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resumed, each member relating a case on the above subject, a very varied 
and profitable discussion followed. 
The office-bearers for the ensuing year were elected, viz.: Mr. D. 
Dudgeon, President; Mr. W. F. Mulvey and Mr. H. Hunter, Vice- 
presidents; Mr. G. R. Dudgeon, Secretary and Treasurer. 
A committee being elected to arrange for the annual meeting and 
dinner, to be held on the 28th May, at which Prof. Pritchard will read 
a paper on “ Some of the Contagious Diseases affecting Cart-horses,” the 
meeting terminated. G. R. Dudgeon, 
Hon. Sec. 
THE SCOTTISH METROPOLITAN VETERINARY 
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The annual general meeting of this Association was held in the 
London Hotel, Edinburgh, on Wednesday, the 11th February. Mr. 
Connochie, M.R.C.V.S., Selkirk, President for the current year, occu¬ 
pied the chair, and there was a fair attendance of members. 
The Secretary submitted a report as to the state of the Society’s 
funds and membership, which was adopted. Some discussion took 
place concerning advisability of taking united action at the next elec¬ 
tion of members to the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons. Ultimately it was agreed that the Association should take 
no action in the matter. 
Mr. Rutherford , Edinburgh, described a case of puncture of the 
bowel for tympany, successfully performed on a half-bred harness 
horse. Mr. Rutherford also mentioned some cases of dumb rabies, 
which had recently come under his notice. 
The Secretary stated that he was quite prepared to hear of an 
outbreak of rabies in Edinburgh, as some time previously a dog, affected 
with the malady had been brought to the Veterinary College, and it 
was stated by the owner that it had bitten a great number of dogs. 
The President then proceeded to deliver his inaugural address as 
follows : 
Gentlemen, on taking the chair on this occasion, I beg to thank you 
for electing me President of this Association for the year, and to 
assure you all how highly I appreciate the honour you have conferred 
upon me. I earnestly hope that the Association may have no retro¬ 
gressive movement during my term of office. In taking a retrospect 
of the history of the Association since its inauguration, it cannot but 
be a source of regret to every member that so little real good work 
has been accomplished, and that so few of our surrounding profes¬ 
sional brethren have seen their way to join us. I frankly admit that 
circumstances have prevented me from being so regular in attendance 
at the meetings lately. This I have always regretted, because I can 
assure you that every meeting I have attended I have been amply 
repaid for any loss of time or any trouble I may have been put to. 
But living at a distance between forty and fifty miles from Edinburgh, 
and having professional work to attend to, it is absolutely impossible to 
attend every meeting. We have all been somewhat remiss in this 
respect. Let us resolve that this shall be so no longer. But by more 
regular attendance at the meetings, by inducing others to join us, and 
by recording cases of interest, we may make the Association second to 
none in the kingdom, and worthy of the name of the Scottish Metro- 
