me that it would be well to include enough biographical material so that, if ever the opportunity for preparing a biographical directory of our members should present itself, we should have the data on hand for the purpose. To this end the application blanks for membership in each County Association should be revised to include the proper amount of material which could finally be sent, after the applicant is elected, to the State Secretary, and placed by him upon the proper card. I suggest that a committee be formed to consider this matter.

Respectfully submitted,

WALTER R. STEINER, Secretary.

Discussion.

The President: There are some suggestions made in this report. Have you anything to offer regarding them?

Dr. E. J. McKnight (Hartford): I move that a committee of three be appointed by the chair to consider those matters which the Secretary has recommended in his report and that they report at the meeting tomorrow morning. Motion adopted.

The President: I would nominate as that committee Dr. E. J. McKnight (Hartford), Dr. Frank K. Hallock (Cromwell), and Dr. W. S. Randall (Shelton).

(2) Report of the President, Dr. Nathaniel E. Wordin (Bridgeport):

Report of the President.

House of Delegates of the Connecticut State Medical Society Gentlemen:

The Connecticut State Medical Society is certainly to be congratulated on the opening of this, its one hundred and fourteenth annual meeting. For the first time we come together with Board of Councilors and House of Delegates, in closer touch with the societies of other States and the National organization, in the front of the medical movement of the twentieth century. It is hoped that our business may be wisely and quickly done, that our scientific work may be helpful and attractive, and that our professional ties. may be strengthened.

We shall carry on our sessions today with some difficulty, because everything is new. We have no precedents to fall back

While our by-laws are comprehensive, and, for the most part, easily understood, they are silent concerning the detail of certain duties which will devolve upon us. Among these are the election of honorary members and the election of our own officers. You will determine by your action whether you will nominate honorary members from the floor or whether you will have a standing committee for the purpose. But I suggest that some arrangement be made which shall secure for us the election of two or three honorary members each year. Similarly in the election of officers and delegates. Action should be uniform from year to year in such an important matter. It seems to me eminently fitting that the Board of Councilors should be made the Nominating Committee who should present to your body at the time appointed for the election, one or more candidates for each of the offices to be filled. This will place the matter in the hands of a body of conservative men of experience and judgment who are not likely to be influenced by political methods, and who, meeting from time to time during the year, will have this duty constantly before them: moreover, every County in the State will have a representation.

I suggest that Chapter V, Section 4, of the By-laws, be amended by striking out the word "preceding," before the word "section,' and inserting the word "one" after it, so that it shall read, "but no delegate shall be eligible to any office named in Section 1." I suggest further, that Chapter VIII, Section 1, be amended by inserting after the words, "A Committee on Public Policy and Legislation," the words, "A Committee on Medical Examinations," and that Section 4 should read, "The Committee on Medical Examinations shall consist of five members, who shall be appointed in accordance with Section 4717 of the Statute known as the Medical Practice Act. The Committee shall conduct the medical examinations of candidates for certificates of qualifications for license to practice medicine in the State in accord with the requirements of the Medical Practice Act. It shall annually present a written report to the House of Delegates. The Committee shall also be a Committee on Medical Education, and shall co-operate

with the Council of Education of the American Medical Association in the effort to elevate the standard of medical education in the United States."

Section 4 should be numbered Section 5.

The Committee on Medical Examinations has heretofore been only a creation of the State, through its Legislature, and, although its origin was in and its work for the Society, the Society has never adopted it by any act of its own. This it ought to do. The Committee as it now exists has no official connection with the Society, and hence the Society has no authority over it, should any be desired.

During the month of March, last, I have had correspondence with Dr. A. P. Colwell, assistant secretary of the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association, with a view to the formation of such a Council for this Society. My opinion from the first has been that the objects desired would be best accomplished in our State by intrusting it to our Examining Commit

tee.

The work in each case is somewhat similar; they lie alongside of one another. Our Committee is well organized, familiar with all its requirements; above all else it is efficient. I submitted the matter to them, asking them to consider it. I received the following letter in reply:

My Dear Dr. Wordin:

New Haven, March 24, 1906.

At a meeting of the Examining Committee, held today, the matter of the Committee on Medical Education was fully discussed. The Examining Committee wishes me to express to you that it is the belief of the Committee that, as conditions exist in our State, the Committee on Medical Examination and on Medical Education should be one and the same, and that, further, it is willing to place itself at the service of the Connecticut Medical Society or its President, if he or it so desires. Very truly yours,

C. A. TUTTLE, Secretary.

Dr. Henry O. Marcy, of Boston, an Honorary member of this Society, and personally known to many as a member of a committee

appointed to erect a memorial to Dr. Noah Davis, the founder of the American Medical Association, asks for an appropriation from this Society of two hundred and fifty dollars, in furtherance of the purpose. Too few of our profession are perpetuated in either

bronze or stone.

In accordance with Chapter VI, Section 1, of the By-laws, I have been present at the meetings of the various affiliated societies. I have visited the eight counties once, and New Haven, Windham, and Litchfield twice. I have been very much pleased with the cordiality of my reception, with the earnest work of most of the societies, with the interest each takes in his own. I feel sure that the provision by which the president is required to visit the County Associations, so happily inaugurated by my predecessor, Dr. Carmalt, will be very helpful. I suggest that more attention be paid to the interchange of Delegates from the various Counties, and that arrangements be made so that no two societies shall meet upon the same day.

The President of the Board of Councilors has suggestions in his report for which I bespeak your consideration.

(3) Report of the Chairman of the Council, Dr. George R. Shepherd (Hartford).

Report of the Chairman.

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: The Board of Councilors of The Connecticut Medical Society, beg leave to offer the following report for the year 1905-6:

In the last day of the annual meeting of this Society, May 25, 1905, the Councilors, appointed by President Carmalt, met and organized by the election of Dr. George R. Shepherd as chairman, and Dr. Frank K. Hallock as clerk. Four meetings have been held during the past twelve months, at which a number of important maters have received attention.

Dr. Walter R. Steiner was appointed editor of the Transactions and Memoirs, with Doctors N. E. Wordin and William H. Carmalt as his assistants.

Eight hundred and forty-eight volumes of the Transactions for 1905 have been distributed to the members of this Society, and to others entitled to receive them, and two volumes remain on hand. The total cost of printing and distributing these eight hundred and fifty volumes has been $1,187.63. The Secretary has in his possession a large number of the Transactions of former years, in all four hundred and sixty volumes; and the former secretary, President Wordin, writes that there are about two hundred more in his possession that are to be forwarded to the Secretary. It will evidently be necessary for the Society to provide some place for the storage of these books and papers, and we would advise that this matter be referred to the Secretary and Chairman of the Board of Councilors, with power.

The salary of the Secretary was fixed for the past year at $150.00, the same amount as paid the previous year.

An effort has been made to arrange the dates of the spring and fall meetings of the County Associations so that they shall not conflict, thus making it possible for the President, and such delegates as may desire, to attend all the meetings. This has been partially accomplished, and can undoubtedly be arranged during the coming

year.

Deeming it desirable that there should be uniformity regarding the admission of members into the Society through the County Associations, the Board of Councilors directed the Secretary to write the secretaries of each County Association, urging that a residence of twelve months in this State, and six months in the County, be required of all new members admitted, and it is hoped that this requirement will become general.

At the last annual banquet a considerable charge was made against the Society for wines, liquors and tobacco, not included in the price of $2.50 per plate. In former years such items have been provided for from the funds paid by exhibitors, but as, by vote of the annual meeting in 1904, the practice of allowing exhibitors to be present was abandoned, there was no alternative but to authorize the payment of the bill, unless the Committee of Arrangements became personally responsible for it. The Board accordingly directed the payment of this bill, but the Committee of Arrangements for this year (1906) has been instructed not to provide malt or al