SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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MASSACHUSETTS VETERINARY ASSOCIATION. 
The regular monthly meeting of the Massachusetts Veterinary Association 
was held at 19 Boylston Place, Boston, Wednesday evening, June 3d. 
In the absence of the President, Vice President J. S. Saunders presided, and 
there were present Doctors Alderman, Blackwood, Bryden, Bunker, Harrison, 
Howard, Osgood, F. Saunders, Simmons, Skally, Winchester and Winslow. 
After the reading of minutes of the previous meeting, the following business 
was transacted. 
Inquiry being made as to progress of Committee on Charter, they reported, 
that owing to the close of the session of Legislature, no progress could be made at 
present. Some discussion taking place as to the legal points of the matter, Dr. 
Osgood moved that the committee be authorized to consult a lawyer. Dr. Bryden 
offered an amendment that Dr. Winchester be authorized to consult Attorney 
General Sherman. Amendment accepted^and motion carried. 
The committee appointed at the May meeting to prepare resolutions cen¬ 
suring the pursuance of the so-called “ Subscription Plan” by different veterinary 
institutions, reported the following for the consideration of the meeting: 
Whereon, We, the Massachusetts Veterinary Association, a body composed 
of regularly graduated veterinarians, having for its objects the elevation and 
advancement of the veterinary profession and the science of veterinary medicine, 
the encouragement of collegiate and professional feelings among the members of 
the profession practising in the State of Massachusetts, and 
Whereas , We believe such objects are only to be attained by each member of 
the profession as an individual, and each organization as a body, using its every 
effort to that end, commending and applauding whatever advances and honors 
the cause, and discouraging and condemning that which dishonors it and retards 
progress, and 
Whereas , A system of business management pursued by different veterinary 
institutions in this country and England and known as the “Subscription Plan,” 
has, in the experience of our confreres, been derogatory and detrimental to the 
best interests of the science and profession, and 
Whereas, We, the members of the Massachusetts Veterinary Association, 
have realized by our own experience that the said “ Subscription Plan ” as pur¬ 
sued by the management of the Harvard Veterinary Hospital in this city and 
State, is repeating its disgraceful history in exerting a most injurious influence 
upon members of the profession practising in the State of Massachusetts, is already 
threatening defeat to the objects of this Association, and is thereby a foe to the 
cause of veterinary science and the veterinary profession; be it therefore 
Resolved, That we, the members of the Massachusetts Veterinary Association, 
in meeting assembled, do hereby as a body, express our disapproval" and con¬ 
demnation of the adoption and continued pursuance by the management of the 
Harvard Veterinary Hospital, of the said “ Subscription Plan,” and be it 
Resolved, That it is the duty of every member of this Association to use his 
utmost influence to have said plan discontinued and abolished. 
John S. Saunders, D.V.S. ) 
Madison Bunker, D.V.S. Committee. 
L. H. Howard, D.V.S. ) 
