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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
amelioration of teachers as individuals instead of that of the 
colleges as a whole. That is to say, the sentiment of transforming 
the society into a teachers’ institute was freely expressed. I found 
it impossible to attend the meeting—a circumstance I very 
much regret, but I expected to send the association’s property 
to New York with Dr. Stalker when he passed through Chicago 
en route to the meeting. Although he had once during the 
summer expressed some doubt as to his ability to attend, I did 
not for one moment doubt that he would be there to preside. In 
this I erred, and when the error was realized it was too late to 
send the books. 
This circumstance should not, however, materially affect the 
future of the institution, and if it has received its death-blow 
from this circumstance the prognosis must have been unfavor¬ 
able any way. I trust I am not too optimistic when I see in the 
masterly address of Law, the scholarly essay of Harger, the lucid, 
instructive discussion of Williams, and the paper of Clement on 
“State Examinations,” the foundation of a useful and progres¬ 
sive Veterinary Teachers’ Institute (See An. Rpt. Am. V. M. 
A., 1899.) Let 11s hope that such an organization will be born 
of the obsolete one. So far as the u Examining Board contin¬ 
gent ” is concerned there need be no impediment, as the rela¬ 
tions between the teacher and examiner must always be a close \ 
one. 
Unless lawfully impeached, I shall act under the constitu¬ 
tional clause that compels officers to retain their seats until their 
successors are duly inaugurated. Discussions through these 
columns are solicited. L. A. Merillat, 
Secret ary-Treasurer. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
MISSOURI VALLEY VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
(Continued from page 6 / 6 .) 
Dr. J. A. Sloan then presented the following paper on 
COUNTER-IRRITANTS. 
A counter-irritant is a drug or process by means of which an 
irritation is produced in one or more parts of the body with the 
view of relieving one already existing in another part and for 
the purpose of strengthening some part or to hasten the repara¬ 
tive process of some part. As a remedial process it occupies a 
