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The President then read his Inaugural Address. Mr. Greaves 
moved and Mr. W. A. Taylor seconded a vote of thanks to the 
President for his excellent address, which was carried by accla¬ 
mation. 
The Secretary read the report of the Committee, Messrs. 
Reynolds, Welsley, and Kenny, who were appointed at the last 
meeting to inquire and report why the meetings of the Associa¬ 
tion for the past year had not been attended by the usual number 
of members and visitors. 
The report, wdiich referred to complaints of unprofessional con¬ 
duct, among other things, as having had an injurious effect, was, 
after an animated discussion, adopted. John Kenny, 
Hon. Sec. 
THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. 
Gentlemen, —Let the first words I utter from this chair be 
expressions of thanks to the members of this Association for 
placing me in so distinguished a position, and the coupling with 
those thanks assurances that my best endeavours shall be exerted 
to maintain the cardinal objects for which this and kindred 
associations throughout the United Kingdom have been esta¬ 
blished. 
It is somewhat a difficult matter to get out of the beaten track 
so often previously traversed by former presidents in their in¬ 
augural addresses; still I do not know but that a short retro¬ 
spective glance at recent topics of general and local interest, and 
a consideration of the future of the profession, may not be taken 
with greater pleasure and profit than “showing a line” over a 
new country, one perhaps more difficult, and probably less in¬ 
teresting to cross. 
The year 1872 has been notable for important additions to the 
literature of our art, and the thanks of every veterinary surgeon 
are due to those gentlemen who have striven with hand and brain 
to remove the stigma which has laid so long upon our profession 
for its paucity in works of standard authority. 
The literature of a science is the meter of its status, and our 
recent additions of high class works is a subject for sincere con¬ 
gratulation. Especially would I mention Professor Williams's 
‘ Principles and Practice of Veterinary Surgery/ which is not 
only a valuable text-book, but an agreeable and profitable one 
for general reading. 
Mr. Fleming’s prolific pen has given to us, perhaps, the most 
complete work on rabies that has appeared in any language, 
while his translation of M. Chauveau's ‘ Comparative Anatomy of 
Domesticated Animals’ will supply a requirement of long exist- 
