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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
amount of innocent pleasure without diverting attention from 
the educational programme. For the first time the clinical fea¬ 
ture will be introduced at the meetings of this association, but 
it will be in the nature of an addition, and not a substitute, as 
the hours assigned the surgical clinics will encroach but little 
upon the regular programme. 
The papers announced up to date are as follows : 
u Metritis,” by J. A. Bell, V. S., of Watertown. 
u Spaying of Mares as a Remedy for Vice,” by A. H. Ide, 
V. S., of Utica. 
“ Rabies,” by Prof. Wilfred Lellman, of New York City. 
“ Castration by Tortion,” and demonstration of a casting 
method, by Charles Cowie, M. R. C. V. S., of Ogdensburg. 
u Swine Diseases in Clinton County,” by J. A. McCrank, D. 
V. S., of Plattsburgh. 
u Acute Indigestion ; Its Right and Wrong Treatment,” by 
Wm. B. Switzer, V. S., of Oswego. 
“Clinic and Microscopic Observations on a Case of So-called 
Hermaphroditism in the Horse,” by Profs. S. H. Gage and W. 
U. Williams, of Ithaca. 
“The Uses of Small Animals for Purposes of Diagnosis” 
(with demonstrations), by Prof. Veranus A. Moore, of Ithaca. 
“ The Clinical Features aud Therapeutics of the So-called 
Botryomycosis,” by Prof. W. U. Williams, of Ithaca. 
“ Results of Histologic and Bacteriologic Study of So-called 
Botryomycosis,” by Prof. Veranus A. Moore, of Ithaca. 
“-,” bv Robert W. Ellis, D. V. S., of New York 
City. 
“-,” by E. B. Ackerman, D. V. S., of Brooklyn. 
“-,” by Dr. Darby, of Fort Plain. 
The surgical clinics will be especially valuable and inter¬ 
esting, as the facilities for operating are exceptionally good. 
Chairman of Arrangements Williams is taking an absorbing 
interest in this part of the programme, and writes under date of 
July i6 as follows : “ We are planning for a thorough clinic, 
illustrating useful operations, with simple methods of confine¬ 
ment, and expect to demonstrate the spaying of mares, cows, 
bitches, and cats : the castration of cryptorchids, caudal myec¬ 
tomy for gripping of the reins, the various neurectomies and 
Dr. Merillat’s operation of arytenoideraphy, together with 
demonstrations of the methods of confining for operation by 
operating tables and stocks, with anaesthesia and antiseptics. A 
number of operators have signified their intention of taking 
