Messrs. Gladding & Coates, signs and let'ng window shades H. D. Watson, window shades and fixtures.. F. N. Sill, half ton of coal 5 00 500 5 00 5 00 00 5 00 3 00 50 00 20 00 10 00 10.00 4 00 5 85 2.00 6.00 H. M. Paine, envelopes and postage. A. McClure, mortar, scales, alcohol Van Heusen & Charles, bowl, pitcher, etc..... Dr. E. A. Lodge, one copy Hale's New Remedies E. W. Keyes, blank books Expenditures. Cleaning rooms, 39 Green street $4.00 4.00 3 00 1 50 3 00 8 00 6 00 8.00 10 00 4 00 8.00 Painting rooms, 39 Green street 15 00 6 25 Certificate of Association of the "Albany City Dispensary Association," in pursuance of title vii, chapter xviii, part I, of the Revised Statutes of the State of New York. We, whose names are hereto subscribed, being citizens of the State of New York and of the United States, do hereby certify that we have associated together as a society for benevolent and charitable purposes, to be designated and known as "The Albany City Dispensary Association." That the object and business of said Association shall be and is the establishment, carrying on and conducting a Homœopathic Dispensary in said city, for the furnishing of medicines and medical attendance, under homoeopathical treatment, to persons who are unable to pay for the same. That the number of trustees, directors or managers to manage the same shall be seven, constituting a Board of Trustees, and of whom four shall be other than physicians, and three of whom shall be homoeopathic physicians. That William Lacy, Stephen A. Stratton, Emerson W. Keyes, ; Samuel Moffatt, James W. Cox, E. Darwin Jones and Horace M. Paine shall be the trustees, directors and managers of such society or association for the first year of its existence, and the officers of said Board of Trustees shall consist of and be a President, one Vice-President, one Treasurer and one Secretary. As witness our hand of said city of Albany this 23d day of December, A. D. 1867. (Signed) WILLIAM LACY. S. A. STRATTON. STATE OF NEW YORK, City and County of Albany. SS. On the seventeenth day of March, A. D. 1868, personally appeared before me William Lacy, Stephen A. Stratton, James W. Cox, E. Darwin Jones, Horace M. Paine, L. M. Pratt and W. H. Randel, and on the eighteenth day of March, A. D. 1868, personally appeared before me Emerson W. Keyes, Samuel Moffatt and Frederick G. Tucker, known to me to be the several persons named and who subscribed the foregoing and annexed certificate, and severally, each for himself, acknowledged that he executed said certificate for the purpose therein named. (Signed) J. B. STURTEVANT, Notary Public, City of Albany. Certificate of R. W. Peckham, Esq., one of the Justices of the Supreme Court. I consent to and approve of the filing of the within certificate as directed in and by the statute in such case made and provided. ALBANY, March 23, 1868. Filed March 23, 1868. (Signed) R. W. PECKHAM. ARTICLE CXVII. Circular addressed to the Homoeopathic Medical Profession of the State of New York. By the Secretaries of the State Medical Society-H. M. PAINE, M. D., 104 State street, Albany, Albany county, N. Y., Recording Secretary; E. DARWIN JONES, M. D., 140 State street, Albany, N. Y., Corresponding Secretary. The object designed to be accomplished in the formation of the State Medical Society is, as stated in article first of the constitution, the "advancement of medical science." To render this purpose practically effective, advantage is taken of the eight judicial districts into which the State is divided, by appointing one local committee in each district. These committees are appointed annually; are expected to act as chairmen in their respective districts, and to report regularly on materia medica, epidemics, clinical medicine and medical statistics. The duties devolving upon these committees, about thirty in number, are stated in the following quotation from the by-laws : "All committees on subjects relating to the advancement of medical science, shall be appointed for one year, and until their successors shall have been appointed, they shall be deemed to have the various matters referred to them constantly under consideration; and it is hereby made their duty to report at each. annual or semi-annual meeting of the Society." I. COMMITTEES ON MATERIA MEDICA. The committees on materia medica are expected to take a deep interest in the work committed to their charge, and to extend to the Society and the cause their active co-operation. In their correspondence with the physicians in their respective districts, they should Set forth the importance of united effort, aud point out the mutual benefits resulting from such labor; Urge all to engage personally in the work; and Collect, arrange and present the returns made to them for publication in the Transactions of the Society. In this department every physician has an opportunity directly and permanently to promote the advancement of medical science.. While pathological research is essential to a correct knowledge of disease, accurate, careful and systematic trials of drugs are equally necessary to effect its removal. Every member of the profession, or nearly every one, can annually furnish the Society with a proving, either upon himself or some other person. The importance of this labor cannot be over-estimated. It is very clearly set forth in two articles published in the third volume of Transactions, entitled, "Importance of an extensive and uniform system of drug proving," page 141, and "Enlargement of the materia medica," page 164. It is very desirable that a large number of physicians in the State should engage in the work, and that provings be confined, until finished, to one drug only. II. COMMITTEES ON EPIDEMICS. The committees on epidemics are composed in a similar manner, and have similar duties to perform. They present to the profession in all parts of the State a convenient opportunity to report, through the chairman of the several district committees, the results of the most approved treatment of the various epidemics that may have prevailed in their respective localities. The annual publicacation of full reports from each district will serve to collect and, render readily accessible the result of a vast amount of experience, and thus prove of incalculable benefit to humanity and the profession. Any light that may be thrown upon the pathology and treatment of zymotic diseases, will prove of practical importance. The report should embrace, as fully as may be practicable, reliable statistical information. III. COMMITTEES ON CORRESPONDENCE, OR CLINICAL MEDICINE. It is very desirable that clinical reports, consisting of records of cases homopathically treated, be prepared and presented at the meetings of the Society. With this end in view, committees on correspondence or clinical medicine have been appointed. It is therefore the duty of the several district committees to collect all communications relating to any department of medical science, except materia medica and prevailing epidemics, which are assigned to special committees, and arrange them for presentation at the meetings of the Society, and prepare them for publication in the Transactions. In this department ample opportunity is afforded for enhancing the practical value of the Society. Let |