212 LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The President said,—I cannot allow this meeting to pass without 
mentioning to you that we have lost one of our members by 
death. Mr. Alfred Challinor has now passed away. You will 
all remember his kindly, genial character, his agreeable manner, 
and how much pleasure it gave every one who knew him to have 
him with us. He has gone and we shall never see him here 
again, and we shall only be doing our duty if a letter of condo¬ 
lence be sent to his widow. We have not only lost a friend, but 
a valuable member of the profession. Seconded by Mr. Whittle. 
of Mosley. 
Mr. Whittle proposed that all liabilities of the association be 
paid, and if the Treasurer had not sufficient monies in hand, he 
was to draw from the bank account. Seconded by Mr. P. 
Taylor. 
The President then introduced Dr. A. Gamgee, from Owen's 
College Manchester, who had kindly promised to read a paper 
“ On the Appreciation of the Graphic Method to Physiological 
and Pathological Investigations/' 
Mr. President and Gentlemen,—You will allow me, in the first 
place, to say that it is with much pleasure that I come here this 
evening. I feel very great interest in the veterinary profession. 
In the second place, if I had another inducement to come here 
with pleasure it was the feeling that I had been asked to come 
by Messrs. T. Taylor and Locke, from whom 1 have received 
many acts of kindness. I trust members will excuse me if 
I have come to some extent unprepared with an elaborate lecture; 
my time is very much taken up with my duties in Owen’s 
College, and I am very much engaged in literary work. It 
occurred to me, however, that the members of this association 
might be interested if I merely came before them, and drew 
their attention to some experiments by the science of the graphic 
method. He then spoke of the important and rapid advance¬ 
ment which physiology had made during the present century, 
and he endeavoured to trace the causes of it. It could not be 
due to the superior acuteness and energy of modern investigators, 
nor altogether to the greater number of them at present devoted 
to the work of research. Por if we look back to the history of 
the seventeenth century, we find eminent physiologists of the 
highest ability, who would compare very favorably with the 
physiologists of the present day. What recent physiologists 
could fairly claim was the merit of having imparted to physio¬ 
logical research a precision by the introduction of the graphic 
methods of physical investigators. Professor Gamgee proceeded 
to illustrate the graphic method by experiments with the muscle 
and nerve of a recently killed frog. A frog's muscle was so 
prepared that when an electric shock was sent through its nerve 
