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determine the relation of the corpus luteum to the number of 
foetuses in usually uniparous animals where twins or triplets are 
born, especially as governed by the investing foetal envelopes. 
Dr. Grant S. Hopkins read the result of his researches to 
settle the discrepancy existing between surgeons and anatomists 
as to whether a mucous bursa exists between the cervical portion 
of the liganientum nuchae and the first and second cervical verte¬ 
brae, as the anatomists fail to mention such a structure, while 
the surgeons have no difficulty in finding it. The result of 25 
autopsies showed that the former are correct, and that what the 
surgeons call a mucous bursa is a pathological condition. 
“ A Simple Test for Albumen in the Urine ” was by Dr. 
Fish, and will be found elsewhere in this issue. 
In deciding the next meeting place the association had to 
resort to balloting, as there were some six or seven candidates, 
among them New York, Albany, Ithaca, Syracuse, Bingham¬ 
ton and Buffalo. Ithaca won, with the provision that if the next 
meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Association oc¬ 
curs within the State of New York, the State Society will meet 
simultaneously in the same city which it selects. 
When adjournment took place at six o’clock on the after¬ 
noon of the second day, after the adoption of some very vigor¬ 
ous resolutions regarding the State’s methods in dealing with 
animal diseases, it was the expressed belief of all that this was 
by long odds the most valuable meeting in the history of the 
Society. 
NOTES OF THE NEW YORK STATE MEETING. 
Certainly the best meeting of this Society ever held in the 
Metropolitan district. 
The New York City members attended in goodly numbers ; 
not so many as should have turned out, however. 
Only two applications for membership ! We had anticipated 
twenty. 
But the papers were numerous and of a high order ; the dis¬ 
cussions were animated and instructive. 
The members expressed themselves as well repaid for their 
trip. 
The trip to Coney Island and the shore dinner were greatly 
enjoyed by all. 
Dr. Gill took a party of the members through the park and 
up the Riverside Drive in carriages on the morning of the second 
day. 
