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of Veterinary Surgeons, Professor Robinson ; Chicago Veteri¬ 
nary College, Professor Baker. (The Ontario Veterinary Col¬ 
lege, New York College of Veterinary Surgeons, Harvard and 
McGill Universities were without representatives.) Examining 
Boards —Pennsylvania, Dr. Hoskins ; Maryland, Dr. Clement ; 
New York, Dr. Kelly. 
The amendment to the Constitution to change the name of 
the association from the “ Association of Veterinary Faculties 
of North America ” to the “ Assocation of Veterinary Faculties 
and Examining Boards of North America,” was adopted. 
The principal feature of the meeting was the report of the 
special committee to consider the advisability of forming a 
National Examining Board, and that a provision should be 
made for a co-operation with State associations to secure a uni¬ 
form provision in their legislation authorizing the Examining 
Boards to establish the standard of examinaton and to accept 
the certificate of other boards that have satisfactory require¬ 
ments. Professor Law read a lengthy report, disapproving of 
the proposition, based chiefly upon the case of New York State, 
which has a very much higher preliminary requirement than 
any other State having an Examining Board, and contending 
that it would be manifestly unfair to admit practitioners within 
the State whose preliminary education was far beneath that ex¬ 
acted of its own graduates. For this reason chiefly New York 
could not enter into any such compact. Other speakers upon this 
subject were Drs. Hoskins, Clement, Robinson, Baker, Stalker, 
Pearson, Kelly, Merillat, Salmon and Bell. It was the generally 
expressed conclusion that such a board was impracticable, and 
the question was dropped. 
Professor Merillat thought that the association had accom¬ 
plished very little since its organization, and believed more 
good could be done by discussing methods of teaching, and 
studying the best means of doing their duty to students. Pro¬ 
fessor Stalker spoke in the same strain, saying that he had sat 
in the meetings in the past and heard the propositions to do 
legislative work for the colleges with a feeling that the efforts 
were futile and useless, and he was glad that the question was 
settled, and hoped now that at the meetings the association 
would take up such work as suggested by Professor Merillat. 
After some further discussion, officers were elected as fol¬ 
lows : President, Prof. M. Stalker, of Iowa Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, Ames, la.; Secretary, Prof. L. A. Merrillat, of McKillip 
Veterinary College, Chicago, Ill. 
