cases, 4; medical students in attendance, 5; Guild nurses in attendance, 5; patients, 8; visits by attending obstetrician, 4; visits by students, 36; visits by nurses, 54; total number of visits for this department, 94.

Visits of Guild Nurses (all departments): Number of visits with nursing treatment, 1,549; for professional supervisions of convalescents, 307; total number of visits, 1,856. Cases reported to the Guild by five health physicians, and forty-seven other physicians. Graduate nurses seven, and pupil nurses eleven on duty. Dispensary Report.-Number of clinics tients, 118; number of old patients, 409. Surgical, 13; nose and throat, 6; eye and ear, 15; lung, 17; nervous, I; skin and G. U., 8; stomach, 3; medical, 10; children, 11; gynecological, 9.

held, 96; number of new paClassification of clinics held:

THE UNION COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK.-On Thursday, February 10, 1910, the twenty-second annual meeting of the association was held at the Ten Eyck Hotel, Albany, N. Y., followed by a banquet where it was announced by Dr. Alexander of New York, that $30,000 had been pledged for a gymnasium. The attendance was large.

THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS will hold its twenty-fifth meeting in the New Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C., May 3rd and 4th, 1910, under the presidency of Dr. Henry Hun. An interesting and attractive program will be presented.

THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK held its one hundred and fourth annual meeting on January 25th and 26th, 1910, in the City Hall, Albany, N. Y. The following papers were presented: "The Wasserman Reaction in Leprosy," by Howard Fox, New York; “SplenoMedullary Leukemia, its Treatment by Roentgen Therapy, with Report of a Case," Homer E. Smith, Norwich and L. A. Van Wagner, Sherburne; "The Diagnostic Value of Eosinophilla," Ira S. Wile, New York; "Some remarks on Anaemia," Charles O. Boswell, Rochester; "The United States Pharmacopoeia, Its Present Status and the Coming Revision," Eli H. Long, Buffalo; "Elements of Prognosis in Valvular Diseases of the Heart," R. Abrahams, New York; "Dilatation of the Heart," Wesley T. Mulligan, Rochester. "The Clinical Significance of Subfebril Temperature in Pulmonary Tuberculosis,” Arthur T. Laird, Albany; "A Contribution to the Study of Tremors," N. Neustaedter, New York; "Lumbar Puncture as a Diagnostic and Therapeutic Agent in General Practice," Nelson G. Russel, Buffalo; "Experimental Poliomyelitis and its Bearing upon Epidemic Poliomyelitis," Simon Flexner, New York, and Paul A. Lewis, New York; "Adequacy of the Present Day Treatment of Syphilis Tested by the Occurrence of Syphilitic Nervous Diseases," Joseph Collins, New York; "Effects of Alcohol as Observed in Dermatology," L. Duncan Bulkley, New York; "Tuberculosis of the Bones and Joints," Leonard W. Ely, New York; "Metabolism, its Relation to Bone and Joint Changes," William H. Porter, New York; “The Joint Changes as Related to the System Diseases of the Cork," Bernard Sachs, New York; "The

Rheumatisms, their Etiology and Pathology," Egbert Le Fevre, New York; "Osteitis Deformans, (Paget's Disease) with Report of Two Cases," Henry L. Elsner, Syracuse; "Lantern Slide Demonstration of X-Ray Pictures of Osteitis Deformans and Stomach and Intestinal Diseases," Clarence E. Coon, Syracuse; "Pellagra," Past Assistant Surgeon C. H. Lavinder, Marine Hospital Service; "The Relationship between the State Board of Regents and Training Schools," Joseph Merzbach, Brooklyn; "Some Unsolved Problems in Relation to Nurses' Training School," Charles Stover, Amsterdam; "Test Meal and Feces Examinations; Some New Methods and Their Clinical Value," Anthony Bassler, New York; "Complications of Typhoid Fever Requiring Surgical Treatment," J. B. Harvie, Troy; "The Importance of Care in Closing the Abdominal Incision," Le Roy Broun, New York; "The Chauffeur's Fracture," William S. Thomas, New York; "Shall All Fibroid Tumors of the Uterus be Removed with the Knife?" Frank De Witt Reese, Cortland; "A Case of Human Glanders Treated by an Autogenious Vaccine with Recovery," A. T. Bristow, Brooklyn and Benjamin Whie, Hoagland Laboratory, Brooklyn; "Treatment of Surgical Tuberculosis by Vaccines," James A. McLeod, Buffalo; "Vaccine Treatment of Surgical Tuberculosis," Lewis L. McArthur, Chicago, Ill.; “Vaccine Therapy," Frank Billings, Chicago, Ill.; "The Palliative Treatment of Cancer of the Uterus," Walter B. Chase, Brooklyn; "Treatment of Potts Disease," Brainerd Hunt Whitbeck, New York; "Surgical Consideration of Acute Diffuse Phlegmonous Gastritis," Richard Ward Westbrook, Brooklyn; "Appendicitis in Children," Charles M. Dowd, New York; "Masked Appendicitis," George E. Brewer, New York; "Conditions Simulating Appendicitis," A. B. Johnson, New York; "When to operate in Appendicitis," Joseph A. Blake, New York; "Deductions to be made from 1,000 Hospital Cases," Clarence A. McWilliams, New York; "Appendicitis," Roswell Park, Buffalo. The annual banquet was held at the Hotel Ten Eyck, Wednesday evening, January 26th, at 8:00 p. m.

THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE COUNTY OF SCHENECTADY held a regular meeting at the County Court House, Wednesday, February 16, 1910. Dr. Donald Guthrie, Wilkesbarre, Pa., read a paper on "The Differential Diagnosis of Gall Bladder Disease. Ulcer and Cancer of the Stomach."

MEDICAL REVIEW OF REVIEWS.-Beginning with the January, 1910, issue, the old established Medical Review of Reviews will be edited by Dr. William J. Robinson, editor and founder of the famous Critic and Guide, Therapeutic Medicine, and The American Journal of Urology. The editorial offices of the Medical Review of Reviews have been removed to 12 Mt. Morris Park, W., New York City, The scope of the journal will be enlarged and every department will be strengthened. The subscription price remains the same, namely. $2.00 per annum.

MATTEAWAN STATE HOSPITAL-The fiftieth annual report of the medical superintendent, Dr. Robert B. Lamb (A. M. C. '91), of the Matteawan State Hospital, contains a complete statement for the year ending September 30, 1909, also a number of carefully prepared tables.

HOSPITAL NOTES.-The Albany Hospital is now engaged in the collection of $75,000 for the erection of an up-to-date Tuberculosis Hospital to absorb Dr. Van Rensselaer's Red Cross Camp. All subscriptions are to be sent to Mr. Dudley Olcott.

St. Peter's Hospital is engaged in a financial campaign to remove the debt of $100.000 recently incurred by the construction of a new addition.

UNITED STATES PHARMACOPOEIAL CONVENTION.-At a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the United States Pharmacopoeial Convention held at Columbus, Ohio, January 28th and 29th, 1910, it was resolved, five members of the Board of Trustees assenting thereto, to submit to the next meeting of the United States Pharmacopoeial Convention (Incorporated) the following propositions to amend the Constitution of the Convention in the following particulars:

I. To amend Section 2. Article II, relating to membership. by inserting after the title "the Surgeon-General of the United States Marine Hospital Service," the following: "the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, the Association of State and National Food and Dairy Department, the National Wholesale Druggists' Association and the National Dental Association."

II. Also to amend said Section 2, Article II, by changing the words "three delegates" in line eleven (page seven of the reprint of the Constitution and By-Laws of 1909) to "one delegate;" the effect of this change being to reduce the representation of each organized body and department to one delegate each.

III. Also to amend Article IV, concerning "Committees and Trustees," by changing the title "Committee of Revision," to that of "General Committee of Revision." (Ibid. last line.)

The Constitution does not require notice to be given of proposed changes in the By-Laws of the Convention, but to make clear the purpose of the change proposed in the present title of the Committee of Revision, it is hereby announced that the Board of Trustees will submit to the Convention propositions to amend the By-Laws as follows: to increase the number of members on the Committee of Revision, hereafter to be known as the "General Committee of Revision" from twenty-five to fifty, said General Committee of Revision to create from its own membership an Executive Committee of Revision of fifteen members, to have immediate charge of the work of revision, and also giving to said General Committee of Revision certain advisory and supervisory powers over the work of the Executive Committee of Revision.

The delegates from the Albany Medical College were, Howard Van Rensselaer, Spencer Lyman Dawes, Victor Ceryl Myers, and from the Albany School of Pharmacy, Willis G. Tucker, Alfred B. Huested, Theodore J. Bradley. Alternate, Harry B. Mason.

PERSONALS.-Dr. GEORGE EVERETT BEILBY (A. M. C. '99) after recuperating from a severe attack of typhoid fever in Augusta, Georgia, is now at home.

-Dr. HARRY RULISON (A. M. C. '05), of Albany, will sail with his family for a year of study on the continent, April 5, 1910. Both he and Dr. Faber will devote their time to the study of diseases of children. -Dr. JOHN PETER FABER (A. M. C. '05) of Scotia, N. Y., will sail on the steamship New Amsterdam, for Europe on April 5, 1910.

-Dr. WILLIAM ARTHUR BING (A. M. C. '09) has been appointed assistant bacteriologist and is located at the Albany Laboratory.

-Dr. EDGAR A. VANDER VEER (A. M. C. '98) and Dr. JAMES N. VANDER VEER (A. M. C. '03) entertained at luncheon, January 26, 1910, at 28 Eagle street, for visiting members of the New York State Medical Society.

MARRIED.-Dr. HUGH M. Cox (A. M. C. '02) and Miss Margaret Adelaide Kuhn were married January 24, 1910, in New York City.

DIED. Dr. O. C. ALEXANDER (A. M. C. '54) died at his home in Albany, N. Y., February 9, 1910, aged 80.

-Dr. JOHN CIPPERLY (A. M. C. '56) died at Middle Falls, N. Y., February 7, 1910.

-Dr. ALVIN H. ECCLESTON (A. M. C. '80) died at his home, January 23, from shock and cerebral hemorrhage, following an automobile accident, January 22nd, aged 51.

In Memoriam

ALVIN H. ECCLESTON, M. D.

Dr. Alvin H. Eccleston, of the class of 1880 of the Albany Medical College, died as the result of an automobile accident at his home in Providence, R. I., Sunday evening, January 23, 1910. To the Providence Daily Journal the ANNALS is indebted for the following account of the disaster which resulted in Dr. Eccleston's death, and for the outline of his career. This is the second calamity of this kind to be recorded by the ANNALS within a few months, Dr. Pierson C. Curtis, of the class of 1884, having been killed on September 5th last in a collision between his automobile and a suburban electric train.

Dr. Alvin H. Eccleston, one of the most prominent surgeons in Rhode Island, died at his home, 642 Broad street, at 11:50 January 23d, of shock and the bursting of a blood vessel in his brain. These conditions were brought about, it is believed, when an electric car struck the rope connecting Dr. Eccleston's automobile, in which he was seated, and another machine, which was towing it, Saturday evening.

The accident occurred on Westminster street, near Dean street. At the time it was thought no one had been injured, as the rope was soon repaired and the journey to Dr. Eccleston's home continued. The physician, however, was in a dazed condition when he reached home and had to be assisted into the house. He did not speak during the night, and at three o'clock yesterday morning lapsed into complete unconsciousness.