consider the best methods of public control and prevention of venereal disease-said Committee to co-operate with the similar Committee of the American Medical Association."

The motion was seconded and adopted.

The President: Is there any other business?

The Secretary: We ought to lay a tax. I move that a tax of $2.25 be laid on each member of the Society.

Dr. Carmalt: Mr. President, that brings up the question that has been brought forward by Drs. Root and Swasey with regard to the expenses of the meeting. The Committee of Arrangements have made the statement more than once that they could not do without the exhibits, because they pay so much rent, otherwise they would have to lay an assessment for the dinner. Now it seems to me it is highly proper that we pay for our own dinners. I cannot see that we want to have our dinners paid for by the exhibitors, and I must say I think the dinner ought to come out of the State Society, and not from individual subscriptions. (Applause). I feel very strongly about that, that it should be a tax on the whole Society, and, then I think we will get more members than we do now, and I certainly think a tax of five dollars a year would not be too much to pay. I move that we make the tax three dollars.

Dr. Robinson said he thought five dollars was too much. Including expenses of car-fare and hotels, five dollars tax would be too expensive for the Delegates, and it would deter men from coming to the Society, and they would not increase their membership.

Dr. Harris: I would like to inquire how much money we get from the exhibits ordinarily.

Dr. Mailhouse: Dr. Gilbert tells me about $180 each year.

Dr. Harris: How many members have we in the Society?

The Secretary: 739.

Dr. Harris: I should think 25 cents extra might pay for the expenses.

Dr. Mailhouse: I move to amend the motion by adding 25 cents, and make the tax $2.50 for the next year.

Motion seconded and adopted unanimously.

The one hundred and twelfth Annual Meeting of the President and Fellows thereupon adjourned at 6:05 P. M.

THE ANNUAL CONVENTION.

The Annual Convention was called to order by the President at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, May 26. The first thing in order was the

SECRETARY'S REPORT.

The membership of this Society is seven hundred and thirty-six, divided among the Counties as follows:

This is an entire gain of twenty-three, last year's membership having been seven hundred and thirteen. A careful glance of this movement shows a cheerful condition. Every county has gained in membership excepting one which has held its own. It is good to see a growth in the smaller counties.

The increase in new members last year was eighteen: this year it is twenty-five. One of the most encouraging things in our report as we look it over is that so few have been dropped for non-payment of dues. This has always kept down our increase because we have lost so many each year. But in only one county do we find any such record. We believe it to be largely attributable to the position of the American Medical Association which demands payment of dues as a condition of membership. And we find that a number of men who had previously dropped out have re-entered the society. This denotes a prosperous and healthy condition of affairs.

The names of new members with graduation and residence are:

Eckley Raynor Storrs, Jefferson '99, Hartford.

Ernest Alden Wells, B. A., Yale '97, Johns Hopkins, '01, Hartford.