SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
547 
NEW YORK STATE VETERINARY MEDICAL 
SOCIETY. 
The tenth annual meeting of this society convened in the 
large lecture amphitheatre of the New York State Veterinary 
College, at Ithaca, on Wednesday, Sept. 12, at n A .. m., Presi- 
dent Roscoe R. Bell in the chair and Secretary Claude D. 
Morris recording, with about one hundred members of the pro¬ 
fession and a goodly number of ladies in attendance. The 
President called the meeting to order, and introduced the H011. 
T G Schurman, President of Cornell University, who welcomed 
the convention to Cornell and Ithaca in a splendid address,. in 
which he paid a high tribute to modern veterinary medicine 
and the character of the men engaged in its practice and teach¬ 
ing. Everyone felt the influence of his encouraging words, 
which were received with prolonged applause. 
President Bell responded to the welcoming address, assuring 
Mr. Schurman and the Ithacans that their warm words were 
appreciated and returned with great heartiness. 
At the conclusion of these formal ceremonies, 
THE president’s annuae address 
was then read, as follows : , . 
“ We have much cause for congratulation that the whole- 
souled invitation of the Ithacans to hold our meeting here tins 
vear was accepted, for never has our association met amidst 
such magnificent surroundings, with such bewitching an 
picturesque scenery, or with more generous hospitality. It is 
a great privilege to visit this magnificent seat of learning 
which stands as an everlasting testimonial to civilization an 
the glory of this commonwealth. To wander over the giea 
green campus, through the halls and amphitheatres of the uni¬ 
versity, and to ponder upon the vast facilities for instruction 
enjoved by the young men of the generation, is a revelation to 
most of us and a sign of hope that those who are to follow us 
will have greater opportunities to solve the problems of science 
than were vouchsafed to us and to our day. But we will be 
particularly interested in the School of Veterinary Medicine 
for it has taken a high type of education for its standard, and 
the members of its faculty are men of national reputation, and 
I am glad to say that we have the honor of numbering the 
most of them as among our most valuable and active members 
Those of the faculty who are ineligible through lack of a 
strictly veterinary degree have made themselves very welcome 
through their works in comparative medicine, and at 0111 last 
