SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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Friday evening, Nov. 7th, Prof. Smith, President of the College, 
occupying the chair. Fifty-nine new members were enrolled. 
After introductory remarks by the chairman, pointing out the 
benefits to be derived from these meetings, the election of officers 
for the ensuing session was held, resulting as follows: Mr. J. 1. 
Whitehead, Delaware, Ont., Secretary; Mr. P. B. Page, Chicago, 
Ill., Treasurer; Mr. R Liddell, Cobourg, Ont., Librarian; Mr. G. 
Dunphy, Assistant Librarian. Mr. Whitehead communicated a 
case of contused wound, which gave rise to an instructive debate, 
which was followed by the chairman’s address; after which the 
meeting adjourned. 
MONTREAL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The fortnightly meeting of the Montreal Veterinary Medical 
Association was held in the lecture room of the College, on 
Thursday evening last, November 20th, Professor McEacliran in 
the chair. 
After business of Association was finished, the Chairman 
called upon Mr. Peter Cummings to read his communication on 
Superficial Necrosis of the Os Pedis. 
Mr. Cummings described the case in full detail. The reading 
of the same was listened to with great interest b} 7 those present. 
Mr. Charles Ormond, of Milwaukee, read a very interesting 
paper on Bone-Spavin, in which he evinced a more than common 
of the nature of this disease, the causes on which it 
depends and the changes that take place in the joint. In his 
treatment he described a method much practised by his father, 
Mr. W. M. Ormond, of Milwaukee, by which he claimed to be 
more than ordinarily successful in restoring the animal to useful¬ 
ness, viz., cauterization of the joint by a pointed hot iron, inserted 
between the bones, by which anchylosis was produced. 
A most animated discussion followed, in which the whole 
question was fully and intelligently discussed, the majority favor¬ 
ing as more rational the plan taught by the President, of fireing 
and blistering completely around the joint. 
The notorious prevalence of spavin in horses in Canada, 
