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SCOTTISH METROPOLITAN VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 803 
Messrs. Robertson (Kelso), Cunningham (Slateford) Balfour, 
(Kirkcaldy), Balfour (Markinch), Rutherford (Edinburgh), Reid 
(Leith), Young (East Calder), Baird, junior (Edinburgh), Storie 
(East Linton), Black (Howgate), Aitken (Edinburgh), Waugh 
(Stirling), Reekie (Edinburgh), and the Secretary. 
Letters regretting inability to attend were received from Pro¬ 
fessor Vaughan, and Messrs. T. Taylor and Tedbar H’opkin 
(Manchester), and McIntosh (Dumfries). Professor Baird, Dick 
Veterinary College, as retiring President, thanked the members 
for the courtesy extended to him during the past year, and 
begged to introduce Mr. Rutherford, his successor in office. Mr. 
Reekie was elected a member of the Association. 
The Secretary then presented his report concerning the mem¬ 
bership of the Society and the state of its funds. The report 
was adopted. He also reported that the honorary secretary 
of the National Veterinary Benevolent and Mutual Defence 
Society had kindly furnished him with copies of the rules and 
regulations of that body, which he had circulated among the 
members of the profession in Scotland. He stated that he would 
postpone the motion, of which he bad given notice at the pre¬ 
vious meeting until the provisions of the agreement between the 
Highland and Agricultural Society and the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons had been carried into effect. 
The President gave notice of his intention to move at the next 
meeting, that the Association subscribe annually the sum of one 
guinea to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 
Professor Walley exhibited a specimen of osteoid sarcoma in 
the femur of a cat, of which the following are the notes: 
The subject of this affection received an injury about two 
years ago, the femur, it was thought, being fractured. For some 
eighteen months the case had been under the observation of 
Mr. A. Grey, junior, and as the leg had attained an enormous 
size, and the cat had become very anaemic, she was poisoned, Mr. 
Grey submitting the diseased limb for my inspection. 
After removal of the skin, the limb presented the appearance 
of an enormous pear-shaped swelling (the circumference of 
which was as great as that of the cat’s body), extending from 
the head of the femur above to the tarsus below. Its surface 
offered several salient fluctuating points, which on puncture gave 
exit to a tenacious bloody fluid, and on pressure characteristic 
egg-shell cracking could be detected. On cutting through the 
tumour in a longitudinal direction, the usual characteristics of 
an osteoid-sarcoma were well shown, viz. firm, dense, glistening 
tissue of a whitish-grey colour, between which numerous loculi 
existed, whose walls were composed of thin layers of cartila¬ 
ginous and ossific matter, and containing masses of semi-coagu¬ 
lated blood, with fluid of the same character as that which was 
evacuated prior to section. The surrounding muscles were atro¬ 
phied, some of them absorbed, all of a pale colour, and largely 
infiltrated with sarcomatous elements. 
