absence of the Vice-President, I will ask the General Secretary to take the chair.

DR. N. F. COOKE, chairman of the Committee on the President's Address, submitted the following

REPORT.

To the Officers and Members of the American Institute of Homœopathy: Your committee, to which the President's Address was referred, begs leave respect fully to report:

1. That the President's definition of the words "regular" and "irregular," as applied to schools and practitioners of medicine, be adopted by this Institute

as correct.

2. That hereafter this definition be conspicuously printed in all published documents and Transactions of this Institute, in order that the profession, of all schools, may the sooner be familiarized with and led to adopt it.

3. That the Institute approves and endorses the suggestion that national legislation be sought, and, if possible, obtained, to the end that a uniform standard of medical education may be adopted.

4. That five thousand copies of the Address be printed, aside from the proceedings of the Institute, for general distribution.

5. That the President be requested to revise the Address for this purpose, in order that those portions of merely personal interest may be omitted.

In conclusion, your committee would recommend the adoption of the following resolution :

Resolved, That the thanks of the American Institute of Homœopathy are hereby extended to J. W. Dowling, M.D., for his able and timely Address, and that the General Secretary be directed to present him with a properly engrossed copy of this resolution.

NICHOLAS FRANCIS COOKE, M.D.,

NATHAN R. MORSE, M.D.,

WILLIAM OWENS, M.D.,

Committee.

THE GENERAL SECRETARY: You have heard the report of the Committee on the President's Address. What is your pleasure in regard to it?

DR. T. C. DUNCAN: I move that the report be received and the resolution adopted.

The motion was seconded and unanimously carried.

DR. BURGHER: Mr. President: On resuming the chair which you have so ably occupied, you will please accept the vote of thanks just extended to you by the Institute.

PRESIDENT DOWLING: I take this opportunity, in accepting your thanks, of expressing my own for your appreciation of my feeble efforts as your presiding officer. I thank you for your kind expressions, not only as a body, but as individuals, as it will inspire me, if I have any merit, to make increased efforts to do still better.

There are some resolutions that were laid upon the table; I have been requested to have them called up.

DR. I. T. TALBOT: I move that they be taken up now, and that the suggestions of the Bureau of Organization, Registration and Statistics be considered.

Seconded and carried.

THE PRESIDENT: We will now consider the suggestions contained in the report of the Bureau of Organization, Registration and Statistics. Dr. I. T. Talbot, chairman, has the floor.

DR. TALBOT: Mr. President: The bureau recommends that the form of application for membership be changed to read as follows:

plies for membership in the AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMEOPATHY, and if so elected, agrees to comply with its By-Laws, Rules and Regulations.

Dated at.

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We, the subscribers, members of the AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMEOPATHY, certify that.

of....

is a regularly educated physi

cian, of good moral character and professional standing, and a graduate of...

Dated at

On motion, the recommendation was adopted.

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DR. TALBOT, on behalf of the bureau, proposed, in writing, the following alteration in the Constitution of the Institute: "That in Article III. for the word 'Vice-President,' there be substituted 'four Vice-Presidents.""

The proposition was laid over, under a provision of the Constitution, to be acted upon at the next annual meeting.

A number of other important suggestions and recommendations were made by this bureau, but for want of time, no action was taken upon them. (See full report of bureau.)

THIRD DAY.

GENERAL SESSION.

THURSDAY, June 16, 1881.

THE PRESIDENT called the Institute to order, pursuant to adjournment, and stated that there were two orders of business for the day the regular order of the day, and the special order. The special order is the election of officers and the selection of the place for holding the next annual session; which is a privileged question for the hour of 12 o'clock, M. The other business will, of course, yield at that hour to the special order of the day.

Something was said yesterday in the report of Committee on the President's Address in reference to his definition of a regular physician. I would like to state, in two or three words, what the President's definition is: "A regular physician, a graduate of a regularly chartered medical college. The term also applies to a person practising the healing art in accordance with the laws of the country in which he resides." That is the definition acted upon by the Institute.

The first business in order is a supplementary report of the Board of Censors.

DR. F. R. MCMANUS, chairman, submitted the report of the Board of Censors, which was, on motion, accepted, and the applicants recommended elected. (See complete report of the Board of Censors.)

THE PRESIDENT: We are now prepared to listen to the report of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence.

DR. W. H. WINSLOW: As chairman of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence, I have to report that I have nothing of special interest to bring before the Institute. My functions this year appear to have been usurped by the Committee of Arrangements for the International Convention, through whose hands, I presume, most of the correspondence has passed, as I have received none of sufficient importance to lay before the Institute.

On motion, the report was accepted.

THE PRESIDENT: Feeling, as I do, that there will be some very important correspondence between this time and the next annual meeting of the Institute, I will appoint as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence for the coming year, W. H. Winslow, M.D., Pittsburgh, Pa.

THE PRESIDENT: The next business in order is the report of the delegates to the American Health Association, J. P. Dake, M.D., Nashville, Tenn., chairman.

Report of Delegates to tHE AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION, SESSION AT NEW ORLEANS, DECEMBER, 1880.

In accordance with the wish of this body, expressed at Milwaukee, last year, we attended the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, held in the city of New Orleans, last December.

We have to report a large attendance of members and delegates from all parts of the United States. Numerous and interesting papers were read and discussed. Among the first papers read was one from Dr. Bushrod W. James, of Philadelphia. It was well received.

Several members of our school were present, partaking in the discussions with entire freedom. We only regret that more were not present, as the work of the Association, dealing with the causes and prevention of disease, with personal as well as public hygiene, is in the direct line long pursued by the practitioners of the new school.

As the Association is not a strictly delegated body, but made up of members paying annual dues, it is to be hoped that many more of our practitioners will come in to take part in its beneficent undertakings.

We need hardly remind you that the ground occupied and cultivated is common to the believers in all therapeutic methods. The questions every year considered are as to the prevention and not the treatment of human ailments. J. P. DAKE, M.D., Chairman of Delegation.

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

THE PRESIDENT: I will appoint Dr. A. R. Wright, Buffalo, N. Y., and Dr. M. T. Runnels, Indianapolis, Ind., delegates from this body to the next meeting of the American Public Health Association, which is to convene in Savannah, Georgia, December

next.

DR. J. C. MORGAN, Philadelphia, Pa., will be chairman of the Committee on Legislation for the coming year.