are reviewed again and again it is difficult to grasp the growth they imply.-Medical Arena.

THE ALVARENGA PRIZE.-The College of Physicians of Philadelphia announces that the next award of the Alvarenga Prize, being the income for one year of the bequest of the late Señor Alvarenga, and amounting to about $180, will be made on July 14, 1901, provided that an essay deemed by the Committee of Award to be worthy of the prize shall have been offered. Essays intended for competition may be upon any subject in medicine, but cannot have been published and must be received by the Secretary of the college on or before May 1, 1901. Each essay must be sent without signature, but must be plainly marked with a motto and be accompanied by a sealed envelope having on its outside the motto of the paper and within the name and address of the author. It is a condition of the competition that the successful essay, or a copy of it, shall remain in possession of the college; other essays will be returned upon application within three months after the award. The Alvarenga Prize for 1900 has been awarded to Dr. David De Beck, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for his essay entitled, "Malarial Diseases of the Eye."-Medical Review of Reviews.

PERSONAL AND NEWS ITEMS.

New Home for J. B. Lippincott Company.

An important transaction has just been concluded by which a number of old-fashioned dwelling houses on East Washington Square have passed from the ownership of the heirs of the famous lawyer, Horace Binney, and will soon be torn down to make way for a fine building to be occupied by J. B. Lippincott Company, whose old home on Filbert Street, above Seventh, was burned down some months ago. Posses

sion is to be given by September 14, and it is expected that the demolition of the old structures will begin soon after. The site is considered a very eligible one for the Lippincott Company, as it has light on three sides, is very central, and they will be enabled to promply issue and increase their excellent line of medical publications by standard authorities. By the way, their new catalogue, just issued, is handsomely illustrated with excellent portraits of many of America's leading medical writers.

Many historic recollections cluster about the properties just sold. They stand on the ground once occupied by the old Walnut Street Prison, built before the Revolution, and in which during the struggle the English confined American prisoners during the former's occupation of Philadelphia.

DR. MARY E. MOSHER, class of '87, B. U. S. of M., has returned from her two years and a half of practice at the Klondike, and has opened an office at No. 719 Boylston St, Boston.

DR. ROBERT F. HOVEY has removed from Belchertown, Mass., to Springfield, where he is associated in practice with Dr. J. H. Carmichael. Dr. Arthur Warren has taken his practice at Belchertown.

DR. R. BURLEIGH PARKHURST has bought the practice of Dr. John F. Worcester at Clinton. Mass., and has located in that city.

DR. L. A. STEWART, class of '95, B. U. S. of M., has re moved from West Brooksville, Maine, to Clinton, Mass.

DR. E. H. DURGIN, class of '89, B. U. S. of M., and formerly located at Searsport, Maine, has removed from West Side, Cal., to Cupertino, Cal.

Members of the Boston Homeopathic Medical Society: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,-One year ago tonight we were assembled in this room to listen to the address of our retiring president, Dr. Windsor, and as her interesting and thoughtful words drew to a close, we doubt if one there was amongst us, who failed to feel a sense of personal pride in our comradeship, and in the fact that our Boston University was sponsor for so worthy a representative of her sex. Succeeding so acceptable a president, while carrying with it its own embarrassments by comparison, should and we trust has, provided a healthy stimulus to earnest service. If doubt existed in the doctor's mind one year ago as to the closure of the Nineteenth Century, that doubt is surely now dispelled, and from now on the Twentieth Century is in full swing, and we are off with the old and on with the new. The time, then, is peculiarly fitting for both introspection and retrospection. In one sense this is the oldest but one, Homœopathic Medical Society in America, and is so classified in the American Institute reports. Its regular organization

was perfected in 1873, but its existence, as also our State. Society as well, was the legitimate outgrowth of the banding together of four men, Doctors Gregg, Flagg, Wild and Spooner, in an organization known as the Massachusetts Homœopathic Fraternal Association. Starting with an organization of four physicians, with nothing behind it but a principle, it has enjoyed an existence of sixty-one years, and as we look around us its virility seems quite assured. The past year of 1900 will always be a memorable one, not alone for its closure of the past century, but as the year in which the Homœopathic Physicians of the United States paid loving tribute to the man to whom they owe their existence, Samuel Hahnemann. All honor to that little coterie of men headed by Dr. McClennan, of Philadelphia, who have struggled valiantly these many years to compass the erection of this monument in memory of the founder of Homœopathy. Disappointments and discouragements in the raising of money, disheartening embarrassments in the failure to arrange for a fitting site, harsh and often unjust criticisms as to the feasibility of the whole plan or the methods of carrying it out, are forgiven and forgotten in the long delayed completion and dedication of the monument itself, and as we view this beautiful creation of granite and bronze, it should prove an inspiration for better, more earnest and unselfish labor, as we call to mind the genius and noble character of the man in whose memory it is erected. Here in Boston, the triumphs and achievements of the closing years of the past century will be tinged with sadness, when we recall the passing from amongst us of Dr. Talbot, a tower of strength to homoeopathy, not alone to New England, but to the whole world. To whose indefatigable and untiring capacity for work and unselfish devotion to the cause, the homoeopathic profession owes more possibly than to any one man since the death of Hahnemann himself. He gave his life to the cause, and our society, our college, our hospital, are in one sense his monuments.

Sixty-one years have passed since this society's organization; what has been accomplished by our branch of the profession during this time? We find in the United States 21 regularly chartered Medical Colleges with an alumni of over 13,000. Of General Hospitals we have 85, many of these with liberal endowments; we wish we might say the same of the colleges. Of Special Hospitals we find 67. Our National Societies number 9, State Societies 33, Local Societies 101, Medical Clubs 42, Medical Journals 30, Dispensaries devoted entirely to charity 58. Reports from 42 of these show a record of nearly 600,000 patients treated during the year 1899. The service rendered at these institutions by the profession is, as it should be, entirely gratuitous, the expense incurred in their maintenance comes almost entirely from private sources. These are most creditable figures surely. Now a word about the character of the work done at these institutions. We have 21 Medical Colleges; what as to their standards and requirements? We point with pride to the fact that our college, the Boston University, was the first college in our school to require a three years' graded course. Other schools soon followed our lead. Once again was the standard raised by Boston University making a four years' graded course compulsory. Many colleges, including Harvard University, have followed this example; it is to be regretted that all have not done so. Harvard now goes a step farther requiring an A. M. or a B. A. before admission. The wisdom of this step has not been fully determined, but we feel sure the future will justify it. We have 182 Hospitals under Homoeopathic management; what are their records? Many of those present will recall with pleasure the kind and manly remarks delivered in the session of the legislature by Dr. Geo. N. Munsell, of East Boston, a member of the committee to whom the bill for appropriating nearly $200,000 of the State's money to build a new surgical wing to our hospital was referred. The doctor, an allopath, openly and violently opposed the bill when it was first