SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The thirty-sixth annual meeting of this association convened 
in the Hosack Room at the Academy of Medicine, New York 
City, Sept. 5, at 10.30. A. m., with the President, Dr. A. W. 
Clement, of Maryland, in the chair, Secretary Stewart record¬ 
ing. At the opening hour the. large room was well filled with 
members and visitors, there being about twenty-five ladies pres¬ 
ent. . Prof. James E. Robertson, President of the Veterinary 
Medical Association of New \ ork County, upon behalf of that 
association, welcomed the visitors to Gotham in a manner which 
made them all feel that the)/' were truly among those who ap¬ 
preciated their presence, to which Dr. D. E. Salmon responded 
in a most happy vein on behalf of the National Association. 
the president’s address. 
President Clement then asked Dr. Salmon to take the chair 
while he delivered his annual address as follows : 
In writing this, my inaugural address, I am ever mindful of the learn- 
***£ °I m y predecessors and their wide experience, which always crave 
them an amount of material ready at their hand for the wise and eSter- 
taming discussion of questions important to onr profession and beneficial 
to all those who may have listened to or read their addresses in our 
as my subject for to-day some one 
question of scientific import and deal with it as some of my predecessors 
would have done from this platform. But hampered as I am by the 
very prestige which has made this office so honorable, I shall not beo-in 
by shirking my duties, and in my humble w T ay as an every-day practi- 
dependent upon the revenue of his practice for his daily bread, but 
still deeply interested in our profession, I shall try to bring" before you 
a brief review of the past of veterinary medicine and to look a little way 
into the future and see what promises it has in store for us. 
This association, founded, as you know, by men whose names must 
be revered by all of us, established in the very first years of its existence 
certain rules and regulations for the guidance of its members, which 
were well thought out, and which have worked admirably for the bene¬ 
fit of all. As time went on certain changes in the Constitution and By- 
Eaws were made to suit the altered conditions as they arose, but in the 
111am our code of ethics is unchanged and the principles established by 
the founders still remain to-day, as the}' have ever been, a guide and a 
rule of conduct for the members, the legacy of wise and helpful parents. 
Beginning as it did in an humble way with semi-annual meetings of 
one day devoted in part to instruction and in part to pleasant sociat in¬ 
tercourse, its gatherings, confined to a few cities in the East, it has since 
developed so much and become so far-reaching as to require three whole 
days for any adequate discussion of matters strictly within its province, 
to meet the convenience of its members its meetings are now held in the 
