appreciate all that Dr. Edgerton has said with regard to affection for the old; but we live in the day of automobiles and trolley cars, and although I still like my old horse to trot around with, at the same time I appreciate that we are getting along to the time when we have got to keep up and keep step with the rest. And I don't see but what the adoption of the new constitution is going to help us and our work. We do not throw away the traditions of the socity, sir, the traditions of the society will remain with us just as it did before, we have got all the old feeling in the society, and I think this new constitution is an actual improvement in the way in which the society can enlarge its scope of usefulness. I hope the constitution will be adopted, sir.

Dr. Donaldson: It seems to me the great feature of this change to-day has been lost sight of in this discussion. The fact is we have outgrown the state organization, and we have become a great national organization.

Now it is not only necessary that we should act as counties or as a state, but that we should act as one great profession of the United States. It is for that reason that every state in the Union is adopting practically this same thing, that we may go as one great body into the halls of legislation, not only in the state, but in Congress and our national legislature. We want to give up the methods of the thirteen colonies, perhaps, with all due respect to our constitution. We are not changing it, we are simply modifying it to meet our present state, and to make it one great body, and not make it an outside affair. We are not throwing away our old constitution, we are making it harmonize with our national organization.

Dr. Higgins: Mr. President, the members of the Tolland County society are unanimously in favor of the new constitution.

The President: We will vote on the question of adopt

ing the new Constitution and By-Laws which we have had exhibited. All those in favor of adopting this Constitution and By-Laws will say aye. (Putting the question.) It is a unanimous vote. The Connecticut Medical Society has adopted the new Constitution and By-Laws as amended to-day.

The President: The next order of business is the report of the committee on recommendations in the President's address.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RECOMMENDATIONS CONTAINED IN THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS.

Dr. Osborne: Mr. President, I have been unable to locate the third member of my committee, but two of us have offered the following resolutions:

In regard to delegates to national tuberculosis associations. It seems best to your committee that the Connecticut Medical Society endorse the society termed "The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis," which association is backed by such men as Trudeau, of Saranac Lake, Biggs, of New York, Flick of Philadelphia, Sternberg of Washington, Osler and Welch of Baltimore. We therefore recommend that five delegates be sent from the Connecticut Medical Society to the meeting of this Association at Atlantic City, on June 6th, and we nominate Dr. H. L. Swain, of New Haven, Dr. E. K. Root, of Hartford, Dr. S. M. Garlick of Bridgeport, Dr. Carl E. Munger, of Waterbury and Dr. D. ('. Brown, of Danbury.

Second. Regarding the sealing of certificates to prac tice medicine with the Society seal, we would refer this te a committee consisting of Drs. N. E. Wordin, C. A. Lindsley and C. A. Tuttle.

Third. In regard to the request of Dr. Keen for funds

for the Walter Reed Memorial, we would offer the following motion:

Resolved, That the Connectient Medical Society ap proves of this Memorial and instructs its treasuier to send to Dr. Keen fifty dollars of the Society's funds plus such other private donations as he may receive for this purpose by January 1st, 1905.

Fourth. Concerning the resolutions of the Mississip pi Valley Medical Association regarding legislation to prevent lock-jaw, we would offer the following:

Resolved, That the Connecticut Medical Society endorses the recommendations of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, and instructs its secretary to so notify that Association. Also,

Resolved, That this matter be referred to our Legislation Committee for their consideration.

All of which is respectfully submitted,

(Signed)

OLIVER T. OSBORNE,
ELIAS PRATT.

The President: Gentlemen: You have heard the first section of the report of the committee on recommendations in the President's address. What is your pleasure? Resolution adopted.

Dr. Osborne: Perhaps I have been misinformed, but your committee was proceeding on the recommendation in regard to certificates of the license to practice. We supposed they received licenses, and therefore this was offered regarding the seal on certificates to practice medicine with the society's seal. The recommendation of the President was regarding the use of the seal of the society. On that recommendation the committee made the suggestion that we refer this to Doctors Wordin, Lindsley and Tuttle.

Dr. Lindsley: Do I understand the purpose is to issue a diploma to them with the seal attached ?

Dr. Osborne: Why, the President says he has receiv ed notice that some men would like some such thing. The committee recommends that this whole matter be referred to a committee to report at the annual meeting next year.

Dr. Tuttle: Mr. President. As secretary of this Medical Examining Committee we issue the certificate after examination of which Dr. Lindsley speaks. The certifi cates which we issue signed by the five members of the committee are a presentable sort of a document which the candidates who have passed have repeatedly asked to retain. They take those certificates which we have granted and file them with Dr. Lindsley, one of which he retains, and the other goes to the town clerk of the town in which they are registered, or it is supposed to do so. They apply for them at the town clerk's office, but do not succeed in getting them.

Now, having been requested so many times I would venture to say twenty-five times by word of mouth, and fifty times by letter, to send them a certificate, which they can retain,signed by the members of this committee which examined them I have written to the secretary and asked permission to forward to those candidates one of the certificates in addition to the two which I send Dr. Lindsley, with the seal of the state society upon it.

The document which Dr. Lindsley in his official capacity sends to the members is so insignificant in appearance as compared with the one which we sign, that they don't seem to care to do anything with them.

Now the matter has been given I think undue impor tance, but it was the request of the committee that we request the state society through the President and Secre tary, for the privilege of using the seal, or having the secretary of our society stamp the seal upon one of those

certificates which we will send to each of the candidates who are examined. It is customary in almost all the other states, and when men come up here from any one of the states like New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or from the other New England States, and present a sizeable document on parchment engrossed and with the seal of the state society or the examining committee upon it, it seems rather insignificant that they should receive the smallest kind of a sheet of paper not larger than that (about 5x8) not especially good quality of paper, and simply printed upon it that they are entitled to register in some county in the state. We hope, Mr. President, that this committee will be appointed according to the resolution which Dr. Osborne has suggested,and that it will be duly considered, and I think we can convince Dr. Lindsley and Dr. Wordin of the advisability of this movement. I thank you for the privilege of speaking, Mr. President.

Dr. Garlick: I would like to call attention to certain facts which have not been brought out. It is peculiar, perhaps, to the State of Connecticut, that it trusts its medical men to the medical societies which it has chartered to examine the candidates for practice. The State then gives through the state Board of Health, a certificate, which sets out that they have passed that éxamination; in other words, the State has the graciousness to guarantee our work. Indirectly then we become first officers of this society, and the State endorses our action. Now, many of our applicants are pleased to have been examined by the State Society. The State simply says that they are entitled to practice, but gives them no legitimate medical standing. They would be pleased to have upon their certificates the statement that the Connecticut Medical Society has endorsed their capacity to practice. I think that, perhaps, is a point which Dr. Tuttle did not bring out. It is as members of this society, not as the State of Connecticut, that we would af