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THE YORKSHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL 
SOCIETY* 
(The Secretary^ Official Report.) 
The annual meeting of the above society was held at the 
QueeiPs Hotels Leeds, on Friday, the 29th January, at 
1.30 p.m. The attendance of members was very good, and 
the feeling of kindness to each other, accompanied with a 
desire to advance the common objects of the society, was 
cordially evinced by all present. In fact, it was a most suc¬ 
cessful meeting, and cannot fail to produce beneficial results. 
There were present—the President (Mr. E. C. Dray, 
Leeds); Messrs. Seeker, Knaresborough; Lecker, Ripon; 
Nicholson, Womersley; Pratt, Masham; Anderton, Skipton; 
Fallding, Wakefield; Patterson, Dewsbury; Kay, Ponte¬ 
fract; Edmondson, Hormby; Horne, Barnsley; Greaves, 
Manchester (President of the Lancashire Veterinary Medical 
Society); Taylor, Wetherby; Broughton, Leeds; Carter, 
Bradford; Cuthbert, Leeds; Fishwick, Gargrave; and the 
Secretary. 
After the preliminary business had been disposed of, the 
President delivered the following inaugural address : 
Gentlemen ,—In the present age of intellectual progress, 
no one will deny the advantages that arise from association. 
Throughout nature we find this to obtain as a principle, and 
in so many ways, patent to all, that it is not necessary to 
advance a single instance in confirmation of the truth of the 
statement. Both in art and in social and political life the 
same also holds good. But if there be one section in which 
its truthfulness is most markedly manifest, it is in the asso¬ 
ciating together of the members of a profession for the pur¬ 
pose of its advancement. 
Associations have been thus glowingly and eloquently 
described :—“ Statesmen associate to make laws for empires, 
and devise plans to promote their interests. Men of science 
associate to study our planet, or to explore the wonders of 
the star-thronged universe. Men of literature associate to 
converse about the ideas, the figures, and style of celebrated 
writers, and to strike out a thousand richer notes from the 
golden lyre of eloquence. Students of the fine arts associate 
to perfect the art of sculpture, or painting, and to increase 
the embellishments of civilisation. Men of business asso¬ 
ciate to promote the extension of commerce. Lovers ot 
