satisfaction or to the best interests of the Faculty, on account of th insufficient funds placed at its command. Much that was desirable, much indeed that seemed essential to a well-ordered library, had to be neglected in consequence. This is not as it should be, nor does your Committee believe that it is the desire of the Faculty that it should be reduced to the straits to which it has been brought during the past year. The only line of expenditure that is expressly provided for by the constitution is that for the library. In Article X, one-half of the annual dues of members are directly appropriated to the use of the Library Committee. As was shown in the report of the last Committee, this Article is mandatory and leaves no option with the treasurer, who must look for funds for emergencies and extraordinary expenses in special assessments, which the Faculty has power to make. Such being the law, the attention of the Faculty is respectfully directed to the manner in which it has been disregarded since its enactment in April, 1882. At the annual meeting held in April, 1883, the treasurer reported as the total receipts from dues of members $1,100 (net); of this sum the Library Committee received $534 instead of $550, the proper amount. The funds of the Committee were increased by $63.17 from sales and fines collected by the Librarian. In 1884 the Treasurer's report showed as receipts of annual dues of members (less commissions) $1,252.60; of this amount $626.30 should have gone, by law, to the Library Committee, while in fact only $425 were received. During the past year the Committee has been unable to ascertain the amount due it by the law of the Faculty, but the total receipts, $445.10, are evidently much less than the amount it is entitled to. It is in no captious spirit that your Committee makes these statements. The revenues of the library should be of a definite and reliable character (since its value depends upon their receipt). It is manifestly impossible, therefore, that it can be advantageously conducted unless those who are responsible for it can have a reasonable expectation of defraying those expenses that by constitutional provision they are entitled to incur. It has been proven that the ordinary expenses of the Faculty can be easily met if the requirements of the constitution are literally complied with. It is only extraordinary outlays for which no provision may be made that can embarrass the treasury. Your Committee respectfully protests against any appropriation of funds that may be made at the expense of the library, the feature of the Faculty to which in the largest measure belongs the credit of its present usefulness, and is the guarantee of its future prosperity. In order to reaffirm the will of the Faculty in this matter and to provide for the more efficient management of the Library the passage of the following resolution is. urged: "Resolved, that the Treasurer is hereby directed to deliver to the Chairman of the Library Committee at the end of each calender month one-half of the fees and dues of members received by him during the month, as provided for in Article X of the constitution. The number of volumes in the library on March 31st. 1885, During the year no bound volumes were bought except Transactions of Societies, Hospital Reports, etc. Donations of books were received as follows, viz: 7 volumes from J. J. Chisolm. M.D. 4 volumes from John Morris, M.D. 2 volumes from Frank Donaldson, M.D. I volume from Randolph Winslow, M.D. I volume from Dr. Eklund, of Stockholm. I volume from Surgeon General, U. S. A. 1 volume from Commissioner of Education. Dr. John Morris has completed his gift of a set of dictionaries, with a copy of Liddell & Scott's Greek Lexicon (latest edition). Pamphlets and journals have been received from Drs. R. Winslow, Chisolm, Morris and Theobald. The Committee deeply regrets this very small increase of the library through donation, and begs to remind members that contributions of new and old books, journals, pamphlets, etc., will always be most thankfully received. 94 volumes of journals have been bound since the last report. 64 journals are now regularly received; of these, 43 are subscribed for, 20 are received in exchange and 1 is donated by Dr. George H. Rohé. Guy's Hospital Reports, the publications of the New Sydenham, the Transactions of the London Medico-Chirurgical, Clinical, Pathological Societies, the usual Transactions of the State Societies, Boards of Health, etc., have been received. Of the 64 journals received I is semi-annual, 6 quarterly, 2 bi-monthly, 31 monthly, 2 semi-monthly, 18 weekly, 2 thrice weekly, 2 occasional. 36 were American, II British, 7 French, 8 German, I Swedish, I Italian. Attention is directed to the privileges of the library of the Surgeon General's Department, from which members may receive books by proper application through the librarian of the Faculty. Respectfully submitted, I. E. ATKINSON, M.D., Chairman, B. B. BROWNE, M.D. T. A. ASHBY, M.D. JOHN N. MACKENZIE, M.D. Baltimore, May 12th, 1885. REPORT OF PUBLICATION COMMITTEE. HALL OF THE FACULTY, 122 W. Fayette St. Mr. President and Members: The Publication Committee met promptly after the adjournment of the annual convention in April, 1884; elected Dr. Rich'd Thomas secretary; contracted with the Journal Publishing Company to publish the Transactions at $1.10 per page for 500 copies, and a similar price per page for the revised edition of the constitution of the Faculty. The Transactions were issued early in September, and have been distributed to the several State Societies, medical journals and libraries throughout the world. Copies of the constitution and the card board edition of the revised fee table can be had at the table of the treasurer for the small sum of 15 cents for the constitution and 10 cents for fee table. The expense for printing the Transactions of 258 pages, for 300 reprints of the president's address and 700 reprints of the annual address was $310.25. 500 copies of the constitution and 100 cards with fee table cost $26.50. By the courtesy of an order by the Executive Committee, 1,000 copies of the Nurses' Directory Circular were published at the small expense of $15.00. Thus the total amount spent for publishing during the past year was $351.75. All of which is respectfully submitted. G. LANE TANEYHILL, M.D. W. F. A. KEMP, M.D. H. M. WILSON, M.D. RICH'D HENRY THOMAS, M.D. JOHN N. MACKENZIE, M.D. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MEMOIRS. It becomes the melancholy duty of your committee to report the loss by death, since our last annual meeting, of four of our most worthy and distinguished members, viz.: Drs. Riggin Buckler, Andrew Hartman and George S. Kinnemon, all of Baltimore, and James Robert Ward, of Baltimore County. RIGGIN BUCKLER, (son of the late eminent Dr. John Buckler), was born in this city November 4th, 1834. Having attained his A. M. at Harvard in 1851, he entered upon the study of medicine under his father, and was graduated M. D., at the School of Medicine of the Maryland University 1853, soon after which he visited Europe for the further prosecution of his studies, where he remained four years. Returning to Baltimore in 1857, he entered on practice, which he pursued with great zeal and success till removed by death, August 30, 1884, at the early age of fifty and in the full tide of his usefulness. "His premature death produced a feeling of profound sadness in the community; but long life is not always a full life. Dr. Buckler, from his earliest youth, was a hard, earnest worker in the line of his profession, and crowded into his brief career useful activities which would have sufficed for the life of a much older man." The poet says: "We live in deeds, not years; In thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. And if this sentiment be accepted his life was surely long. (Dr. John Morris). At a special meeting of the Faculty, called September 5th, 1884, in relation to his death, many of those present who had held intimate social and professional relations to the deceased bore willing and eloquent testimony to his worth as a man and physician. "He was a man" said they, "who was liked and trusted by his numerous patients both in his private and professional capacity.-Always genuine, and thoroughly detesting shams and pretenses of every kind, he never condescended to use them. Having a strong, natural taste for his profession, he was by nature thoroughly fitted for its practice. No one was more fertile in resources in difficult cases, and gifted with a strong memory, he never forgot a hint gathered from reading or experience. Under a manner sometimes almost brusque, though never harsh, he had great kindness of heart, and his manner was never other than gentle and tender, where he saw real suffering." (Dr. T. F. Murdock). He "He was no ordinary man. He was an eminent practitioner. was endowed by nature with a high order of intellect. By study and culture he became a man of scientific attainments, in and outside his profession. By close and accurate observation he had become familiar with disease in all its intricacies. He grappled with it as a master who understood how to use his implements with effect. Like his father he was quick in arriving at a diagnosis, and his conclusions were generally accurate and logical, because he gave each and every symptom, objective and subjective, its co-relative value. Early in his professional career Dr. Riggin Buckler showed that he possessed the manly qualities which, in after life, endeared him to his patients. Among these there was great gentleness of manner, with kindness in treating the sick, especially among the poor. During an epidemic of cholera at the Alms House, he was untiring in his efforts to save life and to alleviate the sufferings of the paupers. He never thought of himself, or of any danger he incurred. in exposure to infection, no matter how violent the organic poison. In consultation he was a straightforward, frank practitioner. The whole community, indeed, looked up to him as an eminent, clearheaded practitioner. This reputation he acquired by the force of his character and his great skill. He was incapble of resorting to any questionable means of promoting his popularity. His professional conduct was worthy of his noble, high-toned nature." (Dr. F. Donaldson). "He was an honorable, high-minded man, bold and outspoken on every occasion. As a physician he was prompt, decisive and reliable. His natural abilities were good and his reading extensive. He never sought to ingratiate himself into the good graces of families, nor to take advantage of consultations to advance personal interests." (Dr. J. H. Patterson). "Dr. Buckler enjoyed advantages for acquiring the elements of a liberal education that are far from being the common lot of medical men in this country. A graduate of Harvard University, his fine natural endowments had been stimulated, his emulation excited, his taste refined and cultivated, so that he entered upon the study of a learned profession, already prepared by superior mental training to |