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subject should be adjourned, as it was evident from the diversity of ideas 
expressed upon it that further discussion would be beneficial. 
This suggestion met with general assent from the members, and it 
was agreed that Mr. Morgan would open the debate at the quarterly 
meeting to be held in August next, as Professor Axe, of the Royal 
Veterinary College, had promised to open a discussiou on “ Contagious 
Diseases” at the next quarterly meeting. 
A vote of thanks to the President closed the meeting. 
Duncan Hutcheon, Hon. Sec. 
LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSO¬ 
CIATION. 
The annual meeting of the above Association was held at the Black- 
friars Hotel, Manchester, on Thursday, the 19th day of February, 1880. 
W. Dacre, Esq., President, in the chair. 
The following members and friends were present:—A. Gamgee, Esq., 
M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Physiology in Owen’s College, Manchester; 
Dr, Renshaw, of Altrincham, Dr. F. Holmes, Manchester, Dr. Owen, 
Manchester; J. Lambert, 17th Lancers ; S. M. Wilson, 12th Lancers ; 
W. A. Russell, Army Service Corps ; Messrs. Peter Taylor, T. Greaves, 
Tom Taylor, John Lawson, W. A. Taylor, A. Lawson, E. Faulkner, 
T. Hopkin, J. B. Wolstenholme, and E. Kitchen, of Manchester; R. 
Roberts, of Kendal; J. B, Taylor, Ashton ; Messrs. Elam and Hutcheon, 
Liverpool; J. Burnett, Oldham; — Freeman, Hull; Peter Walker, 
Bradford; H. Baird, Macclesfield; J. Howell, Rochdale; W. Woods, 
Wigan; W. Whittle, Moseley; C. E, Challinor, Pendlebury; W. G. 
Schofield, Pontefract; T. Briggs, Bury; Mr. Litt, of Bolton, and the 
Secretary. 
Letters of apology were received from Prof. Pritchard, Messrs. Geo. 
Fleming, J. Welbsy, M. Naylor, R. Reynolds, &c. 
The minutes of the last meeting were duly read and confirmed, after 
which, 
Mr. C. E. Challinor begged leave to nominate as a member of this 
Association, Mr. T. Stone, M.R.C.V.S., of Walkden, near Manchester. 
The President , Mr. William Dacre, in making a few remarks, said— 
Gentlemen, I have no intention this evening of reading you a formal 
inaugural address, but the occasion of our annual meeting can scarcely 
be passed over without my rising to thank you most sincerely and 
heartily for the honour and undeserved compliment you have paid me 
by my election at your hands to this chair for a second term of office, 
and I can assure the members of this Association that with their support, 
and the valuable assistance of my fellow-officers, nothing shall be wanting 
to render the coming year of work one of interest and pleasure. 
Looking forward to the interesting paper we are to hear this evening, I 
hope we may terminate our labours as auspiciously as we are about to 
commence them. 
The doings of our small world are so favorably chronicled in our 
journals that it becomes a difficult task to speak of anything, on an 
occasion like the present, that has not already been often brought before 
you in a better form, nevertheless, I am of opinion that your attention 
cannot be too often drawn to matters of vital importance to the profes¬ 
sion ; matters that should be found uppermost in the minds of every 
member of it. „ , „ , . , , 
I would speak, more particularly, of those reforms which we have 
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