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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
any college of veterinary medicine, but have practiced ten years 
and studied all the text-books I could reach, and have met with 
success and am getting a good practice. I have never been able 
to find time and money to get through college, as I certainly 
should have liked to, and am not at enmity with the bill proposed. 
I shall do all I possibly can for it, and take my chances for future 
practice. I am with you in thus protecting the people at large 
as well as the profession. Now, what I wanted was this: Please 
write me at once what you want, and I will see that Clinton, 
Franklin and St. Lawrence counties are with us shoulder to 
shoulder. I can do all you ask me to get this part of the State 
for the bill. If you have any suggestion, or anything that will be 
of use to the advancement of veterinary medicine, I shall heartily 
work for all that is just for its cause. If you think this is of use 
to you, let me know in haste, so all can act on the approach of 
the bill. Yery respectfully, 
Dr. Geo. H. Kidney. 
OBITUARY. 
W. G. SCHMIDT. 
W. G. Schmidt, D.Y.S., of Newark, N. J., died suddenly on 
the 17th ult., from heart disease. He had returned home only a 
short time since, after recovering from a very severe attack of 
nervous disease, brought on by ambitious hard work, and every¬ 
thing seemed to indicate that he was to enjoy a long life, when, 
returning from a short promenade, he was suddenly taken away. 
Dr. Schmidt graduated at the American Yeterinary College, class 
. of 1878. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
NEW YORK STATE YETERINARY SOCIETY. 
The regular monthly meeting of the New York State Veterinary Society was 
held at the American Yeterinary College, New York, on Tuesday, February 9, 
the President in the chair. 
Members present were: Drs. Burden, Berns, J. S. Cattanach, Bretherton, 
R. W. Finlay, Dixon, Jacobus, R! Ogle, Denslow, Kay, Pendry, Faust and 
R. M. McLean. 
