SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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i^st promising of the alumni, who located in the Bull’s 
ead District of New York City, soon after graduation, and at 
mice coinmaiided a leading position as a practical veterinarian. 
e had been for years prior to entering college in charge of the 
veterinary instrument department of the well-known house of 
Jo in Reynders & Co., and enjoyed an extensive acquaintance 
with yeteriiwians throughout the country. Just at the time of 
realizing his hopes, he was attacked by the insidious tubercu¬ 
losis, and lingered but a short time. 
Carlisle N. Darke, D. V. S., class of ’92, of Guttenberg, 
. J., another bright alumnus, in the flower of manhood, with 
brilliant prospects, hosts of friends, and everything to live for. 
J. J. Shoemaker, D. V. S., class of ’87, of Bluffton, Ind. 
who took a post-graduate course, having previously received his 
degree at the Ontario College. The particulars of his demise 
were not transmitted to us, simply the announcement. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
UNITED STATES VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
By a vote of 10 to 3 of the Executive Committee of this as¬ 
sociation Omaha, Nebraska, has been selected as the place for 
holding the thirty-fifth annual meeting, the dates of which are 
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Sept. 6, 7, and 8, 1808. 
^ We are already assured from the West that the next meet¬ 
ing will lack in nothing to equal, if not surpass, any former 
meeting, in attendance, entertainment, and programme 
o Nebraska State Associations are considering 
the feasibility of holding a joint meeting at Omaha, on the first 
day of the U. S. V. M. A. meeting. 
President Salmon announces the appointment of the follow¬ 
ing Committee on Army Eegislation : Dr. T. P Turner Fori 
Meyer, Va.XChairman); Dr. M. Stalker, Ainel, lowarDr A G 
\ogt Newark N. J. ; Dr. Austin Peters, Boston, Mass. ; Dr.’ K.’ 
P. Niles, Blacksburg, Va. 
The President has also just announced the Resident State 
Secretaries, which are as follows : x\labama, C. A. Cary Au- 
J- C. Norton, Phoenix; Arkansas, R. R.^Din- 
widdie Fayetteville ; California, Fred C. Pierce, 1724 Webster 
bt., Oakland ; Colorado, D. P. Frame, ii South Wasatch Ave., 
