appoint a committee on organization. The object intended was to request all the State societies to co-operate and organize on a common plan, so that there may be a uniformity.

Under "c" the State societies are asked to unitedly agree to federate themselves in the American Medical Association. In other words, the business body of the A. M. A., the House of Delegates, will be created by the State societies, i.e., the State societies will be federated in that. As a preliminary to this each State society is asked to divide its annual meeting into two distinct branches, legislative and scientific; that the legislative branch be as small as is compatible with representation from all County societies, and be composed of delegates elected by the County societies.

Under "d" the State societies are asked to so organize that hereafter membership in the County or District societies shall constitute membership in the State society, without further formality. As to further recommendations, see p. 5 and 6 of the report.

You, as President, are asked to bring this matter before your society at its next meeting and your co-operation is solicited, as well as that of the members of your State society, in the work before us.

The next meeting of the American Medical Association will be held at Saratoga, N. Y., on June 10-13, and at that time the House of Delegates will meet for the first time. Your State society will be entitled to send one delegate for each 500 active members, or minor fraction of this number. Delegates should be elected to serve for two years. If your State society is entitled to more than one delegate, one-half the number, or as near as possible, should be elected for one year and the rest for two years.

Delegates must have been members of the A. M. A. for two years preceding the date of the next annual meeting. In other words, they must have been members in June, 1900.

It is recommended that the State societies elect their delegates at the same time and in like manner as the officers are elected. I refer you to Chapter III, p. 9, of the By-laws, and especially to Sections 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7.

I would like to hear from you as to the possibility of more effective work in your State. Any further information I shall be glad to furnish, if in my power and you wish it.

Respectfully,

GEORGE H. SIMMONS,

Secretary, American Medical Association.

K.

It will be seen that the Association in its reorganization has adopted just the method of government which this Society has had ever since it began and which has been pronounced a model system. Letters from the Secretaries of various State societies have been received, requesting a copy of our Constitution and By-laws, to use as a pattern in changing their methods according to the request of the National Association.

I append the Articles of Incorporation, Constitution and By-laws of the American Medical Association, placing them at the latter part of the book where they can be referred to separately or taken out if need be for special use.

In connection with the celebration of the Yale Bicentennial and the address on medicine delivered at that time, arose the question of the charter of this Society. Your Secretary has interested himself in looking up the matter and finds much confusion in the records. Changes have been made from time to time, most of them having reference to the management of the Medical Institute of Yale College. The first or original charter was granted by the Governor in Council and Representatives of His Majesty's Colony of Connecticut in General Court assembled, New Haven, October 9, 1701. It is found on page 70, Proceedings for 1874.

The present charter was adopted at the Session of the Legislature, 1879, and can be found on page 183 of the Proceedings for that year.

Between these two were the enactments of 1810, to be found on page 70 of the Proceedings for 1874, that of 1825, Proceedings 1830, page 12, and 1834 on page 12 of the Proceedings of that year.

For the purpose of contrast I have had placed in the Appendix of this volume the first charter and the last. The relation between the Connecticut Medical Society and the Medical Institute of Yale College was severed by mutual consent in 1884.

Turning now to the changes in the Society and its present condition we find the number of the Society to be six hundred and ninety-five.

By counties the standing is as follows:

The most noticeable thing about these changes is the large number who have gone from the smaller towns to the more rapidly growing cities, and Hartford seems to have profited most by this change. The aggregate gain is small, only nine.

The new members with present residence, place and date of graduation, are as follows:

William Radley Miller, Albany, 1898, Southington.

E. Terry Smith, Yale, 1817, Hartford.

Edward Rutledge Lampson, P. & S., N. Y., '96, Hartford.
William Myron Weaver, Yale, '97, Hartford.
Patrick Joseph Ryan, Niagara, '98, Hartford.

Calvin Weidner, Univ. of Indianapolis, '93 Manchester.
Walter Ralph Steiner, Johns Hopkins, '98, Hartford.
Patrick James Dwyer, New York Univ., '97, Waterbury.
Julia E. Teele, Woman's Med., Coll., Phila., '88, New
Haven.

Harry Little Welch, Yale, 97, New Haven.

Paul Norwood, Omaha Med. Coll., '87, Ansonia.

Paul B. Kennedy, Bellevue, '96, Derby.

Millard Fillmore Allen, Medico-Chi., Phila., '95, New Ha

ven.

George Harvey Joslin, Univ. Vermont, '87, Mt. Carmel. Otto Gustaf Ramsey, Univ. Virginia, '90, New Haven. Harry Emory Ballard, Univ. Vermont, '93, Waterbury. Nelson Asa Pomeroy, P. & S., N. Y., 96, Waterbury. John James Carroll, Dartmouth, '97, Naugatuck. Thomas George Sloan, P. & S., '99, New Haven. Thomas John Lally, Albany, '99, Waterbury.