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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
then called upon to state the object of the meeting, and in so 
doing, refered to the call that had been issued in the United 
States Veterinary Journal and Michigan Farmer , saying that 
its chief object had there been set forth, namely, the formation of 
a State Veterinary Association. 
A committee was then appointed to draft the Constitution ; 
also, a committee on credentials. After their several reports were 
adopted, The Michigan State Veterinary Medical Association 
was duly organized by the election of the following officers: 
President, J. Hawkins, Detroit; 1st Vice-President, D. G. 
Sutherland, East Saginaw; 2d Vice-President, A. J. Murry, 
Detroit; 3d Vice-President, D. Cummings, Port Huron; JRe- 
cording Secretary, A. J. Chandler, Detroit; Corresponding 
Secretary, J. A. Dell, Ann Arbor; Treasurer, S. Brenton, Jack- 
son. Board of Censors, A. J. Murry, D. G. Sutherland, J. 
Hawkins. The United States Veterinary Journal was adopted 
as the organ of the Association. 
Mr. J. E. Daniels, Secretary and manager of the Journal , 
returned his thanks to the Association for the compliment, and 
in a somewhat lengthy address, spoke of the benefits to be derived 
from such organizations. 
After appointing Dr. Chandler, of Detroit,) to prepare a 
paper on Glanders, and Dr. Dell, of Ann Arbor, on Tuberculosis, 
to be read at the next meeting, the Association adjourned to 
meet at Detroit, on Wednesday, September 19th, 1883. 
UNITED STATES VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The twenty-first annual meeting of the United States 
Veterinary Medical Association will be held in the lecture room 
of the American Veterinary College, 141 West 54th street, New 
York city, on Tuesday, September 18, 1883, at 10 o’clock, a.m. 
Election of officers, papers and discussion, and other business 
will come before the meeting. 
Ch. B. Michener, Secy. 
