EDITORIAL 
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make it a truly representative organ of American Veterinary literature 
that would carry to the world a just and comprehensible condition of 
the advancement of the science as it exists here to-day, requires the 
constant and unceasing efforts of all the members of this Association. 
C. P. Lyman then thanked the Association for the unexpected 
honor which it had bestowed upon him in electing him as their presid¬ 
ing officer, and while he should do all in his power to advance the inter¬ 
ests of Veterinary surgery, he could do little without the aid of the mem¬ 
bers of this Association, which he felt sure would be cordially given him. 
Communications from Benj. Mclnnes, of Charleston, South Carolina, 
and L. T. Bell, of Brooklyn, werfe received regretting their inability to 
be present at this meeting. The Secretary was instructed to have two 
hundred copies of the by-laws of the Association printed. The Com¬ 
mittee on Finance reported that inasmuch as the funds of the Associa¬ 
tion were somewhat depleted, an assessment of five dollars per member 
be made to meet contingent expenses; such assessment to be paid before 
March, 1878. Carried. 
Dr. Thayer, of West Newton, Mass., presented the first and second 
vertebrae of a horse which had died from a tumor upon the right side 
of the neck; the bones showing absorption of a considerable portion of 
their substance. Dr. Liautard presented the os pedis and nerves from 
a leg on which neurotomy had been performed. The os pedis was frac¬ 
tured transversely at the semilunar arch, while the nerves presented 
neuromatic tumors. In connection with this case he reported another 
case in which similar complication had taken place five days after the 
operation, in which, the animal being destroyed, the same lesions were 
found. A third case presented the same symptoms after being operated 
but a few days. As these three animals had been allowed much liberty 
almost immediately after the operation, Dr. Liautard inquired if that 
was not the predisposing cause of the appearance of the complications. 
Dr. Stickney stated that he did not think they were, as it has been his 
custom for years to allow neurotomized animals to be turned out to 
pasture immediately after the operation, and he never had occasion to 
meet with the same trouble. Dr. Robertson presented several calculi. 
After considerable discussion upon the subject of navicularthritis 
and the operation of neurotomy, the meeting adjourned to dinner at the 
Ashland House at 6 p. m. 
A. A. Holcombe, Secretary. 
