SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
UNITED STATES VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
New York, Sept. 21st, 1880. 
The eighteenth annual meeting of the United States Veter¬ 
inary Medical Association was held yesterday in the lecture-room 
of the American Veterinary College, Prof. Jas. L. .Robertson 
presiding. 
The following members answered to their names at roll-call, 
viz.: Chas. Burden, J. C. Corlies. W. J. Coates, Thos. C. Cowhey, 
O. H. Flagg, S. S. Field, J. I). Hopkins, C. H. Hall, A. Liautard, 
A. Lockhart, C. P. Lyman, R. Laidlaw, C. B. Michener, W. B. E. 
Mill er, L. McLean, G. P. Penniman, C. H. Peabody, J. L. Robert¬ 
son, A. H. Rose, J. H. Stickney, Wm. Saunders, Wm. G. Schmidt) 
Wm. J. O. Sullivan, T. S. A r ery, and J. F. Winchester. 
Minutes of last meeting were read and adopted. 
Unfinished business being next in order, the amendment pro¬ 
posed by Hr. Liautard at the Boston meeting was considered. 
Art. 4, Sec. 1 of By Laws was read by the Secretary, as it stands 
and as per amendment. On motion of Hr. Liautard, the consid¬ 
eration of this proposed amendment was deferred. 
The Comitia Minora reported favorably to this meeting the 
following applicants for membership: H. B. Boyd, Wm. II. Rose, 
A. P- Weeks, Ralph Hall, P. Z. Colsson and J. Gerth, Jr., all 
being graduates of veterinary schools in good standing. Other gen ■ 
tlemen were proposed, whose credentials not having been brought 
before the Board of Censors, were deferred until the next regular 
meeting of the Association. A. Liautard, President of Com¬ 
mittee on Education and Intelligence, read an able paper on the 
subject of Veterinary Education, closing with: “I will now move 
that the motion made by me last March, relating to the examina¬ 
tion of candidates to membership, be rescinded : that the different 
veterinary schools of the country, through their Board of Trustees 
and Faculty, be urged to increase their requirements for matric¬ 
ulation, to lengthen the course of studies, and to have a board of 
