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should be adopted. (Applause). He moved a cordial vote of thanks to 
the Sheriff for his discourse. 
Dr. Johnstone seconded the motion, which was warmly responded to. 
VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The First General Meeting of the Forty-fifth Session of the members 
of the Veterinary Medical Association was held in the Lecture Theatre 
of the Royal Veterinary College on Tuesday, 19th October, 1880, at 
6.30 p.m. 
The President, Professor Pritchard, occupied the chair. 
A general invitation to this meeting had been issued by order of the 
President to all students at the Royal Veterinary College. Thirty-one 
visitors responded to this. Twenty-two members also attended. 
The President having announced that urgent private affairs neces¬ 
sitated the absence of the Secretary, and having read that officer’s letter 
of apology, called on Mr. Pemberthy, as pro-Secretary, to read the 
minutes of the last General Meeting of the Forty-fourth Session, which 
were received. 
The Secretary’s “ Report of the Proceeding of the Association during 
the Forty-fourth Session ” was then read and accepted. It had been 
previously received by the Council. 
The awards of the past session were then announced, and the prizes 
distributed. 
Messrs. C. C. Clarke, James Smith, Albert Hassal, and Wm. Harold 
Leeny, M.R C.V.S., of Brighton, were then proposed as fit persons to 
become members of the Association. 
The following gentlemen were then elected Student Vice-Presidents 
for the coming session :—Messrs. Bennett, Huband, Fletcher, Pem¬ 
berthy, Edgar, and Redford. 
The President then announced the subjects for prize competition, as 
decided by the Council, for the coming session, strongly urging all 
student members to send in essays and anatomical specimens. During 
the course of some general remarks he warmly eulogised the suggestion 
thrown out in the Secretary’s report as to publication of the work of 
the Society; also drew attention of the members to the value of taking 
part in the discussions following the reading of essays, &c,, and the 
visiting of knackers’ yards in search for morbid specimens. 
The names of gentlemen prepared to read essays at the General 
Meetiug were then received, and after votes of thanks to the Chairman 
and Mr. Pemberthy for their services, the meeting terminated with the 
announcement of Mr. Hurndall’s paper, “ On the Feeding and Manage¬ 
ment of Dairy Stock, as it is and as it might be,” for the next night. 
(Signed) John Penberthy, pro-Secretary. 
Report of the Proceedings of the Veterinary Medical Association during the 
Session 1879-80, being the Forty-fourth Session of the Association , as 
presented to the Council by the Secretary. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen, —During the session which has 
passed the Association has been pursuing its course in a satisfactory 
manner. It has, in so far as circumstances permitted, tended to advance 
veterinary science by the reading of professional papers, with free dis¬ 
cussion of the views advanced therein, by the examination and exhibition 
of specimens of professional interest, and by the awarding of prizes of 
