Examining Board, Eastern Shore.-G. T. Atkinson, B. W. Goldsborough, A. H. Bayley, James Bordley and S. T. Earle.

On motion of Dr. H. P. C. Wilson, the Recording Secretary was requested to express our sympathy to our afflicted member and ex-President, Dr. William M. Kemp.

The President directed the Secretary to read the following list as his appointments for the ensuing year: STANDING COMMITTEES.

Library Committee.-I. E. Atkinson, B. B. Browne, T. B. Brune, G. Lane Taneyhill and John N. Mackenzie.

Publication Committee.-G. Lane Taneyhill, W. F. A. Kemp, A. B. Arnold, W. A. Moale and H. H. Biedler.

Memoir Committee.-E. G. Waters, E. F. Cordell, C. Johnston, Jr., J. F. Monmonier and John Morris.

Committee on Ethics.-P. C. Williams, Samuel C. Chew, J. C. Thomas, F. E. Chatard, Jr., and Charles H. Ohr.

Curator.-Joseph T. Smith.

SECTIONS.

Section on Surgery.-J. E. Michael, W. B. Platt, O. J. Coskery, John W. Chambers and T. W. Simmons.

Section on Practice.-Samuel C. Chew, John S. Lynch, W. D. Booker, W. S. Forwood and James Bordley.

Section on Obstetrics and Gynecology.-Wilmer Brinton, B. B. Browne, R. T. Wilson, A. F. Erich and A. H. Bayley.

Section on Materia Medica and Therapeutics.-I. E. Atkinson, Claude Van Bibber, William Green, R. H. Thomas and George. H. Hocking.

Section on Sanitary Science.-E. G. Waters, W. C. Van Bibber, William Lee, Jackson Piper and F. E. Chatard, Jr.

Section on Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology.-R. Winslow, Jos. T. Smith, W. T. Councilman, Thos. S. Latimer and G. E. Porter. Section on Psychology and Medical Jurisprudence.-A. B. Arnold, John S. Conrad, Charles G. Hill, G. Lane Taneyhill and R. Gundry. Section on Microscopy, Micro-Chemistry and Spectral Analysis.— L. M. Eastman, L. H. Steiner, Adolph G. Hoen, T. B. Brune and C. Johnston, Sr.

Section on Ophthalmology, Otology and Laryngology.-J. J. Chisolm, John N. Mackenzie, H. C. McSherry, Samuel Theobald and Samuel Johnson.

Delegates to American Medical Association.-J. E. Chamberlaine, A. B. Arnold, J. J. Chisolm, John S. Lynch, John Barron, John Morris, J. F. Perkins, J. Lee McComas, James S. Martin, Charles G. Macgill, G. T. Atkinson, B. R. Benson, George F. Corse, Charles H. Diller, B. W. Goldsborough, J. H. Grimes, Arthur Williams, John M. Williams and John W. Chambers.

Alternates.-W. S. Maxwell and J. H. Prentiss.

Delegate to Pennsylvania State Medical Association.-John Barron.

Delegate to Virginia State Medical Association.-John S. Conrad. Delegates to Alabama State Medical Association.-P. H. Rieche and W. J. Jones.

Delegate to West Virginia Medical Association.-George B. Reynolds.

DR. JOHN R. QUINAN, the retiring President, then delivered the following valedictory remarks:

Gentlemen of the Faculty:

One word at parting. Let me thank you for your kind indulgence to the infirmity which prevented me from more actively participating in the proceedings of this Convention, and let me join you in thanking my worthy colleague, Vice-President Dr. Ed. C. Baldwin, for the very efficient manner in which he has met my deficiencies.

Let me also congratulate you on the harmony with which all the members have worked together for the promotion and dissemination of medical and surgical knowledge, and on the very able and eloquent contributions, written and oral, which many of them. have made towards this end, and which will add largely to the valuable treasury of professional wisdom and experience that has been accumulating for the benefit of ourselves and others for the past eighty-seven years of our existence as a society.

The importance of such organizations as ours, in this point of view, can hardly be overestimated. "For, as water," to quote the quaint language of Lord Bacon, "whether it be the dew of Heaven or the springs of earth, easily scatters in the ground, except it be collected into some receptacle, where it may, by union and consort, comfort and sustain itself, (and for that cause the industry of man has devised aqueducts, cisterns and pools, and likewise beautified them with various ornaments of magnificence and state, as well as for use and necessity), so this excellent liquor of knowl

edge, whether it descend from divine inspiration or spring from human sense, would soon perish and vanish into oblivion if it were not for books, traditions, conferences, and especially in places appointed for such matters, as universities, colleges, schools and societies, where it may have both a fixed habitation, and means and opportunity of increasing and collecting itself." (De augmentis scientiarum. Bk. 11.)

Let me also congratulate you on the fair and impartial discussion which my defense of the legal rights of the Faculty to regulate the Practice of Medicine in Maryland has received from all the leading papers of this city, and especially from the Sun, which is so able an exponent and leader of popular rights and sentiments. It is unnecessary to say that we intend, in the enforcement of this claim, no harsh invasion of the rights of others, but simply to protect ourselves and the community against the encroachments of quackery. No practitioner of medicine in this State, who can furnish satisfactory proof of his qualification, by the production of a diploma from "a respectable Medical College" (and all in this State are such), or, in the absence of such diploma, by a satisfactory examination, need fear a failure to secure a license from this Faculty. The Legislature of this State has imposed upon us the duty of preventing our "citizens from risking their lives in the hands of ignorant pretenders to the healing art," and we intend to perform it, without "fear, favor or affection," and we presume no one who has any regard for the welfare of the community, in or out of the profession, can feel aggrieved at this.

Brethren, while I am warned by the increasing infirmities of age that I cannot much longer enjoy the privilege of participating in your meetings, I do hope that my span of life may be extended to see this venerable Faculty in the full possession of its ancient vested rights, as the legal protector of the sanitary welfare of the people of Maryland, and as the uncompromising foe of charlatanism and quackery.

On motion of Dr. John Morris, the thanks of the Faculty were returned to the retiring President, and the Convention was, by the presiding officer, declared adjourned sine die.

G. LANE TANEYHILL, M. D.,
Recording Secretary.

REPORTS.

REPORT OF CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

BALTIMORE, MD., April 27, 1886.

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland :

The Corresponding Secretary has to report that he has conducted the correspondence of the Faculty and performed the other duties pertaining to his office to the best of his knowledge and ability.

Very respectfully,

T. BARTON BRUNE, M. D.,
Corresponding Secretary.

TREASURER'S REPORT.

Mr. President and Members:

BALTIMORE, MD., April 27, 1886.

In presenting the Treasurer's report for the fiscal year ending April 26, 1886, your attention is called to the state of our finances. In the report given last year an indebtedness on the part of the Faculty was shown of $99.55, which was the balance of our debt contracted in publishing the Medical Annals." This year we show an increased indebtedness, which increase comes from

expenses incurred in renting a hall for annual meeting of 1885, at a cost of $74.25, including chairs and janitor for same, with hauling necessary. These items must come out of our income

from dues and fees of members.

The expenses, $307.60, incurred in removing from the old hall to the present one, and of furnishing where we now are, were, by order of the Executive Committee, taken from the fund of $500, which your Treasurer has not used in the running expenses of the Faculty during the past year. The Faculty will, therefore,

remember that we have a reserve fund of $192.40 at this time, instead of $500, which has heretofore appeared as an item in our assets.

At the last meeting of the Faculty a resolution requiring the Treasurer to report quarterly to the Library Board was passed: The spirit of the resolution has not been disobeyed, though the letter of the law was impossible to be met. The needs of the Library were not forgotten, as will appear when the amount of dues collected netted the Faculty $1,100, and there was paid of this amount to the Board $531.80, only $23 short of the whole amount they justly should have received.

By the closest economy and the liberality of the local societies that rent this hall from the Faculty, we are enabled to present the gratifying figures that are appended to this report.

Our gains have been 9, by the initiation of Samuel T. Earle, W. T. Councilman, W. I. Jones, George T. Atkinson, B. R. Benson, E. E. Mackenzie, B. W. Goldsborough, H. H. Biedler and George I. Preston.

Our loss by resignation has been 2: Dr. Carlos Pieck and Dr. G. H. Boyland.

We drop for arrears : Nathaniel Chapman, Joseph M. Cockrill, . William Correll and W. Gray Smith.

Death has removed from among us Dr. Ed. De Loughery, Dr. Thomas Dougherty, Dr. Richard McSherry and Dr. Edward Schwartze, making our loss aggregate 10.

Donations have been received by the Library Board, of which they will make mention.

The Faculty may well congratulate itself on the fair showing it is able to make at its Eighty-eighth Annual Session.

Our receipts and expenditures appear in the following exhibit, which is respectfully submitted :