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MEETING OF THE NEW YORK STATE VETERINARY SOCIETY. 
At a special meeting of the New York State Veterinary Society, 
held in the lecture room of the American Veterinary College, 141 West 
54th Street, N. Y. City, the President, J. L. Robertson, presided, and 
the following members answered at roll call: J. L. Robertson, A. Liau- 
tard, A. Lockhart, L.* McLean, C. Burden, P. Nostrand, E. Nostrand, 
and A. A. Holcombe. 
The Chair appointed A. A. Holcombe Secretary, pro tern. After 
the reading and adoption of the minutes of the previous meeting, A. 
Liautard read communications from Messrs. Hopkins, Bell and Plage- 
man, regretting their inability to be present at the meeting. 
A discussion as to whether the place of meeting shall be more cen¬ 
trally located, terminated in the appointment of A. Lockhart and A. A. 
Holcombe as a committee to procure a suitable room for future meetings 
of the society in the Cooper Institute, corner of Fourth Avenue and 
Eighth Street, New York City. On motion of A. Lockhart the by¬ 
laws were so changed and amended that the society will hereafter meet 
on the second Thursday of every month, instead of the fourth Thurs¬ 
day, as heretofore. The present officers of the society were then re¬ 
elected for the ensuing year. By invitation, William J. Coates, D. V. S., 
of New York City, read a paper on “The Duties of Members to the 
Profession.” 
A vote of thanks was tendered the essayist, and the subject dis¬ 
cussed at length by Messrs. McLain, Liautard, Lockhart and Robert¬ 
son. Mr. McLain then promised to read a paper at the next meeting 
of the society, and a motion to adjourn was carried. 
A. A. Holcombe, 
Secretary. 
ANNUAL EXERCISES AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
The hall room of the College of Physicians and Surgeons was well 
filled on the evening of the 28th of February, for the first public an¬ 
nual commencement of the American Veterinary College. 
After a few congratulary remarks from the President of the Board 
and Trustees, and the reading of the report of the work done during 
the collegiate year, 1877-’78, by the Secretary, the degree of D. V. S. 
(Doctor of Veterinary Surgery) was granted to the following gentlemen : 
John F. Winchester, B. S., of Massachusetts; Alvord H. Rose, of New 
