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SOCIETY MEETING8. 
ALUMNI OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
The seventh annual meeting of the American Veterinary Col¬ 
lege Alntnni Association was held in New York, at 11 a.m, Tues¬ 
day, March 4th, 1884. President McLean presided. The 
following members were present: Drs. Miller, Fields, Coates, 
Hoskins, McLean, Boyd, Critcherson, Kay, Johnson, Michener, 
Goentner, Kemp, Peabody, Pendry, Austin Peters, Noyes, 
Dixon and Autenrieth. The minutes of the sixth annual and 
special meetings were read and approved. Dr. Coates reported 
for Committee on Alumni Prize, that he had secured as the 
prizes the following works: Loomis on Theory and Practice, 
Physical Diagnosis and Wagner on General Pathology, and the 
same would be presented to the successful candidate of the class of 
’84, at the commencement exercises. Dr. Coates then, on behalf 
of the Committee on Portrait of Prof. A. Liautard, reported the 
completion of their work, and the portrait was brought before 
the Association, eliciting much applause and admiration. The 
Committee’s report was received and they were discharged with 
a vote of thanks. 
Admission of new members being in order, a motion was 
made that a committee be appointed to invite them to the meet¬ 
ing, which being adopted, the President appointed Drs. Dixon, 
Michener and Miller, who, after a recess of five minutes, pre¬ 
sented the following members: Drs. Otto, Ryder, White, Vree- 
land, Helm, Allen, Loblein, Knowles and Vogt. The Secretary 
was directed to confer with the other members of the class of 
’84. 
The reading of the history of the Alumni Association by Dr. 
Hoskins was then listened to. At its conclusion a vote of thanks 
was tendered the writer, after which it was decided to purchase 
a book, in which it should be recorded and preserved, and that 
future additions might be made by the Secretaries; that a copy of 
the same be handed the editor of the American Veterinary 
Review for publication, and a thousand copies be printed in 
pamphlet form and circulated among the alumni and friends of 
the College. This work was entrusted to the Executive Com- 
