COMPOSITION.-Write between three hundred and five hundred words on one of the following subjects, using care as to forms and punctuation: (1) Trusts and their Influences. (2) The Medical Profession. (3) The situation in Russia.

PHYSICS. (Strike out any two questions. Pin this paper to the sheets of your replies.)-1. Compare the English and metric units of length, volume and mass. What is meant by C. G. S. units? 2. Deduce, or develop the formula for space passed over in t seconds of time by a body starting from rest and moving with a uniform acceleration. 3. Write the formula for time of vibration of a pendulum, and state the law for time with respect to varying length. 4. State the mechanical advantage of the inclined plane when the force, or effort, is applied parallel to the face of the plane. 5. What is the difference between capillarity and osmose? 6. (a) Distinguish between the quantity of heat in a body and its temperature. (b) Name the unit for measuring each. (c) Define unit quantity of heat. 7. (a) What is meant by the Specific heat of a substance? (b) How may it be found? 8. (a) At what point is the zero in the Centigrade, Fahrenheit and Absolute scales? (b) How reduce Fahrenheit to Centigrade reading? 9. What is the process in distillation? 10. Considering the transferrence of heat: (a) What are convection currents? (b) How are they produced? 11. What is the fundamental principle employed in the telephone? 12. State the apparatus and method employed in "X Ray" photography.

ZOOLOGY. (Strike out any three questions. Pin this paper to the sheets of your written replies.)-1. Give the general characteristics of Protozoa. Discuss functions and life history of one type. 2. Give the general characteristics of Cestoda, or Tape worms. Discuss the habits and reproduction of Taenio solium, or tape worm found in man. 3. Discuss habits of Lumbricus, or earth worm. Describe the nervous, alimentary, and reproductive systems. Use diagram of transverse section. 4. Give a general discussion of Crustacea, using in particular the Crawfish. Give mode of life, and short descriptions of appendages, muscular, nervous, respiratory, alimentary and reproductive systems. 5. Discuss class Insecta. In particular give habits and external features of Apis melli

fica, or hive bee. 6. Diagram and explain the metamorphoses of insects. 7. Give a clear, concise description of the structure and development of Vertebrates. Include skin, skeleton, and development of notochord and brain. 8. Explain the circulatory system of Vertebrates. 9. Discuss fully the functions, habits and life history of fishes. 10. Discuss the life history of the frog, through each change. Describe the respiratory systems in tadpole and adult form. 11. Explain fully control through the sympathetic nervous system. 12. Discuss the modification of functions due to environment. 13. Show the effect of environment on modification of species.

LITERATURE.-1. Assign a place to Shakespeare in English literature as to, (1) time he lived, (2) greatness of his works, (3) influence. 2. Write between one hundred and two hundred words on the novels of Sir Walter Scott. 3. James Fennimore Cooper is sometimes called "the American Scott." State your opinion of the fitness of this title. 4. Name one work each of the following: John Milton, John Bunyan, Alexander Pope, Oliver Goldsmith, Lord Byron, Thomas Macauley, Alfred Tennyson, Charles Dickens, Washington Irv ing, James Lowell, Nathaniel Hawthorne and John Whittier. 5. Name four living writers with whom one ought in a general way to be familiar. Briefly speak of a work of any one of these which you think will earn a permanent place in our literature. 6. What influence have the best magazines had upon our literature? 7. Name the authors of at least two of the following quotations:

(a) "The quality of mercy is not strain'd,

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd;
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes:"
(b) "Breathes there a man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,

This is my own, my native land!"

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(c) ** that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

COLUMBUS ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.

Regular Meeting, September 3, 1906.

JAMES U. BARNHILL, Pres.

CHARLES J. SHEPARD, Sec'y. The following members were present: Drs. Wardlow, Coon, Blake, Rankin, Wellons, E. A. Hamilton, Youmans, Bowen, Dodd, Timberman, Davis, Clemmer, W. J. Means, C. S. Means, Steinfeld, Ranchous, Woodlin, Bartley, Beery, E. L. Carlton, J. W. Rogers, Wilcox, Hugh Baldwin, Moore, J. F. Baldwin, J. S. Carlton, E. E. Carlton, E. M. Gilliam, Howell, C. T. Gilliam, Hatton, Emerick, Price, C. S. Hamilton, Bleile, Probst, Kahn, E. J. Wilson, R. B. Smith, Rauschkolb, C. M. Shepard, Euans, Thomas, Winders, Fletcher, President and Secretary.

Dr. W. J. Means reported a case of thrombus of popliteal artery with amputation at middle third of femur. Dr. E. M. Gilliam reported a similar case. Dr. J. F. Baldwin reported a case of osteosarcoma, cystic growth, portion of a dermoid, and a tubercular testicle.

Dr. Wilcox read a paper on "The Practical Use of the Cystoscope, with Demonstration," in two interesting cases. Discussion by Drs. C. S. Hamilton, E. M. Gilliam, J. F. Baldwin, Wardlow and Youmans.

Regular Meeting, September 17, 1906.

JAMES U. BARNHILL, Pres.

CHARLES J. SHEPARD, Sec'y. Members present 43. Dr. E. A. Hamilton presented a pathologic specimen of membranous colitis. Dr. Baldwin showed a specimen of a double uterus with two distinct horns and a single cervix.

Dr. Howell reported a case of morbus coxarius, also a case of appendicitis where the appendix had been inverted in a previous operation and had not sloughed away.

Dr. Bowen read a short paper on the use of the X-Ray in diagnosing foreign bodies in the eye, contracted pelves, and examining frontal sinouses, with demonstrations.

Drs. G. W. Mosby and W. E. Lloyd, Columbus; O. H. Dunton, Circleville, and Frank C. Wright, Grove City, were elected to membership in the Academy.

Dr. E. A. Hamilton read a paper on "Anal Fistula," published in this issue. Discussion by Drs. Howell and Thomas.

SENECA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

The Seneca County Medical Society held its regular meeting September 20th, at Tiffin. Papers were read by Dr. C. A. Howell, Columbus, on "Puerperal Sepsis," and Dr. E. H. Porter, Tiffin, on "Trachoma." The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Dr. R. C. Chamberlain, Tiffin, President; Dr. E. H. Porter, Tiffin, Treasurer; Dr. F. Sweet, Tiffin, Secretary.

TENTH DISTRICT MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

The Tenth District Medical Association held its third annual meeting in Lancaster October 4th. Following is the program: "Prognosis and Treatment of Typhoid Fever," Dr. Howard Jones, Circleville; "Diagnosis and Treatment of Gastric Neuroses," Dr. John Dudley Dunham, Columbus; "The Treatment of Heart Failure in Pneumonia," W. B. Hedges, Delaware; "The Value of Ante-Partum Examinations," Andrews Rogers, West Jefferson; "Puerperal Eclampsia," R. W. Monhank, Royalton; "Vomiting, Its Importance as a Symptom in Diseases of Children," Robert Leach, Mt. Sterling; "The Medical Treatment of Children," G. E. Robins, Chillicothe; address, Dr. Dan Milliken, Hamilton; "Accidental Syphilis Among Physicians," Charles J. Shepard, Columbus; "Appendicitis in Pregnancy," Dr. Yeatman Wardlow, Columbus; "Suggestion," Dr. C. D. Mills, Marysville; "Medical Legislation," Dr. J. W. Clemmer, Columbus.

THE AMERICAN ORTHOPEDIC ASSOCIATION.

The twentieth annual meeting of the American Orthopedic Society was held in Toronto, Ontario, August 20-23. The Association elected the following officers for the coming year: President, Dr. Joel E. Goldthwait, Boston: Vice Pres idents, Dr. Henry Ling Taylor, New York, and Dr. Ansel G. Cook, Hartford, Conn.; Secretary, Dr. Robert B. Osgood, Boston; Treasurer, Dr. E. G. Brackett, Boston; Executive Committee, Dr. John Ridlon, Chicago; Dr. D. R. Townsend, New York; Dr. H. Augustus Wilson, Philadelphia; Dr. Goldthwait and Dr. Osgood, ex-officio.

In this relation the physician should be considered first as medical attendant or family physician, and second, as a citizen and teacher. As family physician, perhaps the most important thing is that he should be able to make an early diagnosis. The aim should be to recognize the disease in the prebacilliary stage, though this is not always possible.

To start the discussion, some of the more important symptoms and signs in early tuberculosis may be referred to. These of course are quite different in different cases. A careful history of the case is very important. Frequently it is found that an attack of pneumonia, pleurisy or grip, has been followed by tuberculosis. Heredity is of some importance, but it is more important in going into this part of the history to learn whether the patient has been closely associated with some one who has had tuberculosis.

Temperature taking is very important, but. some precautions are necessary to insure correct records. Many of these cases show no fever during the forenoon, and where possible the temperature should be taken every two hours during the waking periods and for two days, where it can be arranged. We only look for slight changes in temperature, therefore we must use the thermometer carefully. It has been found that taking a glass of ice water will reduce the temperature of the mouth a degree or more, which may last fifteen or twenty min*Synopsis of Address by C. O. P robst, M. D., Given at the Meeting of the Warren County Medical Society, at Lebanon, Oct, 2, 1906.