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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
that the paper which you presented this Association during the 
present session, exhibited evidence of having received the deepest 
study, widest reading and most extensive inquiry and research of 
all that were read. While I have no desire in the least to dis¬ 
parage the merits of the other papers in competition, I compli¬ 
ment you on the ability which you have shown as a writer on so 
interesting a subject as that of which you treated. On the part 
of this Association and in the name of the donor, I assure you it 
affords me the greatest pleasure to present you with this most 
handsome case of post mortem instruments, and while I trust you 
may but seldom have occasion to use them on your own patients, 
let me hope their presence may ever serve to remind you of the 
many happy hours we have spent here together, that they shall 
always testify to the kind respect which we all entertain for you, 
and for all time prove a most gratifying reminiscence of the time 
which you have so successfully spent in obtaining a knowledge 
which shall qualify you to expend the rest of your life in a labor 
of love and, we hope, of pleasure.” Mr. Bailey, in cordial terms, 
thanked the Chair, the Association, and the donor for the honor 
done him, and assured all, that in the future, as in the past, he 
should ever strive to be worthy their kindest regards. After pro¬ 
viding for the granting of the Association’s certificates of member¬ 
ship, the meeting adjourned subject to the call of the President. 
MONTREAL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The usual fortnightly meeting, held on Thursday evening, was 
unusually interesting. The chair was occupied by Professor Mc- 
Eachran. Mr. Henry Quiinby, of Rochester, N. Y., was elected, 
and Mr. Henry Metcalf, Hudson, was proposed for membership. 
The first paper was read by Mr. Richard Price, on the death 
of a horse caused by the too free application of coal oil. 
Mr. A. W. Harris, Ottawa, read a very interesting paper on 
glanders, in which its contagious nature, incurable character and 
communicability from the horse to all animals, cattle excepted, 
