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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
The Chair announced that the first order of business was the 
nomination and election of officers. 
Dr. W. R. Howe moved that the rules be suspended and that 
the present officers be again selected for another year. Dr. L. 
W. Carl vigorously seconded the motion. After remarks for and 
against, those against coming from the present incumbents, the 
motion was put and declared carried ; and the President declared 
the following to be the officers for the present year: President^ 
Dr. E. H. Shepard, Cleveland ; First Vice-President, Dr. W. E. 
Wight, Delaware; Second Vice-President, Dr. W. R. Howe, 
Dayton ; Secretary, Dr. W. H. Gribble, Elyria; Treasurer, Dn 
T. B. Hillock, Columbus. 
President Shepard made a brief address, referring chiefly to 
the drift of veterinary practice, owing to the use of electricity 
and the bicycle, also speaking of the necessity for a higher 
education at our veterinary colleges, and also that he wished 
that greater harmony prevailed between veterinarians and horse- 
shoers, and that he had taken the liberty of inviting to this 
meeting the President of the Ohio Master Horse-shoers Associa¬ 
tion, who had prepared a paper which would be read before this 
body, and he hoped it would be thoroughly discussed. 
Communications were read from absent members and others, 
and disposed of as those present thought best. 
The Secretary read his report, which was ordered printed as 
part of the minutes of the session. The report is as follows : 
Elyria, Ohio, January 28, 1897. 
At the last annual session of our association it was decided to meet in semi-annual 
session in Columbus, Ohio, some time during July. Shortly after that annual session it. 
was announced that Buffalo, New York, had been selected as the meeting place of the 
United States Veterinary Medical Association, and your Secretary at once began receiving 
letters asking if our semi-annual meeting could not be changed to the same time and place. 
After consultation with your officers it was decided that it would be just and right to allow 
the members who had chosen Columbus to change it to Buffalo if they so saw fit; so your 
Secretary wrote to each member that had been present at the annual meeting, stating the re¬ 
quests, and asking their preference in reference to the proposed change. Only one vote was 
recorded against the change ; so, with this authority, the call for the semi-annual meeting 
was made for Buffalo, New York, September I, 2, and 3 We were present, and must, 
confess ourself surprised at the small number of Ohio veterinarians present. It was one 
of the best meetings both socially and professionally it has ever been my pleasure to be 
present at. The papers read and discussed were not of the old stereotyped kind, but 
contained theory and fact for earnest consideration, while in social entertainment Buffalo 
veterinarians outdid themselves. It is unnecessary to enumerate these pleasures, so will 
simply say that the Ohio vets who missed that meeting, missed something out of the or¬ 
dinary, and if present would never have regretted the loss of time and money. 
Your Secretary has held this office since January, 1891, but finds that the past year 
has been his hardest to collect dues or receive answers to his letters ; it seems to us that 
common courtesy to the profession, if nothing else, would prompt a member to answer a 
letter, but it seems not to. 
The auditing committee of last year made an error of $10 in the Secretary’s favor;; 
