SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
579 
The second amendment to Articje VIII, Chapter i, was car¬ 
ried by unanimous consent, which relates to the initiation fee 
and annual dues accompanying the application of future candi¬ 
dates. If such applicant is accepted, such fees and dues to be 
appropriated to the use of the society. If rejected, the money 
to be refunded. 
The reports by the county secretaries were both interesting 
and instructive. The reports show plainly that the society has 
inaugurated a movement in behalf of sanitary work, which is 
producing excellent results. Several local boards of health now 
employ a veterinarian, whose duty is to inspect the meat and 
milk supply of his neighborhood or district. 
The Committee on legislation, through its Chairman, Dr. 
Kelly, rendered a full report of work done during the last ses¬ 
sion of the Legislature. This report was accepted. A supple¬ 
mentary report of this work was submitted by Prof. Law, a 
member of the Legislative Committee, which report dealt with 
matters pertaining to the Public Health Department of the 
State, and its relation to the Tuberculosis Commission, with a 
suggestion that inasmuch as the Departments of Health and 
Agriculture could not agree on matters supporting the Tuber¬ 
culosis Commission, that a new commission be formed, com¬ 
posed of three men, namely, the Secretary of the State Board of 
Health, the Commissioner of Agriculture and the Director of 
the New York State Veterinary College. In support of this 
compromise, it was shown by Drs. Law, Kelly and Morris, that 
such a commission would represent all interests and harmonize 
whatever feeling that exists in these two departments towards 
each other, in support of a great sanitary work, and that in the 
end the public would reap the greatest benefit. This feature of 
Prof. Law’s report brought forth a vigorous protest from Drs. 
Gill and Bell, each representing respectively the veterinary 
schools of New York City. Their argument was that such a 
measure ignored the pioneer veterinary colleges of the State, 
and that the tendency at the State College (through the Direc¬ 
tor) was to centralize the function of the veterinary profession 
throughout the State in the interests of the State College. After 
some further discussion of the matter, the question was ordered 
to be laid on the table. 
Reading of professional papers being in order. Prof. Law 
gave a very instructive paper on “ How to Prepare Contagions 
Products for Shipment to the Pathological Laboratory.”* The 
* Printed elsewhere in this number. 
