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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
Snyder, S. S., Cedarburg, Wis. 
Stauffer, Adolf, 19 E. nth St., Covington, Ky. 
Summerfield, Jas. J., Santa Rosa, Cal. 
Titus, Harry E., Purdue Univ., Eafayette, Ind. 
Torrance, F., Winnipeg, Man. 
Van Es, E., Mobile, Ala. 
Wake, A. R., Cudahy, Wis. 
Yonkerman, D. P., Kalamazoo, Mich. 
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 
The Publication Committee of 1899, through Chairman 
Williams, made a short but comprehensive report, showing the 
work performed by it, which report was accepted by the asso¬ 
ciation. 
The Army Legislative Committee then submitted its report 
through Chairman Salmon, which was as follows : 
REPORT OE COMMITTEE ON ARMY LEGISLATION. 
Mk. President: * 
Your committee which was appointed to urge suitable legislation for 
the improvement of the veterinary service in the United States Army and 
for the recognition of veterinarians in that service as representatives of 
a learned profession, would respectfully report that they have labored 
diligently to secure the desired objects and that a satisfactory measure is 
now pending. It is not necessary to go into details concerning the oppo¬ 
sition which has been experienced. The opposition which has been most 
determined and most difficult to overcome has originated in the very 
department whose service we have been endeavoring to strengthen and 
perfect—the one department which would be benefitted by this legisla¬ 
tion. The cause of this opposition appears to be principally the old 
narrow-minded and unAmerican prejudice existing against veterinarians 
among certain of the Army officers—principally the lieutenants. There 
is undoubtedly a feeling among this order of gentlemen that when a 
man be'comes a lieutenant he belongs in a class by himself, that he is 
superior to and made of finer clay than ordinary mortals and subject to 
contamination if he associates with them on equal terms. He regards 
himself, like the Chinese sovereign, as the Son of Heaven, to wffiom all 
should bow down and render obeisance. He expects to be gazed at from 
afar, admired, feared, but he cannot endure the idea of equality, famil¬ 
iarity, least of all with veterinarians. According to his philosophy, if 
one son chooses as his profession the destruction of his fellow-man and 
in due time becomes a second lieutenant, and another son in the same 
family chooses as his life w T ork the amelioration of suffering among 
God’s dumb creatures, the latter, though equally refined, equally edu¬ 
cated, equally intelligent, is unfit to associate with the former ! 
This absurd self-conceit, arrogance and bumptiousness, notwith¬ 
standing that it has done much to render the army unpopular with the 
masses of Pur people, and is doing its part towards preventing an in¬ 
crease commensurate with the development and needs of the country, has 
