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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
After receiving a favorable report from the Board of Cen¬ 
sors on the applications of the following named gentlemen, the 
association voted them into membership : John Thomsen, V.S., 
J. W. Griffith, V.S., W. F. Lazear, M.D.C., C. H. Whitwell, M.D. 
C., P. O. Koto, M.D.C.; H. A. Fee, V.S., J. H. McLeod, D.V.S., 
C. Miller, V.S., C. A. Woods, V.S., W. G. Jones, V.S., J. H. 
Spence, V.S., H. W. Shanks, D.V.S., A. A. Peters, V.S., E. G. 
Martin, V.S. 
Dr. G. A. Johnson, Chairman of the Committee an Sanita¬ 
tion, made the committee report. 
Dr. J. I. Gibson, Chairman of the Committee on State Legis¬ 
lation, reported progress, and stated that he thought the bill that 
was introduced last year would become a law this winter. 
The association voted that all papers read before the meeting 
should become the property of the association. 
A change of the By-laws, proposed at the last meeting by 
Drs. Rich and Gibson, to make Art. IV read : “ Each member, on 
being admitted to membership, shall pay the sum of two dollars, 
and shall annually thereafter pay one dollar in advance to the 
association. Any member in arrears more than two years shall 
be suspended until said arrears are paid.” On vote of the asso¬ 
ciation, it was adopted. 
On vote of the association, all members three years or more 
in arrears for dues were suspended, but the Secretary was in¬ 
structed to inform each member so in arrears that the payment 
of said indebtedness within thirty days would reinstate them. 
The association voted to donate five dollars to the Pasteur 
Monument Fund. 
A special assessment of seventy-five cents per capita was or¬ 
dered to meet expenses of the association. 
Resignations of Drs. G. P. McNay and G. L. Buffington were 
accepted. 
The Secretary was instructed to correspond with the publish¬ 
ers of the veterinary journals relative to the printing of the re¬ 
port and papers of the meeting, and reprints for the members, 
and to accept the best proposition obtained. 
Adjourned for supper. 
The evening session by pre-arrangement was held in the par¬ 
lor of the Savery Hotel, and to which the members of the Iowa 
State Agricultural Society (then in session in Des Moines) had 
been invited. About fifty members of that organization assem¬ 
bled with us to hear the reading of Dr. Peters’ papers on “ Se¬ 
rum-Therapy in Hog Cholera.” President Shipley, in introduc- 
