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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
hamton; James McKee, Staten Island ; L. McKean, Brook¬ 
lyn ; C. J, Mnlvey, Modus; Arthur O’Shea, New York City ; 
T. F. O’Dea, Saugerties ; J. E. Ryder, New York City ; W. h! 
Williams, Ithaca. 
There were also present the following members of the pro¬ 
fession : Thomas G. Sherwood, New York City ; Ernest Buck- 
ley, East Orange, N. J. ; Benj. D. Pierce, Springfield, Mass. ; 
C. A. Gleason, Rye, N. Y. ; G. S. Hopkins, Ithaca; H. J. 
Brotheridge, Brooklyn; V. A. Moore, Ithaca; M. Kenney, 
New York City ; B. Gunther, Brooklyn; S. R. Ellison, M. D.’ 
New York City ; S. H. Gage, Ithaca ; Thomas H. Doyle, New 
York City ; Olof Schwarzkopf, F'lnshing ; W. C. Bretherton, 
New York City; Wilfred Eellman, New York City; R. o! 
Hasbronck, Passaic, N. J. ; A. D. Moeller, Brooklyn ; E. R. 
Santer, Newark, N. J. 
The members were given a cordial welcome to New York 
by Dr. Robert W. Ellis, cn behalf of the County Veterinary 
Medical Association, in a very neat address, which was re¬ 
sponded to by Prof. Raw on behalf of the visitors. 
The nominations of two members to fill the vacancy on the 
State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners occasioned by the 
resignation of Dr. Huidekoper brought forward the names of 
Drs. George H. Berns, of Brooklyn, and W. E. Baker, of Cort¬ 
land, and one of these will be selected by the Governor. 
The usual executive business having been completed, the 
County Secretaries made their reports, that from New York 
provoking a very lively discussion upon the subject of tubercu¬ 
losis, it being stimulated by the present action of the New York 
City Board of Health in testing dairy cattle with tuberculin and 
destroying all that react without any compensation to the owner. 
While it was generally admitted that tuberculous cows should 
not occupy dairy stables, there was decided difference of opinion 
as to the justice of confiscating the meat of all reacting animals, 
whether the post-mortem revealed an enlarged bronchial or 
mesenteric gland or whether affected with the disease in a gen¬ 
eralized form. The hope was expressed that the State would 
make an appropriation to compensate the dairymen. In the 
course of the discussion it was shown that the latter were en¬ 
deavoring to protect themselves by employing private testing of 
their herds, enabling them to slaughter the reactors, many of 
which pass the meat inspectors as suitable for human consump¬ 
tion. 
There were two applications for membership—Drs. Samuel 
