A. Stevens, of Scranton, Pa., departed this life January 17th of the present year, aged 63. G. D. Crispell, M.D., Kingston, N. Y., died December 15th, 1880, aged 79. A. R. Bartlett, M.D., Aurora, Ill., elected to membership in 1857, died December 20th, 1880, aged 68. Dr. John L. Clark, of Fall River, Mass., elected to membership in 1859, died October 25th, 1880, aged 68. Dr. Levi E. Ober, La Crosse, Wis., elected in 1857, died March 26th, 1881, aged 62. Moses F. Page, M.D., Appleton, Wis., graduated in 1866, elected to membership, 1869, died January 20th, 1881, aged 57. Dr. Ephraim C. Beckwith, Columbus, Ohio, graduated 1853, elected to membership in 1871, died November 30th, 1880, aged 53. M. M. Gardner, M.D., Utica, N. Y., graduated in 1851, elected to membership in 1869, died July 31st, 1880, aged 49. Dr. Albert Hammond, Hagerstown, Md.; Dr. D. T. Connor, of Connecticut; Dr. H. L. H. Hoffendahl, of Boston, Mass., have also departed this life, but particulars have not been furnished in time for any memoir.

With these exceptions memoirs of all those members will be furnished in the full report, also memoirs of the following named members, previously deceased, have been obtained and are included in the report. Dr. Moses Dodge, of Portland, Maine, graduated in 1838, admitted member of the Institute in 1847, died in 1879, aged 67. Dr. Jacob Smith, of Baltimore, Md., graduated in 1843, an original member of 1844, died March 20th, 1880, aged 66. Dr. T. C. Stevenson, Carlisle, Pa., graduated in 1851, elected to membership in 1852, died December 19th, 1879.

The above named members were long on the roll of seniors. Besides those in this list, Dr. William E. Freeman, of Wilmington, North Carolina, Dr. John H. Woodbury, of Boston, Mass., Dr. George R. Knight, of Collegeville, Penn'a., constitute the list of deceased members that have been reported to this Bureau during the past year.

On motion, the report of the Necrologist was accepted and referred to the Committee of Publication.

THE CHAIR appointed H. D. Paine, M.D., of New York, Necrologist for the ensuing year.

THE PRESIDENT: A partial report of the chairman of the Board of Censors is now in order.

F. R. MCMANUS, M.D., of Baltimore, Md.: Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Institute: I propose to read, by arrangement and request of the Board of Censors, the names of graduates of medicine who are applicants for membership to this Institute. This is not a proposition now, nor does it carry with it a motion for the election of these gentlemen. These applications have come into my hands for the purpose of arranging and examining them. It is proposed now to read the names of the applicants, the names of the

colleges from which they are graduated and the dates of their graduation, together with the names of three members of the Institute who guarantee their eligibility with regard to homoeopathic proficiency and moral standing.

They are read in this way for the purpose of giving to every member of this Institute an opportunity to make objection to the admission of any applicant that he may know, not from hearsay or from the opinions of other persons, but that he may know positively that there is an objection to the association of the applicant with this Institute. It has been asked by the chairman of the Board of Censors for the last few years, that any person who has such an objection to make should consider it a matter of principle, duty and honor, even if his own brother were to be the applicant, and he has valid reasons for his rejection for association with this Institute, that he should state it to the Board of Censors. After this these applications are submitted to my colleagues in the Board and if there is no objection the Board of Censors ask the Institute to ratify their election—that is, to adopt this report. I, having been honored with the position of chairman of this Board of Censors for many years, am a kind of direct communication with the members of the Board of Censors and the members of the Institute. Oftentimes-and it occurred in a very marked case at the last meeting a gentleman approached the chairman and said, "Why, you have elected Dr. A. to the Institute. Do you know that that man was rejected in his application for membership to the State society?" "No. How was I to know?" How was the Board of Censors to know, when the application of that individual was actually signed by three professors in homœopathic colleges, and the chairman of the Board of Censors is apprised after having read this, and when there was an actual number, I think, of ten or twelve physicians from that very same city in which that applicant resided, who never said a word about it, but afterwards came and found fault. The question for us all to decide-and it is a very important one-in connection with this matter, for it is a question that affects everybody, female or male, in this Institute, and that is, to decide as to the quality of the members of the Institute; and it is to be decided by them whether this Institute is to be

considered by the cognomen under which it was inaugurated— whether it is at all times to be considered the American Institute of Homœopathy or the American Institute of Eclecticism.

The names of the applicants were then read by the chairman69 in number. (See complete report of the Board of Censors.)

These names are to be submitted to the Board of Censors, and if there is no objection presented to the Board they are to be elected. The ratification of their election falls upon my friend, Dr. Kellogg. He will ratify the whole thing by the payment of ten dollars.

THE PRESIDENT: We understand that this is a partial report of the Board of Censors.

THE PRESIDENT read the following invitation: "The members of the American Institute of Homœopathy are cordially invited by the Homœopathic Medical Society of the County and City of New York to attend a reception, at such time as may be selected by the Institute. J. RALSEY WHITE,

Pres't Hom. Med. Soc. of County and City of New York." On motion, the invitation was accepted and referred to the Executive Committee.

THE PRESIDENT: The next business in order is the report of the chairman of the Bureau of Organization, Registration and Statistics. As the Chair understands it, this bureau is expected to report to the Institute direct. The papers of the other bureaus are to be read by title, and after the reading of these titles the President is to appoint a chairman for the coming year. The Bureau of Organization, Registration and Statistics is now in order. We will hear the report of the chairman of that bureau.

I. T. TALBOT, M.D., of Boston, chairman: Mr. President: This bureau covers over some important subjects to be acted upon by the members of the Institute during this session-some that are to be acted upon at an early hour.

The report of the bureau read.

THE PRESIDENT: You have heard the report of the Bureau of Organization, Registration and Statistics and the suggestions contained in the report. What is your pleasure with regard to the report?

DR. TALBOT: There are four suggestions to be made at this

time. It is the request that further reports from societies, hospitals, dispensaries, colleges and journals, in order to make this as complete as possible, be handed in to the chairman of the bureau at this session or at as early a day as possible. If the delegates who are present will present their credentials to the bureau they will be reported with the proceedings.

Every physician in attendance is requested to fill out one of these blanks and return it to the bureau. The Inter-Collegiate Committee will meet in this room at five o'clock this afternoon. THE PRESIDENT: What is your pleasure in regard to the report of this bureau and the suggestions made in that report?

DR. MORSE: I move that the report of the Bureau of Organization, Registration and Statistics be accepted and referred to the Committee of Publication.

Agreed to.

DR. TALBOT: I now move that the suggestions be placed on the table, to be taken up by the Institute at such time as they see fit. Agreed to.

THE PRESIDENT: The chairman of that bureau, Dr. I. T. Talbot, of Boston, Mass., I feel has served the Institute so faithfully and so well that it will be a pleasant thing for him to continue in that position.

THE PRESIDENT: The next business in order is the report of the

BUREAU OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE.

T. L. BROWN, M.D., of Binghamton, N. Y., chairman of the bureau, reported the following papers by title:

Indispensables in the Cure of the Insane, by T. L. Brown, M.D., Binghamton, N. Y.

On the Relations of Pulmonary Phthisis to Insanity, by S. Lilienthal, M.D., New York.

On motion, the papers were received and referred to the sectional meeting of the bureau for discussion.

THE PRESIDENT appointed Dr. S. Lilienthal, of New York, chairman of the Bureau of Psychological Medicine for the ensuing year.

THE PRESIDENT: The next business in order is the report of the

BUREAU OF GENERAL SANITARY SCIENCE, CLIMATOLOGY AND HYGIENE.

BUSHROD W. JAMES, M.D., of Philadelphia, Pa., chairman of the bureau, reported the following papers by title:

Recent Progress of Sanitary Affairs, by Bushrod W. James, M.D., of Philadelphia, Pa.

Hygiene and its Relation to Medication, by Bushrod W. James, M.D.

Personal Hygiene as to Dwellings Occupied, by T. S. Verdi, M.D., Washington, D. C.

Personal Hygiene as to Districts Inhabited, by E. U. Jones, M.D., Taunton, Mass.

Hygiene of Occupation, by A. R. Wright, M.D., Buffalo, N. Y. Personal Hygiene as to Habits Formed, by T. P. Wilson, M.D., Ann Arbor, Mich.

The Hygiene of Foods-an Experiment, by H. W. Taylor, M.D., Terre Haute, Ind.

Personal Hygiene as to Fluids Drank, by George M. Ockford, M.D., Burlington, Vt.

Personal Hygiene as to the Air Breathed, by D. H. Beckwith, M.D., Cleveland, O.*

Personal Hygiene as to Clothing Worn, by Lucius D. Morse, M.D., Memphis, Tenn.

Personal Hygiene in its Relation to the Sewerage Problem, by Wm. M. Cate, M.D., Washington, D. C.

On motion, the papers of the bureau were accepted and referred to the sectional meeting of the bureau for discussion. (See discussion.)

THE PRESIDENT appointed E. U. Jones, M.D., of Taunton, Mass., chairman of the Bureau of General Sanitary Science, Climatology and Hygiene for the ensuing year.

* Paper not received by the General Secretary.