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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The thirty-seventh annual meeting was called to order at 
10.15 A.M., Sept. 4, by President Leonard Pearson, in the large 
convention hall of the Russell House, Detroit, Mich., in the 
presence of over two hundred members, visitors and ladies. 
President Pearson announced that Hon. Wm. C. Mayberry, 
Mayor of Detroit, would address the Convention, which he did 
in a manner that won all hearts, and when he had extended 
the hospitality of the citizens of the beautiful city which he 
represents, all felt that they were indeed welcome. His ad¬ 
dress was full of beautiful thoughts apropos to the character of 
his auditors. He compared the purposes of this gathering— 
the dissemination of scientific knowledge ; the interchange of 
medical truths gathered through research or experience—with 
the methods of a century ago, when any medical secret was 
carefully guarded for the personal pecuniary advantage of its 
possessor, whose death usually caused the obliteration of his 
secret, and the world of medicine was none the better for the 
discovery. But now the archives were at once sought and 
there the fact was recorded for the benefit of mankind and the 
science of medicine, while others are at liberty to take up the 
subject, more fully develop it and place it back in the records 
for the common good. He paid a glowing tribute to the work 
of the late Henry Bergh, and when he had finished the applause 
was long and loud. 
Dr. W. Horace Hoskins, of Philadelphia, was called upon 
to respond to the Mayor, and he did so in that happy strain 
that makes him a welcome guest wherever public speaking is 
a feature. He deprecated the fact that his appearance on the 
platform with Mayor Mayberry made an unpleasant contrast, 
since the latter represented a successful Democratic mayoralty 
candidate, while he stood as an example of a defeated one. 
But he made some telling points while accepting the Mayor’s 
generous hospitality by notifying him of his wonderful oppor¬ 
tunities for good while directing municipal affairs, as the im¬ 
portant subject of the purity of food products was ever press¬ 
ing for solution. 
President Pearson then read his annual address, which was 
listened to with the closest attention. The following is the 
full text of 
