Practice of Medicine, Materia Medica, and Physiology: Dr. F. C. Shattuck, Chairman, Boston, Mass.; Dr. G. A. Fackler, Secretary, Cincinnati, Ohio. Obstetrics and Diseases of Women: Dr. W. H. Wathen, Chairman, Louisville, Ky.; Dr. A. B. Carpenter, Secretary, Cleveland, Ohio. Surgery and Anatomy: Dr. N. P. Dandridge, Chairman, Cincinnati, Ohio; Dr. W. O. Roberts, Secretary, Louis ville, Ky. State Medicine: Dr. J. Berrien Linds ley, Chairman, Nashville, Tenn., Dr. S. T. Armstrong, Secretary, U. S. M. Hospital Service. Ophthalmology: Dr. Geo. E. Frothingham, Chairman, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Dr. G. C. Savage, Secretary, Nashville, Tenn. Laryngology and Otology: Dr. W. H. Daly, Chairman, Pittsburg, Pa., Dr. E. Fletcher Ingalls, Secretary, Chicago, Ills. Diseases of Children: Dr. J. A. Larrabee, Chairman, Louisville, Ky.; Dr. C. J. Jennings, Secretary, Detroit, Mich. Oral and Dental Surgery: Dr. F. H. Rehwinkle, Chairman, Chillicothe, Ohio; Dr. E. S. Talbot, Secretary, Chicago, Ills. Medical Jurisprudence: Dr. James Y. Kiernann, Chairman, Dunning, Ills.; Dr. T. C. Evans. Secretary, Baltimore, Md. Dermatology and Syphilography: Dr L. D. Bulkley, Chairman, New York; Dr. W. T. Corlett, Secretary, Cleveland Ohio. A member desiring to read a paper before a Section should forward the paper, or its title and length (not to exceed twenty minutes in reading), to the Chairman of the appropriate Section at least one month before the meeting.By-Laws. Special attention is called to the folRules of the Association: It shall be the duty of every member of the Association who proposes to present a paper or report to any one of the Sections, to forward either the paper, or a title indicative of its contents, and its length, to the Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements at least one month before the annual meeting at which the paper or report is to be read. It shall also be the duty of the Chairman and Secretary of each Section to communicate the same information to the Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements concerning such papers and reports as may come into their possession or know| ledge for their respective Sections, the same length of time before the annual meeting. And the Committee of Arrangements shall determine the order of reading or presentation of all such papers, and announce the same in the form of a programme for the use of all members attending the annual meeting. Such programme shall also contain the rules specified in the By-laws and Ordinances concerning the consideration and disposal of all papers in the Sections. No report or other paper shall be entitled to publication in the volume for the year in which it shall be presented to the Association, unless it be placed in the hands of the Committee of Publicacation on or before the first day of July. It must also be so prepared as to require no material alteration or addition at the hands of its author. Every paper or address received by this Associatoin, or by a Section, and ordered to be published, and all reports of Committees, and all plates or other means of illustration, shall be considered the exclusive property of the Association, and shall be published and sold for the exclusive benefit of the Associa tion. ORDINANCES. Resolved, That the several Sections of this Association be requested, in the future, to refer no papers or reports to the Committee of Publication, except such as can be fairly classed under one of the three following heads, namely: 1. Such as may contain and establish positively new facts, modes of practice, or principles of real value. 2. Such as may contain the results of well-devised orginal experimental researches. 3. Such as present so complete a review of the facts on any particular subject as to enable the writer to deduce therefrom legitimate conclusions of importance. Resolved, That the several Sections be requested, in the future, to refer all such papers as may be presented to them for examination by this Association, that contain matter of more or less value, and yet cannot be fairly ranked under either of the heads mentioned in the foregoing resolution, back to their authors with the recommendation that they be published in such regular medical periodicals as said authors may select, with the privilege of placing at the head of such papers, "Read to the Section of the American Medical Association on the day of 18 " (Vide Transactions, vol. xvi, p. 40.) Resolved, That no report or other paper shall be presented to this Association unless it be so prepared that it can be put at once into the hands of the Permanent Secretary, to be transmitted to the Committee of Publication. (Vide Transactions, vol. xvii, p. 27. NOTICE TO EXHIBITORS. Intending exhibitors should address Dr. Charles A. Brackett, Chairman SubCommittee upon Exhibition. will be entertained: The following classes of applications 1. Medical books and stationery, charts and diagrams, busts portraits, engravings, photographs, etc. 2. Hospital and ambulance plans and models. 3. Surgical instruments and supplies, general and special (gynæcic, obstetric, orthopedic, dental, etc.) 4. Microscopes, analysis outfits, and electro-galvanic apparatus. 5. Pharmaceutic products. 6. Rubber goods applicable to medicine and surgery. 7. Invalid furniture. 9. Sanitary appliances, as ventilators, filters, w. c. basins, traps, and similar necessities, and disinfectants. As a large attendance is probable, while the space available for exhibits is comparatively limited, the advantage of early application will be perceived. Choice of space will be given in accordance with the date of application. Applicant should state the character of their proposed exhibits, that they may be assigned to their respective groups. The Sub-Committee reserve the right of rejection, in case of apparent reason. OFFICIAL NOTICE. The Association having departed from its usual custom of convening in the chief cities, by deciding to meet the present year at a simple watering place that, despite its repute, is without certain of the resources hitherto relied upon, the Committee of Arrangements ask in advance for the kind consideraation of the multitude of physicians whom they trust soon to welcome. A fact or two in this connection may perpaps be stated. Ordinarily a great many local medical men appointed to aid the Arrangements Committee, and thereby the duties of each are rendered less onerous. In the present instance, of the eighteen names fifteen comprise the sum total of the resident (regular) physicians of Newport, while the renaning three are dental practitioners. The Committee is therefore this time absolutely "of the whole." Of its numLer but a single one has ever been a member of the Association, or even at tended a meeting. All who comprise it are, however, heartily in accord, and will do their best, trusting that their good will may make amends for their lack of previous experience. THE COMMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS is constituted as follows: Drs. C. F. Barker, M. E. Baldwin, C. A. Brackett, J. P. Curley, P. F. Curley, J. P. Donovan, II. Ecroyd, Jr., V. M. Francis, C. A. Rankin, W. C. Rives, Jr., E. P. Robinson, S. H. Sears, W. S. Sherman, H. R. Storer, and H. E. Turner, of Newport; Surgeon S. M. Horton and Asst. Surgeon R. W. Johnson, U. S. A., of Fort Adams, and Surgeons J. C. Wise, of the Torpedo Station, and T. L. Neilson, and Asst. Surgeons Arnold and Von Wedekind, of the Naval Training School, U. S. N., ex-officio; and, as an Associate Committee appointed by the Rhode Island Medical Society, Drs. G. D. Hersey, W. H. Palmer and G. T. Swarts, of Providence. THE SUB-COMMITTEES ARE: Transportation.-Drs. P. F. Curley and Palmer, Section Work and Programme.—The Chairman and Local Secretary. If, as occasion may arise, correspond ents will kindly address the respective heads of the Sub-Committees, it will very materially lighten the labors of the Chairman-in-chief. It is probably generally understood that the titles of papers to be presented to the Sections should, in the first instance, be sent to their Chairman. Already a large number of communications have thus been listed, and there is reason to expect that the meeting will be a peculiarly interesting one in this regard, but to ensure a hearing at all early in the Session, there should be no longer delay upon the part of contributors. Dr. The Local Secretary appointed at Cincinnati by the Association, having, in consequence of removal to another city, resigned his position, the Committee were for a while embarrassed. Valentine Mott Francis, formerly of New York, has however, consented to fill the vacancy, at the unanimous request of his colleagues. Though Dr. Francis has for some years retired from practice, he has none the less retained interest in the profession, which in the past, was so honored by those whose famous names he bears. It was thought best, after consultation with the other officers of the Association, to postpone the date of meeting from the first to the last Tuesday (the Finance.—Drs. Rankin, MacKaye and 25th) of June, for the reasons that the Hersey. Reception. Drs. Turner and Odell. chief hotel of the place would not open until that date; and that earlier the town would not be so attractive, nor the weather as likely to be favorable. The general Sessions will be held at the Music Hall, Bellevue Avenue, ad fic, and best contented meetings that has yet been held. HORATIO R. STORER, M. D., Chairman Committee of Arrangements. joining the Ocean House, and those of MY TRIP TO ATLANTIC CITY IN the Sections at the Newport Casino, also immediately contiguous, which for the first time in its history, and as an act of courtesy, is permitted by its Governors to be occupied for other than the pur pose for which it was built. The hotels are, in order of their nearness to the place of meeting, the Ocean House, the Clifton House, the Germania Hotel, Pinard's, Hartmann's, the Aquidneck, Brayton's, the Kay Street House, the Perry House, the Park House, the Sherman House, the Cliff Avenue Hotel and Bateman's. It is as yet uncertain whether there will be, by the time of meeting, a new hotel at the Newport Beach. The meeting of the Association occurs nearly synchronously with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Newport. The city authorities will probably fittingly recognize the presence of the National Medical Convention at sneh a moment, the more cordially since the virtual founder of the colony, certainly its principal leader, John Clark, was a physician. It will add to the interest of the occasion that the now Mayor of the City was one of the incorporators, in 1879, of the Newport Sanitary Protection Association, and is the parent of a rapidly rising physician, in New York. The ancient name of Newport Island was "Aquidneck," or "The Isle of Peace." In view of this, it is to be hoped that the wisdom of the Association in turning away, the present year, from the mutual rivalries and the internal dissensions inseparable from the great centres of practice and of medical education, to what is virually neutral ground may be made manifest, and that the coming Session may prove one of largest, most harmonious, most scienti THREE AND THREE-QUARTER HOURS. Editor New England Medical Monthly: Who has not heard of Atlantic City as a health resort on the ocean "all the year around?" But to reach the place from New York in three hours and forth-five minutes is an innovation which ought to be known more generally. How this can be accomplished every day in the year, is the purpose of these lines. In January last I received the following invitation: Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey. Office of the General Passenger Agent, 112 Liberty Street. DEAR SIR:-Preparatory to the opening of our new fast express service between New York and Atlantic City, an excursion trip will be made over the route on Wednesday, January 9th, 1889, in which you are cordially invited to participate. A special train will leave the station at foot of Liberty Street, N. .R, at 9 o'clock, a. m., arriving at Atlantic City, 1 p. m., where the party will be entertained as the guests of the principal Hotel Managers. Returning, the train will leave Atlantic City about 4 p. m. and reach New York at 9 o'clock. Soliciting a favorable response for yourself or an appointed representative. Yours very truly, H. P. BALDWIN, General Passenger Agent. DR. ROBT. NEWMAN, New York. I took advantage of the opportunity and at 9 a. m. left New York City from the foot of Liberty Street. The train was made up of palace cars, including one car as a dining coach in which an elegant lunch was continuously served. The train moved rapidly and easily on Tenderloin of Beef-larded with mush rooms String Beans Perrier Jouet, Frappe Chicken Croquettes French Peas Red Head Duck--Currant Jelly the steel way through Elizabethport, Our party had been previously divid ed in four sections, each number receiving a neat card "with the compliments of the hotel proprietors of Atlantic City," directing the holder to either of the four hotels, Brighton, Mansion, SeaSide and Hotel Dennis, whose proprietors had tendered the invitation to our party. Thither we went. The weather clerk was up to his old tricks, letting down rain by the buckets full, but the management was equal to the emergency and had omnibuses waiting in the Depot so that we passed from the cars without getting moistened, except such moisture as we absorbed in the dining car during the run down. We were whirled away to Hotel Brighton where, on entering, the genial Proprietor greeted us with a cheerful grate fire in the reading room, which was well supplied with luxurious arm chairs, writing desks, papers and books-ad infinitum, and, by the way, there is an equally leasant reading room for ladies. Wearying of this, we sauntered through the various cozy private parlors furnished with all the elegance of a well appointed hotel of New York City. But I came near omitting to mention the elegant dinner omitting to mention the elegant dinner furnished us by this hotel. I cannot tell you what we had in a better way than to furnish a copy of then Menu: Absecon Salt Oysters Sauterne Mock Turtle Dressed Lettuce Chaml extin Roquefort Cheese Crackers Nuts Coffee Ice Cream Fruit Segars. Coffee The most fastidious gourmand, after scrutinizing closely could find no fault, except, perhaps that the dinner was too good, and such a variety that he could not eat all. The Terrapin a la Brighton excelled particularly, and if my New England friends have any doubt, let them go thither themselves, and I am sure they will admit that neither Barnums Menagerie nor the Danbury News raise such terrapins. Just try it once! The table was presided over by Hon. J. B. Colgate, a very genial gentleman, well known as a financial success in New York enterprises. Toasts were given and responded in short speeches by General Passenger Agent, H. P. Baldwin, Dr. Bordman Reed, of Atlantic City, Col. C. H. Tayleure, of Brooklyn, R. H. L. Townsend, Mr. Homans, Mr. Bradshaw and your humble servant. After dinner, owing to the stormy weather which kept us indoors, time had not Mr. Hemsley, the genial promust have hung heavily on our hands prietor, and his two gentlemanly clerks of the hotel, Messrs. Turner and Gummey, led us into the grand parlor and whiled away the time with pleasant stories of the place, and of the weary ride it was from New York to Atlantic City when one was obliged to go first to Philadelphia, then in a horse car traverse the City of Brotherly love, and across the river by a ferryboat to Camden, and then on a slow train crawl down to Atlantic City, necessitating the loss of a |
