And now a few words as to the personelle of the meeting. In looking over the large attendance through the three days, I can at this time only call to mind those that impressed with their work and deeds. First there was Crook-father and son, and the rest of the Committee of Arrangements, J. T. Jones, an "old Reb," and Herron-their courtesies, their kindness can never be forgotten. Then there was the "Old Guard," headed by Cowan, the old war horse of Tullahoma, who has so often electrified the State society as well as other audiences, by his grandilopuent eloquence; Nowlin, of Shelbyville; Cain, of Nashville-whom it is always "dangerous to raise" even in this day of "Cuba Libre;" Clary, of Bellbuckle; Murfree, of the charming little city once the capital of this State to which city his ancestors gave name; McSwain, of Paris; our President, Powell, whom only to know is to love; and the younger members such as Sebastian, Porter, and Rochelle, of West Tennessee, and such men as Savage, once an integral factor of Jackson ideas and Jacksonian success, Bilbro, Douglas, Witherspoon, Sullivan, Altman, Macon, Graddy and others of the middle division of the State; Miller, Gallion, who succeeds the former Vice President from East Tennessee, and our most excellent, most faithful watch-dog of the Treasury-one of the most efficient officers the State society has ever had, and who was envied by this "old Benedictine" by the marked attention he received from the hands and eyes of Jacksonian beauty and purity-how could he keep away from their lips?-may be he will get there some day, old Bach as he is-I wish him no better luck— for when excellence and integrity meets purity and beauty, surely they are not incompatible. Yes, these are a few who impressed me by their presence and their work, yet I must not leave out the stately Maury, the gifted Krauss and the handsome Jelks of the Bluff City-Why was Memphis sulking in her tent? Surely with the honors given to her doctors by the State Society, they should have put in a more numerous attendance—a better could not have been sent. But that Montgomery Park lay between Jackson and Memphis is a rational reason why one of its ex-Presidents could not "get away"--but there are others in this city on the Chickasaw Bluffs that I would have been most pleased to have met and was greatly disappointed at not doing so. Another regret that I cannot at this time well leave out of imperishable printers' ink, is that the representative journal of West Tennessee, the Memphis Medical Monthly, whose great editor, now dead, was honored by the presidency of this society, and whose bones must have wrestled and struggled in his honored grave when the April number of the journal which he did so much to upbuild had not a line in notice of this ever to be memorable meeting. Neely, who at one time had connection with that journal honored me with his "glad hand." But McKinney, I await your reply in behalf of yourself and your associates.

And now in conclusion, I must ask the privilege of paying a just tribute to the excellent young Secretary of the society-Will Haggard is certainly making a name for himself-outside of the

most erudite and experienced father; he is now known State as one of the most progressive surgeons of his day. I we will let the fair dames of Jackson and their daughters stion; active, energetic, quick, ready, a most fluent speaker icient Secretary of the State Society. To him, and his eorge Malsbary, of Cincinnati, who is the official stenTennessee State Medical Society, I know the members any and lasting obligations for the 65th annual meeting ings.

ilar time, the afternoon of the 2d day, Wednesday, April ing officers were elected: President, T. H. Marable, of st Vice President, W. C. Bilbro, of Murfreesboro; Second T. C. Gallion, of Dandridge; Third Vice President, V. lston. As a matter of course Drs. Haggard and Nelson to the positions of Secretary and Treasurer.

› ANNUAL MEETING of the Western Ophthalmologic and Association was held in Chicago, April 7th and 8th, 1898. welcome was made by Dr. F. Henrotin, President of the l Society, who, in a felicitous speech, extended to the ospitalities of the City of Chicago. Dr. A. Alt, of St. ponded for the association. The annual address was then esident, Dr. B. E. Fryer, of Kansas City, Mo. After the business had been concluded, a scientific communication y Dr. Herman Knapp, of New York City.

almologic and Otolaryngologic sections each held five joint sessions, many articles of interest being read and last joint session was occupied with the exhibition of

ittee of Arrangements, of which Dr. J. B. Colburn, of airman, was unremitting in its attention to the guests, spared that would contribute to the entertainment of the day evening the members were invited to the hall of the c Club, where a special program had been arranged for nt of the members.

ng officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, olburn, of Chicago; First Vice President, Dr. W: SchepOrleans; Second Vice President, Dr. Casey A. Wood, of Vice President, Dr. H. Gifford, of Omaha, Neb.; TreasDayton, of Lincoln, Neb.; Secretary, Dr. F. Rumbold, of

s was unanimously selected for the next meeting, which just before the Mardi Gras of 1899, thus allowing the clude their scientific session with the gaities of the carni"Hot time in the old town" may be on hand at that ear. Somebody may have to "walk Spanish."

ON TO DENVER-"THE A. M. A."

Notwithstanding "wars' dread alarum" and the resonance of the "spirit stirring drum and the ear piercing fife" together with the tread of marshaled hosts throughout the land, awakening echoes that ceased to reverberate one-third of a century ago, the many attractions offered by the "mighty West" with her grand plains, majestic mountains and wonderful canyons, at this writing from taking a careful survey of the whole ground, we have every reason to expect an unusual attendance in the grand capital of Colorado, "so far away and yet so near" on the occasion of the 51st regular meeting of the representative medical organization of America, June 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th. In this day of rapid transit, what was but a generation ago considered a more arduous pilgrimage than a trip to the Klondike, is now a brief, pleasant and most entrancing run of but little over 48 hours, at the end of which the only tax upon physical and vital forces will be the delightful but temporary fatigue of eye and mind by the many objects of more than passing interest en route.

The Committee of Arrangements announces that preparations for the coming meeting are well advanced. A large number of prominent men have signified their intention to be present and read papers, and an excellent scientific program is assured. The indications all point to a large and successful meeting.

Convenient and ample accommodations have been secured for the general sessions, section work, registration and exhibits.

The entertainment of members and their families is being planned on an elaborate scale and the committee promises all who may come a most enjoyable time.

The Western Passenger Association has granted a rate to Denver and return of one-half fare, plus two dollars, thirty-day limit, for business from Chicago, St. Louis and intermediate points. Tickets on sale June 2, 4 and 5, east of the Missouri River; June 5 and 6, west of the Missouri River. Application for similar rates has now been made to all other passenger associations and railroads not controlled by them.

From a communication signed by some of the most reputable and representative medical men of Denver in a recent number of the Pennsylvania Medical Journal we make the following extracts:

"It is the desire of the physicians of Colorado that the coming meeting shall be attended by a larger number of doctors than have ever before been present at any annual meeting. We want every doctor who is honored by appointment by his local society to come; we want every man who has ever been in attendance upon any previous meeting to be sure and attend the Denver meeting; we want every man who comes to bring his wife with him, if he has a wife; and if he has none now, the opportunity will be a fitting one to get a wife and bring her along to Denver on a wedding tour.

You ought to come to the Denver meeting in order that you may combine professional advancement with a trip that is a real sight-seeing and vacation trip; we want you to come and have ever afterward the

having been present at the largest and best meeting of the cal Association that bas yet been held; you ought to come you may meet men from all sections of the country, and our views of America, of American citizenship and of ments in medicine. You ought to come in order that you n those professional friends of other days, who left their rder to regain health and strength in the most wonderful world; you ought to come in order to meet many of your , who would have been dead ere this had they remained d climate; you ought to come in order to learn for yourd of a climate can be found on the eastern slopes of the o may profit thereby.

ou all to come and see that our State is as civilized as any nat Denver is as cosmopolitan a city as New York itself. rides out to our suburbs on any of the many electric lines, range rises to view on the western horizon, and you will one hundred and fifty miles of mountains, from Pike's ath to Long's Peak on the north, with Gray, Evans, Evero others, all over fourteen thousand feet high, all in view w-capped in midsummer.

are in Denver you will be one mile above sea level, with ind you of the unusual elevation except the dryness and atmosphere and a sense of exhilaration that renders every t and every act a pleasure.

ers fifty square miles, and has more than 160,000 inhabian easy city to become acquainted with, and the stranger lost; true western courtesy and interest will be found to citizens, and the stranger may go about and see everything ing without a guide being necessary. For these reasons, e social entertainments that will be provided, the wives gates will enjoy the Denver meeting.

ends who have never seen mountains more than a thousand and see whole ranges of them covered with snow in midwho have had your dreams of seeing the Alps some day, the dream ever receding as the years have sped by, come meeting in June, 1898, and see the American Alps; they d and as impressive as the Swiss Alps, and they are yours ommon birthright of every American citizen.

fraid that in coming to Denver you will have any trouble commodations for yourself and your family. There are -class hotels in Denver than in any other city of its popurld; their rates are low, and will not be advanced in order rs. Denver is bigger than Atlanta or Newport or Louise association has met in recent years. We have enternial conclave of Knights Templars, and hundreds of other thin the last five years; they all found plentiful and satisodations, and the delegates went forth over the whole land ise of Denver as a convention city.

The meeting places for the general sessions and for the sections will all be most commodious and located within an area of a few blocks in the heart of the city, and all not more than ten blocks from the union station. Make up your mind to come to Denver, and after the meeting is over to see Colorado Springs, ascend Pike's Peak, visit the Garden of the Gods, and then see closely the wonders of the Rocky Mountain region.

We want to emphasize all these things. But we don't forget that the association is essentially a scientific body, brought together in annual session for serious, scientific work. It is our purpose to have every leader of American medicine present at this meeting. We want you all to see and hear and meet them; Senn and Keen, Marcy and McBurney, White and Park, Murphy and Osler and the hundreds of others that are known to you by their writings; we want you to meet them personally and get to know and like each other socially as you have known each other by reputation."

This warm, hearty, and sincere invitation of our brethren in Denver, is so far in advance of anything that we could offer, and should prove far more attractive, that we are gratified indeed to submit it to our readers.

The following is a list of delegates appointed at the last meeting of the Tennessee State Medical Society, and although some will be prevented by the inexorable duties of an exacting profession from making use of this opportunity of a life time, we hope sincerely to meet many of our confreres of the Volunteer State while there:

Drs. Richard Douglas, J. S. Cain, W. D. Haggard, Sr., W. D. Haggard, Jr., G. H. Price, D. Eve, G. C. Savage, L. B. Graddy, C. R. Atchison, C. S. Briggs, T. K. Powell, M. M. Smith, W. C. Bilbro, V. A. Biggs, J. A. and J. L. Crook, I. A. McSwain, J. C. Paris, E. A. Neely, J. B. Cowan, J. L. Hutchinson, J. T. Altman, J. A. Richardson, C. C. Sullivan, G. B. Thornton, S. R. Miller, J. B. Williams, A. L. Macon, H. J. Miller, R. B. Maury, E. W. Riding, R. J. McFall, M. W. Ellis, W. B. Rodgers, D. D. Saunders, E. C. Ellett, W. F. Clary, G. B. Gillespie, W. K. Sheddan, T. J. Happel, J. T. Jones, J. T. Herron, D. E. Nelson, Wm. Krauss, L. A. Yarbrough, T. W. Gallion, J. A. Harris, F. J. Runyon, J. M. Clack, and the editor of this journal.

MEDICAL EXCURSION IN JUNE-Denver to Salt Lake-The Medical Excursion in June will leave Denver for Salt Lake City-the Zion of the new world on the last day of the meeting and the two successive days via the Rio Grande Western Railway in connection with the Denver & Rio Grande and Colorado Midland lines. The rate will be but $18.00 for round trip, offering a trip of 1,500 miles through the Rocky and Wasatch Mountains. No European trip of equal length can compare with it in grandeur or wealth of novel interest. Salt Lake City and vicinity is one grand sanitarium. The Great Salt Lake or Dead Sea of America with its magnificent bathing resort, the Hot and Warm Springs, drives, parks, canyons and reserves are all located in or about the city. Send 2 cents to F, A. Wadleigh, Salt Lake City, for copy of pamphlet,