It was founded in June, 1888. The idea of its founders was to open its doors to every railway surgeon in the United States. and the Canadas, and it soon grew into a very large body. At the meeting held at Galveston, Texas, May, 1894, the enrolled. membership exceeded 1,700 names, and there were nearly 1,000 persons in attendance at the session. Some there thought that the body was too large and unwieldy, and that that period was perhaps the maximum of its growth. It has not increased since. then.

The scope of the work of this society is very broad, covering the entire field of railway surgery, and it aims to interest and associate every railway surgeon. It has held annual meetings in May of each year. It has made large contributions to the literature of railway surgery, and has published a journal which was for all the earlier years, under the editorship of Prof. R. Harvey Reed, then the treasurer of the organization.

Perhaps the most active and influential man in this body is and has been Wm. B. Outten, M. D., Chief Surgeon of the Missouri Pacific Railway System of St. Louis, Mo. He was President for one term, and on the retirement of R. Harvey Reed, M. D., became the editor of the journal, now called the "Railway Surgeon," a position which he held until recently.

The officers for the current year are as follows: President, A. I. Bouffleur, Chicago; Treasurer, E. R. Lewis, Kansas City, Mo.; Secretary, Louis J. Mitchell, Chicago.

In some of the states, state organizations of Railway Surgeons have been organized and still flouish.

The New York State Association of Railway Surgeons is perhaps, the most prominent of these organizations. (State organizations and officers omitted.)

The following Certified Examiners for entrance to Ohio medical colleges have been reappointed by the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination for the current year, viz. : Professor E. W. Coy, principal of the Hughes High School, Cincinnati; Professor E. E. Harris, principal of the Central High School, Cleveland; Professor H. J. Ebright, principal of Central High School, Toledo; and Professor Chas. E. Albright, principal of Central High School, Columbus. The time for the fall examination of candidates has been set for September 27-28, 1901.

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President Dr. A. Timberman in the Chair, and Dr. A. M. Steinfeld, Secretary. Miss Helen Davis, Stenographer.

Present were Drs. Upham, Clark, Frame, J. C. Lawrence, Hatton, C. M. Taylor, Nash, Davenport, Cooper, Carter, McClure, Barnhill, Ida M. Wilson, Bonnet, Ross, Kinsell, Warner, Rauschkolb, Harris, H. Hendrixson, C. S. Means, Blake, Linhart, Combs, S. B. Taylor, Winders, E. F. Wilson, Coleman, President and Secretary.

Dr C. M. Taylor read a paper on

DIAGNOSIS OF PELVIC DISEASES.*
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DISCUSSION.

Dr. Barnhill: Dr. Taylor has presented very clearly the leading symptoms of inflammatory diseases of the pelvis. A point of differential diagnosis might be noted in reference to cervicitis which may be mistaken for congenital ectropion of the cervix. Infantile ectropion is often marked with a fissure resembling laceration. Ectropion can be diagnosticated by the presence of ciliated epithelium and racemose glands covering a considerable zone over the cervix and by the absence of cicatricial tissue. The fissure in congenital ectropion is soft, while cica

* Read before the Columbus Academy of Medicine, December 3, 1900. Published on page 1 of this journal.