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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
as state veterinarian or member of state board having control 
of contagious diseases of animals, in the ranks of the great Bu¬ 
reau of Animal Industry, in the laboratory and in the field, the 
veterinarian has found his scope of usefulness gradually chang¬ 
ing and enlarging, and the public demanding qualifications com¬ 
mensurate with its better knowledge of the wonderful evolu¬ 
tion of medical science. 
The veterinarian has not been found wanting, but is to-day 
to be found in every portion of our country doing the work ex¬ 
pected of him, not only as I have before said as the well trained 
veterinarian skilled in the treatment of diseased animals, but 
as the worker in the relatively new science of prophylactic 
medicine. 
Now, then, whether or not in the development of veterinary 
science in the past twenty years, whether or not in the advance 
made in comparative medicine purely, whether or not in the re¬ 
sulting growth in the number of institutions fitted for the train¬ 
ing of the veterinary practitioner, the teacher of comparative 
medicine and the public health official, whether or not in filling 
all the many demands of the highest development of veterinary 
and comparative medicine, our alma mater has done its share, 
we have only to familiarize ourselves with the history of such 
development in this country to answer, we can truly say, its 
history is our history. Not only do we include in our ranks 
many men now well known and of high reputations in the 
great army of general practitioners, but a glance at the list of 
veterinarians connected with the educational institutions of the 
country, as organizers, teachers or directors, shows that many 
of them received their training within these walls. In the var¬ 
ious state veterinary medical associations and in the national 
organization, our men have been prominently active and the 
workers to whom much of their success have been due. In of¬ 
ficial positions, municipal, state and national, many of onr fel¬ 
low alumni are to be found, who by their work are establishing 
a meritorious name for themselves and adding to the credit of 
their alma mater, besides returning to the people of their re- ’ 
spective communities benefits not capable of being measured or 
calculated in their effect upon the future of the human race. 
Therefore, on this, our twentieth anniversary, let us congrat¬ 
ulate ourselves on our present situation, and the part we have 
played in whatever of improvement, progress or benefit, has 
come to our chosen profession since our organization twenty 
years ago. 
