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augural address, as their time would be far more profitably employed in 
listening to Professor Williams’ paper. He had an intimation to make 
which would meet with the approval of all present, viz., That Professor 
Williams had been elected President of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons for the ensuing year—an announcement which was received 
with great applause. 
Professor Williams then read a very able paper on “ Splenic Fever and 
the History of the Bacillus ar.thracis,” exhibiting microscopic drawings 
of the Bacillus. At the conclusion of the paper he thanked the members 
for the attention they had given him, and also for the hearty mannnerin 
which they had received the announcement of his election as President 
of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, a post which he would 
endeavour to fulfil to the best of his ability; he also informed the 
members that the next annual meeting of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons would be held in Edinburgh. He refered to the union which 
had been brought about with the members of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons and the Highland Society, a thing which he had long 
striven for, and which had now been brought to a successful issue mainly 
through the indefatigable endeavours of their late President General Sir 
F. W. Fitzwygram. 
A very animated discussion followed the reading of the paper, in which 
Messrs. Macgregor, Gofton, Stephenson, H. Hunter, F. Nisbet, A. 
Hunter, Mulvey, Elptick, C. Hunting and Dr. Armstrong took part. 
Mr. Stephenson proposed and Mr. H. Hunter seconded a vote cf thanks 
to Professor Williams for his kindness in coming and reading them such 
an instructive paper. 
Professor Williams having replied the meeting terminated. 
Afterwards the members and guests sat down to an excellent dinner 
at which all the patriotic and other toasts were ably proposed and re¬ 
sponded to, a very enjoyable evening being spent. 
G. R. Dudgeon, Hon. Sec. 
THE SCOTTISH METROPOLITAN VETERINARY 
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The quarterly meeting of this Association was held in the London 
Hotel, Edinburgh, on Wednesday, the 4th June. The president, 
Mr. Rutherford, occupied the chair; there was a fair attendance of 
members. 
A motion by the President, that the Association subscribe the sum of 
one guinea to the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Animals, was carried unanimously. 
The President gave notice of a motion, recording the satisfaction 
with which the Association viewed the agreement recently concluded 
between the Highland and Agricultural Society and the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons; an agreement calculated to lead to the complete 
unity of the profession. 
Professor Walley exhibited a beautifully stuffed calf with two fully 
formed and distinct heads and necks, a double spine and two tails. The 
foetus had been forwarded to him by Mr. Taylor, of Seaford, and he had it 
stuffed for the college museum. The foetus being of a fair size, the two 
heads offered a serious obstacle to delivery, but this Mr. Taylor had 
effected without mutilating the calf; the cow afterwards did well. 
