of the Institute for the successful and satisfactory manner in which the committee had performed its duties. Herein is given the text of the report: DENVER, COLO., June 14, 1894. The Committee of Publication respectfully reports that the TRANSACTIONS for the session of 1893 were published in the usual form, the specific directions of the By-Laws being carefully followed. The work makes a volume of 462 pages only-there having been no scientific essays or reports presented at the session. Your Committee has also had in charge the publication of the Transactions of the World's Congress of Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons, as referred to the Executive Committee a year ago. It makes a handsome volume of 1109 pages, octavo. The work has been distributed to members of the Institute entitled, and to those institutions, etc., to which complimentary copies of our TRANSACTIONS are usually forwarded. PEMBERTON DUDLEY, M.D. J. H. MCCLELLAND, M.D., Chairman. General Secretary. THE REPORT OF THE TREASURER, Dr. E. M. Kellogg, was then read by that officer and referred to an auditing committee consisting of Drs. J. C. Nottingham, W. H. Hanchett and J. B. Kinley. The report showed a balance in the treasury amounting to $972.30. (See the "Report of the Treasurer and Auditing Committee.") THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE INSTITUTE'S JUBILEE was offered by Dr. I. T. Talbot, the chairman. It consisted of the order of exercises prepared by the committee for the celebration to be held this evening in honor of the fiftieth anniversity of the founding of the Institute. The report was on motion accepted. THE REPORT OF THE NECROLOGIST, Dr. Henry M. Smith, came next in order. In it the Necrologist reports the names of the members who will be commemorated in the Necrologist's full report, to be presented at the memorial service. Twenty-two members had died during the past year. The report was accepted. THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE MEMORIAL SERVICE in the absence of Dr. J. C. Burgher, the Committee Chairman, was offered by Dr. Henry M. Smith. It included a proposed program of the Memorial Service to be held in the Central Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening at eight o'clock. Report accepted. THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION was read by its Chairman, Dr. C. E. Fisher. Dr. Wilson A. Smith offered an amendment to the report omitting from it all mention of any particular railroad lines. This amendment was lost and the report was then accepted and referred to the Committee of Publication. The report is as here given : The work of the Transportation Committee this year has been attended with many difficulties. Disturbances among the members of the Western Passenger Association, over Mid-Winter Fair and other rates, made it impossible for your committee to secure favorable action at the hands of that Association early enough in the season to suit our purposes, and it became necessary to secure the cooperation of some individual line in order to enable the members of the Institute to travel to Denver at a minimum of cost and with the greatest possible pleasure and comfort. To do this required no little work and the display of considerable forbearance upon the part of your committee, and it was only after nearly four months of effort that we were enabled by an offer from the Union Pacific line covering territory as far East as Missouri River points to secure the cooperation of the Chicago and Alton line from Chicago and St. Louis to Kansas City, there to connect with the Union Pacific line to Denver. This co-operation secured we were able to announce a single fare from those points to Denver and return, and to announce also an American Institute of Homoeopathy special train from Chicago to Denver, with special cars from St. Louis to Kansas City, there to join the special from Chicago. And as soon as this offer was secured, the committee entered into agreement with the Chicago and Alton-Union Pacific combination to become the official route of the Institute to its Denver meeting. This offer and this agreement served as a wedge which caused the members of the Western Passenger Association to vote similar rates for territory covered by their lines, thus bringing the single fare within the reach of all members residing within what is known as the territory of the Western Passenger Association. After much effort on the part of the committee the co-operation of the Trunk Line Association was secured to the extent that members of this Association were enabled to sell tickets at the rate of one and a third fare for the round trip to St. Louis and Chicago, at which points the one fare rate of the Western Association might be taken advantage of. Later, we were enabled to secure a one fare rate from the Central Traffic Association. Similar rates were secured over the lines form ing the Southern Association. Considering the very unsettled state in which the committee found railroad affairs it felicitates itself and congratulates the Institute upon the favorable rates and special accommodations and courtesies secured. And it believes that it is due the Chicago and AltonUnion Pacific Combination of lines to report that, in so far as the committee has been able to tell, without their hearty co-operation and initial action we would have had very much more difficulty in securing the rates and concessions we have enjoyed than we have had. C. E. FISHER, W. W. VAN BAUN, THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS being next in the Order of Business, its Chairman, Dr. Eugene F. Storke reported verbally the work of his committee and of its subcommittees. Dr. Burnham, the Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Excursions, announced a number of them, which were open to the members of the Institute and their friends at greatly reduced rates of fare. On motion of Dr. E. M. Kellogg the committee was requested to fix certain days for these various trips and report later to the Institute. The report was then formally accepted. THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ORGANIZATION, REGISTRATION AND STATISTICS was read by Dr. Thomas Franklin Smith. After a brief account of the new hospital for the insane in Southern California by Dr. Campbell the report was accepted and referred to the Committee of Publi cation. It is as follows: JUNE 10, 1894. Fellow-Members of the American Institute of Homoeopathy: As we have reached, at this time, the fiftieth milestone in our history, I think that it will be pleasant and perhaps profitable, for us a moment and glance backward over the road that we to pause for have been travelling. The first Bureau of Organization, Registration and Statistics was appointed in 1866, and consisted of Dr. Henry M. Smith, Chairman, with Drs. Horace M. Paine, Edwin A. Lodge, Bushrod W. James and T. Griswold Comstock as his associates. Dr. Smith remained as the Chairman of the Bureau until 1871, doing faithful and efficient work. He was succeeded in that year by Dr. Walter M. Williamson, who filled that position for two years, when Dr. Temple S. Hoyne was appointed to it, and he was succeeded the following year by Dr. Elijah U. Jones. The next year, 1875, Dr. Henry M. Smith was again chosen Chairman of the Bureau, and filled the position for two years, when Dr. I. Tisdale Talbot was appointed his successor, and he continued to serve as Chairman until 1883, having occupied that position for the period of six years. In 1884 Dr. Ambrose S. Everett was chosen Chairman, and served as such but one year, and was succeeded by the present Chairman, who has occupied the position from that time to the present. The first report of the Bureau was made in 1867, at which time it was reported that there were eleven State Homoeopathic medical societies, twenty local Homoeopathic medical societies, nineteen Homœopathic hospitals and dispensaries, six Homœopathic medical colleges, and five Homoeopathic medical journals published in the United States. The State societies were as follows, viz.: The Western Institute of Homœopathy, organized in 1865. in 1855. The Vermont Homœopathic Medical Society, organized in 1854. The Massachusetts Homœopathic Medical Society, organized in 1840. The Connecticut Homoeopathic Medical Society, organized in 1864. The Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of New York, organized in 1850. The Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, organized in 1866. The Michigan Homœopathic Institute, organized in 1860. The Indiana Homœopathic Institute, organized in 1867. The Illinois State Homœopathic Medical Association, organized in 1867. The County and Local Societies consisted of the following, viz. : The Central Homoeopathic Medical Association of Maine, organ ized in 1866. The Boston Academy of Homoeopathic Medicine, organized in 1858. The Bristol County (Mass.) Homoeopathic Medical Society, organized in 1866. The Albany County (N. Y.) Homœopathic Medical Society, organized in 1861. The Cayuga County (N. Y.) Homoeopathic Medical Society, organized in 1859. The Dutchess County (N. Y.) Homoeopathic Medical Society, organized in 1860. The Livingston County (N. Y.) Homœopathic Medical Society, organized in 1857. The Otsego County (N. Y.) Homœopathic Medical Society, organized in 1860. The Steuben County (N. Y.) Homœopathic Medical Society, organized in 1867. The Homœopathic Medical Society of Ulster County, N. Y., organized in 1865. The Hahnemann Academy of Medicine, N. Y. The Central New York Homoeopathic Medical Society, organized in 1866. The Philadelphia County (Pa.) Homœopathic Medical Society, organized in 1866. The Homoeopathic Medical Society of Chester and Delaware Counties (Pa.), organized in 1858. The Cumberland Valley (Pa.) Homoeopathic Medical Society, organized in 1866. The Homœopathic Medical Society of Allegheny County, Pa., organized in 1864. The Hahnemann Society of the Cleveland Homœopathic College, organized in 1867. The Miami Homœopathic Medical Society, Ohio, organized in 1860. The Homœopathic Medical Society of the Seventeenth Congressional District of Ohio, organized in 1860. The Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Medical Association. The following comprised the hospitals and dispensaries at that time, viz. : The Homœopathic Medical Dispensary of Boston, opened in 1864. The Baldwin Place Home for Little Wanderers, Boston, opened in 1865. The Consumptives' Home, Boston, opened in 1864. House of the Angel Guardian, Boston, opened in 1865. The Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) Homœopathic Medical and Surgical Dispensary, opened in 1865. The New York Homœopathic Dispensary, opened in 1860. 1863. |