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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
received and adopted,'showing the finances to be in a healthy 
state. 
The Register reported a steady increase in the number of 
practitioners registering. Still, there were many qualified prac¬ 
titioners in the Province who were neglecting to register. 
The Secretary produced a number of communications from 
graduates on subjects of interest, also from Acton Borrows, Esq., 
Dep. Minister of Agriculture, Manitoba, enclosing crop-statistics, 
health and veterinary reports, etc., also a copy of an agricultural 
act just passed, which places the veterinary profession in a good 
position in that Province. 
A discussion then took place as to changing the date of our 
annual meeting. It was decided not to change it. But it was 
resolved “ that we have a summer meeting next August.” 
The election of officers then took place with the following re¬ 
sult : Mr. O’Neil, of London, President; Mr. Coleman, of Ottawa, 
1st Vice President; Mr. Lloyd, of Newmarket, 2d Vice President; 
Mr. Cowan, of Galt, Treasurer ; Mr. Sweetapple, of Ottawa, Sec¬ 
retary. Messrs. Elliott, J. S. Caesar, Carter, Badgerow, Hamil¬ 
ton, Shaw, Quinn, and Beatty, Directors ; Prof. Smith, Honor¬ 
ary Director; Messrs. Steele and Austin, Auditors. 
Dr. Duncan was then called on, and read a paper on Actino¬ 
myces, which he had discovered in the tongue of an ox. This is, 
so far as reported, the first case in America in which the vegeta¬ 
ble parasite has been found in the tongue. In Germany and Eng¬ 
land the disease of which this is the cause has recently been inves¬ 
tigated and described. The actinomyces flourish both in man and 
animals, when once having obtained access to the organism. The 
parasite is a sort of mould, having close affinities with Penicil- 
lium glancusa, the ordinary green mould of old leather. The 
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actinomyces, however, show a distinct radiating structure under 
the microscope. When this mould enters the body under favor¬ 
able circumstances, it propagates itself rapidly. If in man, the 
tendency is to suppurative processes, but in the lower animals, the 
result of the infection is seen in tumors of the jaw bones, (the 
osteo sarcoma of * the older writers), pharynx, skin, udder, lungs, 
and tongue. This last affection is usually called tubercular in its 
