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ford, Mass.; J. H. Stickney, Boston, Mass. ; E. F. Thayer, West New¬ 
ton, Mass. ; Robert J. Saunders, Salem, Mass.; John S. Saunders, Bos¬ 
ton, Mass.; Theo. S. Very, Boston, Mass. ; Chas. P. Lyman, Springfield, 
Mass. ; Robert Laidlaw, Albany, N. Y.; C. B. Michener, Carversville, 
Pa.; John B. Cosgrove, Worcester, Mass.; E. Travers, Rhinebeck ? 
N. Y. ; J. C. Corlies, Newark, N. J.; H. H. Lawrence, Yonkers, N.’Y.; 
L. V. Plageman, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Jas. L. Robertson, A. Lockhart, C. 
Burden, P. Nostrand, J. D. Hopkins, and A. A. Holcombe, of New 
York City, answered to roll call. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and accepted. The 
committee appointed to petition Congress for a more stringent law relat¬ 
ing to the importation of cattle reported progress. The Board of Cen¬ 
sors reported favorably upon the applications for membership of John 
Myers, Cincinnati, Ohio; Chas. H. Hall, New Bedford, Mass. ; C. H. 
Peabody, Providence, R. I.; Geo. P. Penniman, Worcester, Mass.; and 
W. J. Coates, New York City. Upon motion they were all elected mem¬ 
bers of the Association. Chas. P. Lyman, of Springfield, Mass., pre¬ 
sented the application of J. A. Brackin, Pittsfield, Mass. ; and J. C. 
Corlies, of Newark, N. J., presented application of Julius C. Force, of 
Newark, N. J., for membership. Upon motion the chair appointed A. 
Lockhart, J. D. Hopkins, and J. B. Cosgrove, a Committee on Nomin¬ 
ation for Officers. The committee reported for President, Chas. P. 
Lyman, Springfield, Mass. ; Vice-President, Williamson Bryden, Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. ; Recording Secretary, A. A. Holcombe, New York; Corre¬ 
sponding Secretary, Earnest Travers, Rhinebeck, N. Y. ; Treasurer, 
C. Burden, N. Y. ; Censors, J. H. Stickney, M. D., Boston, Mass.; J. L. 
Robertson, M. D.V.S., N. Y. ; J. D. Hopkins, N. Y.; Alexander Lockhart, 
N. Y. ; A. Liautard, M.D.V.S., N. Y.; A. A. Holcombe, N. Y. The nom¬ 
inees presented by the committee were elected by acclamation. Upon 
motion the President appointed A. Lockhart a committee of one to 
conduct the newly elected President to the chair. Retiring President 
Liautard addressed the Association, thanking them for the honor they 
had conferred upon him by electing him two years in succession as their 
presiding officer. He called their attention to the progress which Vet¬ 
erinary medicine and surgery had made during that time, and said he 
believed the birth of the American Veterinary Review was the 
most important of them all. That it was born to the Association upon 
the year of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the nation, and 
that although it was strong in its infancy, and is receiving favorable 
notice at the hands of English, French, and German Veterinarians to 
