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VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
various kinds to such persons as have been deemed worthy. Also by 
the free circulation of library books and periodicals. In all, twenty 
General Meetings have taken place during the Winter Session of 
collegiate studies, the opening meeting having been held on the 14th 
October, 1879, and the final meeting on the 16th March, 1880. 
The first General Meeting was public, and at it the President delivered 
his introductory remarks, and the Secretary read his “ Review of the 
Session 1878-79.” Then Mr. G. A. Banham, M.R.C.V.S., Spooner 
Gold Medalist, read a paper, “ Introductory to the Study of Disease.” 
At the same meeling the President announced the temporary agreement 
between the Council of the Association and the Governors of the Royal 
Veterinary College whereby the library of the Association is now avail¬ 
able for use by all students. 
The following gentlemen were elected Student Vice-Vresidents , and 
have satisfactorily performed their duties as such during the session :— 
Messrs. Slipper, Magor, Lepper, Villar, Gregory, and Talbott. 
The following is the list of essays which have been read at the General 
Meetings: 
1. —14th October. “ Introductory to the Study of Disease,” Mr. 
G. A. Banham, M.R.C.V.S. 
2. —28th October. “ Pleuro-pneumonia Epizootica,” Mr. Ed. Slipper, 
V.P. 
3. —4th November. “On the Stomachs of the Ox,” Mr. T. W. Cave. 
4. —18th November. “Anthrax,” Mr. F. C. Toop. 
5. —9th December. “ Tuberculosis in Cattle,” Mr. F. W. Lepper, V.P. 
6. —16th December. “ On Horse Shoeing,” Mr. S. Villar, V.P. 
7. —13th January. “ Laminitis,” Mr. E. It. Harding. 
8. —20th January. “ Rot in Sheep,” Mr. J. I. Crowhurst. 
9. —3rd February. “ German Veterinary Schools,” Mr. G. A. Ban¬ 
ham, M.R.C.V.S. 
10. —10th February. “The Prospeets of Veterinary Students,” Mr. 
J. H. Steel, M.R.C.V.S. 
11. —17th February. “Diphtheria,” Mr. W. H. Beach. 
12. —24th February. “ Typhoid Fever in the Pig,” Mr. J. W. Carlisle. 
13. —9th March. “ On the Antiseptic System,” Mr. E. E. Bennett. 
Thus, though the meetings were fewer by one, the papers brought 
forward have been more numerous by the somewhat larger number of 
three as compared with the Forty-third Session. They have for the 
most part also been of high character and great professional interest, 
reflecting to a marked degree the history of the prevalence of disease 
and of the progress of medical thought during the past year. Thus, the 
papers by Messrs. Bennett and Beach may be associated with the dis¬ 
cussions in medical journals and at the Pathological Society on the same 
subjects. The papers by Messrs. Lepper, Toop, and Carlisle bear upon 
the questions concerning specific disorders, which have been brought 
prominently forward during the past year by the researches of Green¬ 
field, Cbeyne, and Lister, in this country, Pasteur, Toussaint, Bollinger, 
and others, abroad. Mr. Slipper’s paper on the “ Lung Disease ” was 
particularly d propos , as reminding us of the important questions hinging 
upon the prevalence of this disorder in the United States of America, 
where, as well as in this country, it has been necessitating legislative 
measures, and compelling the attention of the Government and public of 
the two nations to the usefulness and progress of the veterinary profession. 
Mr. Crowhurst’s paper reminded us of the disorder which was extermi¬ 
nating our flocks and cutting off an important source of meat supply. It 
