260 LIVERPOOL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 
Dietetics. 
1. —Name the nitrogenous and non-nitrogenous elements of Cereals ? 
2. —State the comparative dietetic merits of Oats, Beans, Indian Corn, 
and Bran, and give your reasons ? 
3. —State in order the hours for feeding, and watering, and the 
quantity of food and water which you consider essential under ordinary 
conditions for an average farm horse in the twenty-four hours ? 
LIVERPOOL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSO¬ 
CIATION. 
The ordinary quarterly meeting of this Association was held at the 
Medical Institute, on the 13th of February, 1880; C. H. Elam, Esq., 
President, in the chair. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 
Election of members to the Council .—Letters were read from the Secre¬ 
taries of the Lancashire, Norfolk, and Yorkshire Veterinary Medical 
Associations. 
The Secretary stated that he had not received a reply to his letter from 
the Midland Counties Veterinary Medical Association. 
After some discussion it was unanimously agreed that this Association 
nominate for re-election to a seat at the Council of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons Professor Brown, of the Royal College of Veteri¬ 
nary Surgeons, London, and that the President and Secretary act as an 
election committee, to make the necessary arrangements for supporting 
his election, in connection with the election of the gentlemen nominated 
by the Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Norfolk Veterinary Medical 
Associations. 
The President then delivered his introductory address. He com¬ 
menced by thanking the members for the honour they had conferred 
upon him in electing him their President, and expressed the hope that 
his conduct in that capacity throughout his year of office would meet 
with their approval, and not belie the confidence they had so unsolicitedly 
reposed in him, as he assured them that no effort should be wanting on 
his part in order to make the meetings of the Association a success, both 
professionally and socially. 
He then referred to the great benefits which veterinary medical asso¬ 
ciations had already been the means of conferring, both on their indi¬ 
vidual members, and also on the profession as a body, and strongly 
urged us to cultivate unity and esprit de corps among ourselves, in order 
to attain that position in the estimation of the Government and the 
country which the practice of our honorable and useful profession entitled 
us to. 
He said: We have now got a thoroughly representative Council, and 
we shall have ourselves to blame if we do not send our ablest and best 
men to represent us there; and if we are only true to each other, and 
have the best interests of our profession at heart, we shall very soon feel 
ourselves in a position to demand from the Legislature that legal protec¬ 
tion from unfair and dishonest competition with which the profession has 
been so long burdened. 
He next referred, in congratulatory terms, to the completed arrange¬ 
ments between the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and the High¬ 
land and Agricultural Society of Scotland, whereby the latter body 
