill, which I believe 
is soon to be again presented to Parliament. 
I feel (as I am sure that each and every one of you will feel) that, 
should we be successful in gaining this acknowledgment from 
Government, it will be one of the greatest strides our profession has 
ever made—if not the greatest. The question arises. How are we 
to carry it, and how much shall we try to obtain ? As regards the 
