890 MONTREAL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
Present the following members :—Messrs Robinson, sen. and jun., and 
M'Farlane, Greenock; Messrs Dunlop and Kidney, Belfast; Mr. R. 
Rutherford, Edinburgh; Mr. Campbell, Kirkcudbright; Mr. MTntosh, 
Dumfries ; Messrs. Spreull and Crockat, Dundee ; Mr. Thomson, Inver¬ 
ness ; Mr. Lindsay, Alloa; Messrs Pottie, M‘Geoch, and Houston, 
Paisley; Mr Bryce, Stirling; Mr. Chivas, Corbridge-on-Tyne ; Mr. 
Gardener, Helensburgh ; Mr. Neil, Dumbarton; Mr. Blackie, Bellshill; 
Mr. Brackenridge, Holly town; Mr. Pollock, Hamilton; Mr. Jar vie, 
Carluke; Mr. Clark, Dalserf; Mr. Allan, Clarkston; Mr. Blue, Mearns ; 
Mr. Panton, Blairgowrie; Mr. Constable, Inchture; Messrs Mitchell, 
Weir, Anderson, jun., M c Queen, Prentice, Mitchell, Dickson, Hill, 
Pollock, Currie, and Wyper, Glasgow; Mr. Weir, Airdrie. 
After some formal business, Mr. R. Rutherford, Edinburgh, read an 
interesting and exhaustive essay upon “ Inoculation for Contagious 
Pleuro-pneumonia.” It was agreed to reserve the discussion till next 
quarterly meeting. 
The members and friends afterwards dined together in the Royal 
Restaurant, where a most enjoyable evening was spent. 
J. Macqueen, Secretary. 
MONTREAL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSO¬ 
CIATION. 
This Association held its opening meeting for the Winter Session 
1880-81 in the lecture room of the Veterinary College, Union Avenue, 
on Thursday evening last, October 14th-— the President, Dr. Osier, in 
the chair. The President opened with an address to the members, 
before retiring from office. The meeting then proceeded to the election 
of officers for the ensuing session, with the following result:—President, 
C. J. Alloway, V.S.; 1st Vice-President, James Bell, M.D.; 2nd Vice- 
President, M. C. Baker, V.S. ; Secretary-Treasurer, E. J. Carter; 
Librarian, B. D. Pierce. 
Mr. Alloway then took the chair, and addressed the meeting, fol¬ 
lowed by Professor McEachran, Honorary President, who expressed 
his satisfaction upon the prosperous condition of the Association and the 
library connected with it, which is now one of the most valuable on this 
continent, containing all the oldest and the most recent works on 
veterinary and collateral sciences. He also pointed out the benefits to 
be derived by the members of the Association from their meeting 
together for the purpose of hearing papers read and discussed. 
The following gentlemen were proposed as members of the Associa¬ 
tion :—A. W. Clement, Geo. W. Goetz, T. J. O’Coimol, Alfred W. 
Mears, James Brodie, J. A. Duncan, P. Paquin, F. Paquin, P. A. 
Pomroy, L. W. Bergeron, C. B. Robinson, Pierre Gadbois, V. T. 
Daubigny, V.S., R. T. Whittlesey, and William Lemay. 
A vote of thanks was passed to the retiring officers. 
At the next meeting, on the 28th instant, Professor McEachran will 
read a paper on the important subject of “ Tuberculosis of Cattle and 
its relation to Public Health.” A communication will also be read on 
“ Purpura ITtemorrhagica,” by Mr. Clias. H. Ormond. 
