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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
Tlie urgent need of snch legislation must he manifest to all who 
will consider the great value of the cattle detained in the quaran¬ 
tine grounds, and the extreme danger of maintaining in these 
grounds, even for a day, a sick animal which is rapidly multiply¬ 
ing a disease-germ to which the other herds are susceptible. With 
the preservation of such sick animals the quarantine station becomes 
an infected place, and in case of the infection of other herds the 
responsibility must rest on the government, which has compul¬ 
sorily detained them in close proximity. We trust that this mat¬ 
ter may be brought before Congress as a provision rendered neces¬ 
sary by the existing quarantine. 
Respectfully submitted. 
James Law. 
E. F. Thayer. 
J. H. Sanders. 
Hon. Charles J. Folger, 
Secretary of the Treasury. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
UNITED STATES VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The twentieth semi-annual meeting of this Association was 
held Tuesday, March 20, at Young’s Hotel, Boston. There were 
assembled over thirty veterinarians, from the different Eastern 
and Middle States. 
The session of Comitia Minora was a short one; the only 
business before it being the recomendation of candidates for ad¬ 
mission to membership. In the general meeting, after reading of 
minutes, the first business was instructing the Secretary to have 
printed a number of copies of the Constitution and By-Laws. 
The committee appointed to investigate the value of the Pas¬ 
teur method of inoculation, reported that they could go no further 
until the arrival of fresh supplies of virus. It is expected that 
experiments with anthrax virus can be seen in progress at the 
next meeting of the Association, which will be held at the Ameri¬ 
can Veterinary College, the third Tuesday in September. 
The committees on education and intelligence, and diseases, 
will report at the annual meeting. 
