I make no comment upon the absence in this State of laws regulating the practice of medicine, having never been able to make up my mind whether such laws do not do more ill than good, my own experience from a residence in one State having such laws (Louisiana) being that the burden of them falls upon the honest part of the profession.

Yours truly,

R. J. FARQUHARSON.

The report of the Secretary, was on motion, accepted.

On motion the Secretary was authorized to print a small circular on small-pox, and to pay for telegrams announcing outbreaks of that disease.

Adjourned to 1:30 P. M.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

1 O'CLOCK, P. M.

Present, Dr. Clark and all other members.

The Secretary read a paper on the Danger of Small-pox Hospitals, which was approved and ordered printed in the biennial report.

On motion Dr. W. S. Robertson was unanimously re-elected President of the Board for the ensuing year.

On motion the Secretary was authorized to expend five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purchase of books for the Library during the year.

Bills were audited on vouchers 303 to 319, inclusive, and ordered paid by the Secretary.

On motion the computation of expenses of the Board meeting was made as follows:

On motion the Board adjourned to meet at Des Moines the second Wednesday in November next.

LIBRARY.

The following books have been received by purchase or exchange, for the library of the State Board:

HYGIENE.

Hygiene and Public Health, 2 vols. (Buck.)
Practical Hygiene. (Parks-Chaumont.)
Report of United States Navy Department, 1879.
Bible Hygiene. (A Physician.)

Lectures on State Medicine. (DeChaumont.)
American Health Primers. 12 vols.:

I. Hearing, and How to Keep it. (Burnett.)
II. Long Life and How to Reach it. (Richardson.)
III. Summer and its Diseases. (Wilson.)
IV. Eye-sight and How to Care for it. (Harlan.)
V. The Throat and Voice. (Cohen.)

VI. Winter and its Dangers. (Osgood.)
VII. The Mouth and the Teeth. (White.)
VIII. Brain Work and Overwork. (Wood.)
IX. Our Homes. (Hartshorne.)

X. The Skin in Health and Disease. (Burkley.)
XI. Sea Air and Sea Bathing. (Packard.)
XII. School and Industrial Hygiene. (Lincoln.)

Hygiene of Schools. (Budgett.)

Hygiene of Infants. (Walton.)

Physiological Memoirs, 1863. (Hammond.)

Hygiene and Physiology.

Public Health. (Guy.)

Health Primers. 9 vols.:

I. Exercise and Training. (Kalfe.)

II. Alcohol, its Use and Abuse. (Greenfield.)
III. The House and its Surroundings.

IV. Premature Death; its Promotion and Prevention.

V. Personal Appearances. (Coupland.)

VI. Baths and Bathing.

VII. The Skin and its Troubles.

VIII. The Heart and its Functions.

IX. The Nervous System.

A sober and temperate life. (Cornaro.)

Nuevos, elementos de Hygiene. 2 vols. (Londe.)

Hygiene of the United States Army, 1875.

American Public Health Association Reports, 1873 to 1882. 8 vols.

PAMPHLETS.

Hygiene Medical Reports, United States Navy, 1879.

Hygiene of the United States Army, 1875.

Hygiene Influence of Plants. (Pettenkoffer.)
Public Hygiene and State Medicine.

International Hygiene-Progress Of. (Cabell.)

Congress International d'Hygiene, 1882.

Internal Parasites of Domestic Animals. (Perkins.)
A City of Health-Address. (Richardson.)
Prophylaxis. (Ordronaux.)

Hygiene of Mines. (Raymond.)

Health Matters in Japan. (Morse.)

How to Maintain Long Life. (Cornaro.)
Effect of Lead on the Heart. (Carson.)
Plants in Living Rooms. (Anders.)
Cereals Under the Microscope. (Cutter.)

SANITARY.

The Sanitarian. 10 vols. 1873-83.

Drainage of Houses and Towns. (Waring.)

Sanitary Engineering. (Philbreck.)

Construction of Hospitals. (Galton.)

Hand-book of House Sanitation. (Bailey-Denton.)

Sanitary Care of Children.

Hospitals for the Insane. (Kirkbride.)

Heating and Ventilation of Hospitals. (Billings.)

Model By-laws for Sanitary Authorities. (Loudon.)

Sanitary Engineering. (Denton.)

Sewers and Drains. (Adams.)

House Drainage and Water Service. (Bayles.)
Ventilation. (Leeds.)

Milk Analysis. (Wanklyn.)

History of Massachusetts' General Hospital. 2 vols. (Bowditch.) Hospitals for Infectious Diseases. 10th London report.

Prisons in England and Wales, A. D., 1777. (Howard.)

By-laws of the Town of Boston, A. D., 1801.

Employment of Children in Mines. 2 vols. (Waring.)

English Coal Mines. 2 vols. 1851-54. (Dunn.)

Healthy Houses. (Eassie.)

Journal of Prison Discipline. (Penn.) 2 vols.

Mental Cultivation and Excitement. (Brigham.)

Rush's Essays. 1806. (Rush.)

Hospital Construction. (Hopkins.)

Herbert Hospital at Woolwich. (Galton.)

Purification of Water-carried Sewerage. (Robinson and Melliss.) Health of towns Commission Report. (English.) 2 vols. 1844. Veterinary Sanitary Science. (Fleming.)

Hand-book for Hospitals.

Hand-book of Rural Sanitary Science. (Marsh.)

Manual of Public Health. (Hart.)

Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Hand-book. (Boulnois.)
Sanitary Engineer. 5 vols.

Separate System of Sewerage. (Waring.)

Management of Privies. (N. O. San. Assoc.)

Regulations of Mississippi Valley Sanitary Council. 1879-82.

Rural Cemeteries. (Cleveland.)

Quarantine Regulations, National Board of Health.

Infectious Diseases, Act of Congress to Prevent.

Drainage and Sewerage of New Orleans.

Sewerage of Worcester, Massachusetts.
Quarantine Laws of Louisiana. 1880.

1882.

Address of Dr. Fenner, N. O. Auxil. San. Assoc. 1880.
Address of N. O. Auxil. San. Assoc. to cities and towns.

1879.