table. Dr. Jones' motion was lost! The New York Medical Record (June 16), speaking of the refusal to permit an investigation of the Association's finances, says:

"This meeting had promised to be politically more interesting than some of its recent predecessors, for it was rumored that a strenuous effort would be made to dismiss the secretary-editor. So great has become the dissatisfaction with his administration that this endeavor might have been successful had the general body any voice in the management of the Association, but as the society is ruled by the House of Delegates, whose members are appointed. before the meeting each year by the State societies and not by the Association itself, the change of dynasty was not effected. The feeling of opposition among the members was indeed so strong that the retiring president deemed it wise to speak of it, to assure the delegates that everything was as it should be, and to avow that he personally knew nothing of the existence of any inner ring or clique. That assurance was, of course, unnecessary, for if there were an inner circle of 'bosses' such an ephemeral officer as the president would not be likely to be admitted to its councils. Another evidence of the general dissatisfaction with the management of the Association was the resolution presented in the House of Delegates calling for the appointment of a committee to look into the affairs of the treasurer and secretary. Drs. Billings and Simmons must now regret the shortsightedness of their friends, in tabling this resolution, for they will have to be investigated some day and the sooner the disagreeable job is over the better. As Dr. Walker, of Detroit, stated in introducing his resolution, the criticism of the management has been so bitter because the majority of the members do not understand the intricacies of the business of the Association; the object of the proposed investigation was, therefore, to clear the officers of unjust suspicion and to demonstrate to all that they had acted solely in the interests of the Association, as they understood them, uninfluenced by motives of self-seeking. The unwise tabling of these resolutions will defer what the unhappy officers might resent as the indignity of an investigation, but it will, on the other hand, strengthen the suspicion in the minds of many that certain things may have been done which would not bear the light of an investigating committee's report. So far from quieting suspicion this evading the issue will be almost certain to increase it. As the preamble to Dr. Walker's resolution read: 'because of these facts, there has arisen the sentiment which bids fair to become disagreeably large, unless the cause

upon which it feeds be removed, viz., ignorance of the real truth,' but the only way of making the real truth known has been stopped by the friends of the accused. These two officials are now in the unenviable position of serving a body, a large minority, if not the majority, of the members of which look upon them with distrust, yet their foolish friends refuse to permit an investigation which they must surely know is the only means of restoring confidence in their integrity. The opposition to an investigation could not have been on account of the constitution of the committee named in the resolution, for the Association could trust such men as Lydston and Graham, of Chicago, Wiggin, of New York, Cordier, of Kansas City, and Eve, of Nashville, to do their work conscientiously and make a report on the facts as they found them, free from any taint of prejudice or favoritism. For the sake of the Association, as well as of the officers mentioned, it is a great pity this wellintentioned endeavor to get at the truth and make it known was suppressed."

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REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.-Dr. T. J. Happell, of Tennessee, the chairman of the board of trustees, announced the net assets of the Association is nearly $238,000. The income from all sources for the past year had been about $275,000. The total expenses for the year had been approximately $250,000, leaving a net annual income of about $25,000, in round numbers.-N. Y. Med. Journal.

THE SECRETARY'S REPORT. - Dr. George H. Simmons read his report as secretary of the Association, in which he announced that there had been a most satisfactory gain in the number of the membership. During the year 4351 new members had been enrolled, making the total membership 23,636. The prospects for further gains of membership in the immediate future. were most encouraging, as the work of organization of the profession was proceeding very satisfactorily.-N. Y. Med. Journal.

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AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWs.— One amendment, proposed two years ago and adopted last year, was modified so as to make it possible for the board of trustees, by a unanimous vote, to change the place of meeting determined upon by the House of Delegates if it seemed advisable because satisfactory arrangements for transportation or accommodation could not be secured, provided the change was made at least four months before the time selected for the meeting.-Journal A. M. A.

THE ATTENDANCE AT BOSTON was unprecedented in numbers. There were registered "about 4700." This, of a membership of 23,636 (see report), is about 19 per cent, and of the physicians of America (about 120,000), it is less than 4 per cent!

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STRICT RULES were enforced to admit none but members wearing badges. Outsiders, however numerous and respectable, were not admitted to the scientific body or sections, and, of course, not to House of Delegates and festivities. See official reports. Another method of driving them in.

DR. JOSEPH D. BRYANT, NEW YORK, President-elect American Medical Association, 1906-7. Dr. Bryant is Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery, Operative and Clinical Surgery in the University and Bellevue Medical College; Consulting Surgeon to the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled; Visiting Surgeon to Bellevue and St. Vincent Hospitals; author of Bryant's System of Surgery, etc.

DR. G. B. FosCUE, WACO, TEXAS.
President Texas State Medical Association.

Dr. Foscue was born near Jefferson, Texas, June 21, 1860. He received his literary education at the Kellyville Academy. Graduated in medicine at Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y. 1883; located at Callisburg, Cooke county, Texas, same year, and moved to Waco in July, 1884, where he has resided since. Was married to Miss Sallie E. Rowell, of Jefferson, in 1886. Is a member of several local and district societies and of the State and Na

tional Medical Associations since beginning the practice of medicine. He has done much post graduate work and has held several positions of honor in the various medical societies. During the Spanish war Dr. Foscue was appointed by the Surgeon General of the United States army to serve on a board to examine medical officers for the army. Elected councilor for the Twelfth District at the Austin meeting of the State Association in April, 1904, and President without opposition at Fort Worth meeting in April, 1906.

DR. W. J. MAYO, ROCHESTER, MINN. President American Medical Association 1905-6 (Retiring). (Alumnus of Medical Department University of Michigan, Class 1883.)

"Society appreciates the saving of a sick person's life by the skilled physician, but fails to see the priceless gifts to the human race made by preventive medicine and sanitary science. It views everything in detail, and misses the perspective. We have failed to