SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
515 
The society will hold its next annual meeting during Sep¬ 
tember at Ithaca. Claude D. Morris, Secretary. 
NOTES OF NEW YORK STATE MEETING. 
Those who attended the State meeting listened to the read¬ 
ing of some extremely valuable practical and scientific papers. 
The A. V. M. A. overshadowed the State meeting numeri¬ 
cally only, for many who attended both thought the proceed¬ 
ings of the latter equally interesting and instructive. 
Dr. Claude D. Morris placed himself right before the society 
in denying in unmeasured terms a report that he had given 
utterance to the opinion that tuberculosis could arise from un¬ 
sanitary conditions simply. The correct interpretation of his 
remarks would have made him responsible for the assertion 
that where the tubercle bacillus is present its development is 
greatly facilitated by lack of proper sanitation, and is greatly 
retarded where sanitary measures are in existence. 
The question of clinics at the next State meeting is already 
being agitated. Excellent facilities can be obtained at Ithaca, 
there are many eminent surgeons within the membership, and 
it will undoubtedly greatly enhance the value of the meeting. 
Under suspension of the by-laws by unanimous vote, the 
society elected to honorary membership two members of the' 
medical profession, Professors Veranus A. Moore and Simon H. 
Gage, of the New York State Veterinary College, two gentle¬ 
men who have at recent meetings presented some valuable con¬ 
tributions to comparative pathology in the field of sanitary 
medicine. This graceful act on the part of the society was not 
only to recognize these services to the profession, but to encour¬ 
age them to further efforts in our behalf. 
During the reading of Professor Moore’s paper on u Strep¬ 
tococci,” as found in the pus of u foot rot ” in sheep—which the 
Review has made arrangements to publish during the coming 
winter—Dr. George H. Berns, of Brooklyn, became rapturously 
absorbed, believing that the essayist was unraveling the etiologi¬ 
cal mystery surrounding that somewhat common disease of city 
horses termed by Berns and others u suppurative cellulitis.” 
One thing seems certain : The cause of the latter affection will 
only be found when studied after the fashion of the essayist. 
Dr. Eeonard Pearson, State Veterinarian of Pennsylvania, 
appeared before the society and gave a very practical talk upon 
the subject of the practical control of contagious diseases among 
