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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
fine display in the lobby of the Tulane Hotel, and his tables 
were the scene of much interest to the members, who examined 
the many recently improved and invented instruments, making- 
all kinds of comments and inquiries. No other house sent a 
representative. 
Everything was hot at Nashville—even the weather. 
They were there from Nebraska to Alabama, and from Texas 
to Canada. 
There was quite a change in sentiment toward tuberculosis 
as compared with the Buffalo meeting, and it was Dr. Clement’s 
turn to smile. 
A recent correspondent of the Journal^ ridiculing the exist¬ 
ence of genuine rabies, was sat upon by the Resolutions Com¬ 
mittee. 
Reduction in annual dues and more members was the slogan, 
and if the one shall produce the other, all should be happy. 
“ Let every member have a vote for the officers, whether he 
can attend the meetings or not,” says ex-President Osgood. 
The gray locks of the new President are very becoming. 
The Dean of the United States College of Veterinary Sur¬ 
geons waxed very forceful before the Faculties. 
The movement to unite the Faculties and the Examining- 
Boards has taken definite form in that a written notice of change 
of by-laws has been filed. 
Quite a delegation stopped over at Chattanooga, visiting 
Lookout Mountain, with a drive through her beautiful parks; 
others spent a day or two at Asheville, and through the courtesy 
of Dr. Wheeler, of Biltmore, were shown through the wonderful 
Vanderbilt estate, while a few others visited Mammoth Cave in 
Kentucky. 
Major McCann would be a drawing card for any city bidding 
for the veterinary convention. 
The newspapers of Nashville gave long accounts of each 
day’s proceedings and the Banner published the portraits of 
many. We noticed the familiar faces of President Osgood, Vice- 
President Bell, Secretary Stewart, Vice-President-elect Thomas 
B. Rayner, his brother, James B. Rayner, Doctors Hoskins, Gill, 
Williams, Ackerman, Pearson, Foelker, Hinkley and Cary. 
Two faces greatly missed at Nashville were those of James 
L. Robertson and William Dougherty. 
Osteo-porosis seems to be a very attractive subject to veteri- 
