SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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SOCIETY MEETINGS, 
MONTREAL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
This Association held its opening meeting for the winter ses¬ 
sion of 1880-81 in the lecture-room of the Veterinary College, 
Union Avenue, on Thursday evening last—the President, Dr. 
Osier, in the chair. The President opened with an address to the 
members, before retiring from office. The meeting then pro¬ 
ceeded to the election of officers for the ensuing session, with the 
following result:—President, C. J. Alloway, V.S.; 1st Vice 
President, James Bell, M.D., 2nd Vice President, M. C. Baker, 
V. S.; Secretary and Treasurer, E. J. Carter; Librarian, B. D. 
Pierce. 
Mr. Alloway then took the chair, and addressed the meeting; 
followed by Professor McEachran, Honorary President, who ex¬ 
pressed his satisfaction upon the prosperous condition of the 
Association and the library connected with it. which is now one of 
the most valuable on this continent, containing all the oldest and 
the most recent works on veterinary and collateral sciences. He 
also pointed out the benefits to be derived by the members of the 
Association from their meeting together for the purpose of hear¬ 
ing papers read and discussed. 
The following gentlemen were proposed as members of the 
Association:—A. W. Clement, Geo. W. Goetz, T. J. O’Connol, 
Alfred W. Mears, James Brodie, J. A. Duncan, P. Paquin, E. 
Paquin, P. A. Pomroy, L. W. Bergeron, C. B. Robinson, Pierre 
Gadbois, V. T. Daubigny, V.S., R. T. Whittlesey and William 
Lemay. 
A vote of thanks was passed to the retiring officers. 
At the next meeting, on the 28th instant, Prof. McEachran 
will read a paper on the important subject of “Tuberculosis of 
cattle and its relation to public health.” A communication will 
also be read on “Purpura Hoemorrhagicas,” by Mr. Chas. H. 
Ormond. 
