MINUTES OF THE HOUSE OF

DELEGATES.

The first meeting of the House of Delegates was called to order on Wednesday, May 23d, at 12 o'clock, at Harmonie Hall, by the President, Dr. N. E. Wordin, of Bridgeport. There were present, Dr. George R. Shepherd, Dr. Charles J. Foote, Dr. William H. Donaldson, Dr. Selden B. Overlock, Dr. George H. Knight, Dr. Frank K. Hallock, and Dr. William L. Higgins (councilors), and Dr. Everett J. McKnight, Dr. Ansel G. Cook, Dr. George W. Lawrence, Dr. John W. Felty, Dr. John B. Boucher, Dr. Kenneth E. Kellogg, Dr. Gustavus Eliot, Dr. Norton R. Hotchkiss, Dr. Henry G. Anderson, Dr. Harry M. Lee, Dr. William H. Gray, Dr. D. Chester Brown, Dr. J. Reed Topping, Dr. Francis J. Nettleton, Dr. William S. Randall, Dr. Charles C. Gildersleeve, Dr. Henry L. Hammond, Dr. Philip H. Sellew, Dr. Elias Pratt, Dr. Miner C. Hazen, Dr. Arthur B. Coleburn, and Dr. Ernest O. Winship (delegates). The following reports were then

read and accepted.

(1) Report of the Secretary, Dr. Walter R. Steiner (Hartford).

Report of the Secretary.

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates:

We are just completing the first year under our revised charter and by-laws, which has joined us by a closer bond of union with the American Medical Association. We trust our members, on account of this new era, will show a renewed love and interest in this society by attending its meetings as regularly as possible and doing all that in them lies for furthering the unity, peace, and concord which should knit us all into one harmonious body. With a firm, united stand, let us strive to "federate and bring into one compact organization the entire medical profession of the State of

Connecticut, and to unite with similar societies of other States to form the American Medical Association; to extend medical knowledge and advance medical science; to elevate the standard of medical education, and to secure the enactment and enforcement of just medical laws; to promote friendly intercourse among physicians; to guard and foster the material interests of our members, and to protect them against imposition; and to enlighten and direct public opinion in regard to the great problems of State medicine, so that the profession shall become more capable and honorable within itself and more useful to the public, in the prevention and cure of disease, and in prolonging and adding comfort to life." With such high aims, recorded in our by-laws and sealed by a determination among ourselves to make them effectual, the useful future of our society is assured.

The past year has shown some very noticeable changes in our membership. We have lost some members whose presence and council have been of great value to the society at former meetings. Two had occupied the presidential chair. Our total number of members at present is 780, distributed as follows:

Our present membership represents a gain of 22 over last year, and, with the 23 honorary members, brings our total number up to 803. Hartford and New Haven Counties have added the most new members, 12 being noted in each; Fairfield comes next with 5, New London and Tolland with 3, Windham and Litchfield with 2, and Middlesex with 1. The names of the new members, with graduation and places of residence, are:

Edward Alfred Hotchkiss, McGill Univ., 1904, Collinsville.

Noah Arthur Burr, Yale, 1901, Manchester.

Mark Spalding Bradley, P. & S., N. Y., 1892, Hartford.

Harry Colman Clifton, Univ. Pa., 1901, Hartford.

Richard Ambrose Outterson, Jefferson, 1902, Windsor Locks.
Robert Sythoss Starr, P. & S., N. Y., 1901, Hartford.

Catherine Hutchison Travis, Johns Hopkins, 1903, New Britain.
Arthur Carl Heublein, P. & S., N. Y., 1902, Hartford.
John Law Bridge, Harvard, 1903, Thompsonville.
Ralph Benjamin Cox, McGill Univ., 1902, Collinsville.
Harry Kolman Loew, P. & S., N. Y., 1902, Hartford.
William Myron Stockwell, Univ. Pa., 1904, Suffield.
Nelson Amos Ludington, Yale, 1901, New Haven.
Dwight Milton Lewis, Johns Hopkins, 1901, New Haven.
Seymour Leopold Spier, Yale, 1904, New Haven.
John Edward Farrell, N. Y. Univ., 1903, Waterbury.
William Hill Bean, Yale, 1903, New Haven.
Charles Engelke, P. & S., N. Y., 1902, Waterbury.
Louis Frederick Wheatley, Tufts, 1903, Meriden.
John George Hugo, P. & S., Balt., 1903, New Haven.
Thomas Joseph McLarney, P. & S., Balt., 1897, Waterbury.
Edward Reed Whittemore, P. & S., N. Y., 1902, New Haven.
Edward O'Reilly Maguire, P. & S., N. Y., 1898, Derby.

Charles Ambrose Bevan, Med. Chir., Phila., 1887, West Haven.
Francis Winthrop Pyle, P. & S., N. Y., 1902, Bridgeport.

Harriet Baker Hyde, Michigan Univ., 1900, Greenwich.

Eli Butler Ives, Yale, 1903, Bridgeport.

Francis Irwin Burnell, L. I. Coll. Hosp., 1894, South Norwalk.

Richard Matthew English, Yale, 1898, Danbury.

Charles Flagg Whitney, Univ. Vt., 1903, Norwich.

Joseph Matthew Ganey, P. & S., Balt., 1904, New London.

Edwin Atkinson, Univ. Vt., 1893, Niantic.

Cyrus Henry Pendleton, Western Reserve, 1860, Hebron.

Cyrus Edmund Pendleton, Yale, 1903, Hebron.

Willard Nelson Simmons, Univ. Vt., 1889, Tolland.

Edward Franklin Perry, L. I. Coll. Hosp., 1897, Putnam.

Emilien Rock, Victoria School, Montreal, 1889, North Grosvenor Dale.

William George Reynolds, Yale, 1887, Woodbury.

Howard Granson Stevens, Balt. Med., 1904, West Cornwall.

Edward Gould Rowland, Balt. Med., 1903, Westbrook.