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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
UNITED STATES VETERINARY MEDICAE ASSOCIATION. 
President Salmon announces the appointment of the follow¬ 
ing committees: 
Executive —T. S. Butler (Chairman), F. H. Osgood, W. 
Horace Hoskins, W. L- Williams, T. J. Turner, M. Stalker, M. 
H. Reynolds. 
Publication —W. L. Williams (Chairman), N. P. Hinkley, 
R. R. Bell, W. B. Niles, S. Stewart. 
Finance —M. Stalker (Chairman), M. H. McKillip, S. 
Stewart. 
Intelligence and Education —Leonard Pearson (Chairman), 
W. B. Niles, John M. Parker, Olof Schwarzkopf, R. R. Din¬ 
widdle. 
Diseases —A. T. Peters (Chairman), E. P. Niles, W. H. 
Dalrymple, Joseph Hughes, J. F. Winchester. 
Resolutions —A. W. Clement (Chairman), Leonard Pearson, 
C. A. Cary, A. T. Peters, S. Stewart. 
THE MONTREAL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The regular meeting of this association was held October 
14th in the library, the retiring President, Prof. Baker, occu¬ 
pying the chair. After roll-call and the reading of minutes of 
the previous meeting, which were accepted, the election of 
officers for the ensuing year, which had been postponed, took 
place, with the following results : President, Prof. Charles Mc- 
Eachran ; First Vice-President, Prof. M. C. Baker ; Second Vice- 
President, Dr. Martin; Secretary-Treasurer, W. B. Wallis; 
Librarian, J. P. Spanton. 
The retiring President then made a few farewell remarks, 
pointing out the advantages of such societies, especially to 
students, in educating them how to properly express themselves 
in public, and also that the reading of essays necessitated a man 
getting up his subject exceptionally well, in order to properly 
defend his paper. 
The newly-elected President then took the chair, and, after 
expressing his appreciation of the honor done him, urged upon 
the members the value of practical work, and of the experi¬ 
mental committee in making- careful reoorts of the action of 
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drugs. 
Mr. Lambert being called upon by the President, read a 
practical though somewhat brief essay on the nature and treat¬ 
ment of inflammation. Treating his subject from a clinical 
