SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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Dr. Harry D. Paxson, Fort Worth, Texas, from $1200 to 
$1460. 
Dr. George W. Pope, Supt. of Animal Quarantine Station 
at Garfield, N. J., from $1400 to $1600. 
Dr. Frank S. Tufts, Chicago, from $1200 to $1400. 
Dr. Harry N. Waller, formerly inspector in charge at Pitts¬ 
burg, transferred to same position at New York and promoted 
from $1600 to $1800. 
Dr. T. A. Geddes, stationed in England as inspector of live 
stock for importation. 
Dr. R. W. Hickman, formerly inspector in charge at New 
York, transferred to Washington and placed in charge of the 
Miscellaneous Division of the Bureau. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
MISSOURI VAEEEY VETERINARY ASSOCIATION. 
The twenty-fifth regular meeting was held in Kansas City 
October 29, 1900, with the following veterinarians present : 
Drs. W. R. Andress, R. Blanch, S. E. Bennett, F. F. Brown, R. 
H. Carswell, W. J. Fretz, John Forbes, B. F. Kaupp, R. C. 
Moore, N. B. Smith, S. Stewart, D. C. Hannawalt, Jas. Wilson, 
I* B. Wright, E. Eee, and about fifty veterinary students. 
From 2 to 5 p. m. a very instructive surgical clinic was held 
m the operating rooms of the Kansas City Veterinary College, 
which included a variety of recent operations. 
At 7.30 p. m. the meeting was called to order by the Presi- 
lent, Dr. John Forbes, of St. Joseph. After roll-call and read- 
ng of minutes of previous. meeting, Dr. S. Stewart, of Kansas 
-itv, chairman of the Eegislative Committee, gave a good ac- 
:ount of the work being done by that committee and by the 
committee of the Missouri Veterinary Medical Association to¬ 
wards securing legislation to regulate the practice of veterinary 
nedicine in the State of Missouri. The report was accepted and 
he committee continued. 
The following programme was presented : 
Dr. S. E. Bennett, u Age of the Horse as Revealed by the 
reetli.” 
Dr. S. Stewart, “ Report of the 37th Annual Meeting of the 
Vmerican Veterinary Medical Association.” 
Dr. B. F. Kaupp, “A Report of the 9th Annual Meeting of 
lie Missouri Veterinary Medical Association.” 
