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There were present Messrs. Reynolds, Morgan, Elam, Moore, 
Watson, Stevenson, Townson, Lloyd, and Chisnall, of Liver¬ 
pool ; John Gerrard, Market Deeping; T. Greaves, P. Taylor, 
W. A. Taylor, S. Locke, E. Paulkner, and A. Prescott, of Man¬ 
chester; W. Dacre, Altrincham; W. Woods, Wigan; J. H. 
Welsby, West Derby; James Moore, sen., London; W. H. 
Roughsedge and J. S. Menzies, St. Helens; H. Barnes, Malpas, 
James Storrar, Chester; P. E. Rothwell, Woolton, Lewis, Tar- 
porley, and the Secretary. 
Letters of apology were received from Professors M'Call and 
Axe; Messrs. H. J. Cartwright, T. Hopkins, T. Taylor, G. 
Heyes, E. Nuttall, W. A. Cartwright, T. Roberts, W. G. Scho¬ 
field, M. J. Harpley, A. H. Santy, L. Butters, J. B. Wolsten- 
holme, G. Carless, W. Lewis, and J. Lawson. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 
Messrs. Stevenson and Chisnall, of Liverpool, and Lewis, of 
Tarporley, were unanimously elected members of the Association. 
The committee of the Fleming Testimonial Bund gave in 
their renort, and after considerable discussion the committee 
were instructed to confer with the committee appointed by the 
Lancashire Association, in order to determine what further action 
should be taken regarding it. 
Mr. Gerrard then read a paper entitled " Remarks, Anatomical, 
Physiological, and Pathological, on Parturient Apoplexy,” of 
which the following is a copy :— 
Man has somewhere been said to be a gregarious being, that 
is to say, he loves to assemble in flocks. And it may be that, 
owing to this common infirmity, or rather common instinct of 
our nature, I am here to day. 
Certain it is that, whatever my motives may be, not being a 
member of your society, or indeed any other society, I feel 
that I owe you an apology or explanation for my appearance 
here. 
Well, it is simply this. Some time in the month of last March, 
in writing a friendly letter to your secretary, I chanced to make 
some remarks on the “ germ theory of disease in its relation to 
splenic fever.” And he with that instinctive eye to business, 
which I suppose all secretaries of veterinary medical associations 
possess, suggested that I should write a paper on the subject, 
and come over and read it at your May meeting. 
Pressure of business, no less than the intricate and abstruse 
nature of the subject, prevented me from complying with his sug¬ 
gestion, and he very generously gave me other three months. 
I found, however, that the progress of discovery in relation to 
this vital controversy was so rapid, the subject itself so extensive 
