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YORKSHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
With regard to the second question, he would, in this age of progress and 
knowledge, ask them all to answer it for themselves. 
il Tr. Geo. Fleming also replied, and said he felt in duty bound to say 
that the profession, so far as he was able to judge, was progressing. The 
younger members who joined the profession promised to be good mem¬ 
bers. On no occasion had there been more unanimity of feeling and 
goodwill than on this, and he thought that argued well for the good of 
the profession. He thought recent progress has shown that the profes¬ 
sion is quite willing and will soon be ready to take that high position 
which veterinary science commands, and he trusted he would see the day 
when it would get a position 50 per cent, higher than at present. 
Mr. T. Taylor proposed the next toast, viz., “ The National Benevolent 
and Mutual Defence Society,” which was very ably responded to by Mr. 
Peler Taylor , and also Mr. T. Greaves , who said—I have been very much 
pleased with what has fallen from Mr. Fleming this afternoon and from 
Mr. Peter Taylor this evening upon the subject, and in responding to 
the toast I have great pleasure in announcing that both the National 
Benevolent and Defence Societies are progressing favorably. We have 
about 150 members; our Benevolent Fund at the bauk at this moment is 
£1244 16s. 5d., that of the Defence Fund is £72 6s. 2d. During this 
year we have taken from the Defence Fund £400 and placed it in the 
Benevolent Fund, according to our rules : we did the same thing in 1875. 
We have paid within the last twelve months £84 15s. 2d. out of the 
Defence Fund, the legal expenses for a trial at Leeds. We have paid 
out of the Benevolent Fund £10 towards the expenses of schooling for 
the two orphan girls of the late Mr. George Brown, a gentleman whose 
memory is respected by us all. During this year we have received 
a bequest of £52 3s. 4d. from the late Mr. William Field. Miss 
Dick has promised us £100 at her death, and I know others who 
have not forgotten this fund, a fund which I hesitate not to say will 
afford a greater conscientious pleasure to those who contribute when we 
come to lie upon our death-bed than any other mode of leaving our 
surplus capital. I know and feel that this act will in some degree 
relieve the want of some poor widow and orphan of a deserving pro¬ 
fessional brother. I particularly wish to call the attention of every 
benevolent man to this matter. As to the defence portion, there is 
scarcely a week passes in which we are not consulted on some unreason¬ 
able or unjust case or other. The experience your officers have had during 
the fourteen years of our existence has led us to the conclusion that in 
almost every case it is far preferable that an effort should be made to 
settle the case out of court; we could illustrate this by several instances 
in which we have made bold to investigate the matter, and by approach¬ 
ing the opposite party we have found him as ready to settle the case as 
we could desire, and have settled it, greatly in the interest of the Society. 
We could give illustrations of other cases where such a course was not 
pursued and where we had to pay dear for it. I ask every member of 
our profession to come and join us. Sam. Locke, Hon. Sec. 
YORKSHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
The concluding quarterly meeting for 1879 was held at the Queen’s 
Hotel, Leeds, on Thursday, the 30th October, the President, Mr. 
Peter Walker, in the chair ; the following members were also present, viz. 
Messrs. Naylor, Freeman, Jas. Greaves, Carter, J. S. Anderton, Cuth- 
