The following Resolution was adopted, on motion of Dr. H. I. Bowditch, of Boston:

Resolved, That a Committee of one from each District Society be appointed by the President, whose duty it shall be to report at the next Annual Meeting of this Society, upon the prevalence of the disease called Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis,' or 'Spotted Fever.'"

The following gentlemen were appointed on this Committee, viz.:

Dr. Luther, Parks, Jr., of Boston, Chairman.

G. W. Doane,

N. S. Babbitt,
Charles Howe,
F. H. Hooper,
E. P. Fearing,
Wm. D. Lamb,
H. O. Stone,
J. W. D. Osgood,
P. L. B. Stickney,
A. W. Thompson,
Ephraim Cutter,
N. B. Edwards,
Alfred Hosmer,
C. C. Tower,
H. N. Jones,
Luther Parks,
Joseph Sargent,

T. R. Boutelle,

Hyannis.
South Adams.
Taunton.
New Bedford.
Nantucket.
Lawrence.
Salem.
Greenfield.
Chicopee.
Northampton.
Woburn.

N. Chelmsford.
Watertown.
S. Weymouth.
Kingston.
Boston.
Worcester.

Fitchburg.

At 12 o'clock, on motion of Dr. H. L. Sabin, of Williamstown, it was voted to adjourn for one minute.

ADJOURNED MEETING.

MAY 31, 1865.

The President called the Society to order at a few minutes past noon, and stated that there were two matters involving changes or additions to the By-Laws, which would properly come before this meeting. The first was a report from the Councillors, recommending a two days' session of

the Society, the first day to be the day preceding the Annual Meeting in Boston; the time to be spent in listening to scientific communications, and visiting different medical and other institutions in the city, with a dinner at 4 o'clock, P.M., and the second day to be the Anniversary of the Society, as at present.

A discussion ensued, from which it appeared that while gentlemen generally were in favor of a two days' session, those from out of the city objected to the day and hour of the dinner.

Dr. David Rice, of Leverett, offered the following Resolution as a substitute for the plan proposed by the Committee:

"Resolved, That a meeting preliminary to the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society be held on the Tuesday immediately preceding it, the time to be occupied in such a manner as may be determined upon by a Committee chosen for that purpose."

A division of the Resolution was called for and agreed to. The Society then voted, first, to hold a meeting preliminary to the Annual Meeting, as above; and, second, that a committee be appointed to determine in what way the time shall be occupied.

The President appointed the following gentlemen to serve on this committee: Drs. J. Homans, Alonzo Chapin, J. L. Miller, J. M. Warren, D. H. Storer and G. C. Shattuck.

The President stated that the second matter to come before the meeting was a report of the Committee of the Councillors on the rules regarding Censors, which recommended the following additions to the By-Laws: "No Board of Censors shall admit to membership any individual who is a resident in another district, unless he presents a satisfactory certificate of character and professional standing from the President, or at least two of the Censors of the District wherein he resides."

The question was put, and the recommendation adopted by the Society without discussion.

At one o'clock the Society was again called to order, and listened to the Annual Address, written by Dr. B. E. Cotting, of Roxbury. In the absence of the orator, the address was read by Dr. R. M. Hodges, of Boston.

The thanks of the Society were voted to Dr. Cotting for his able and philosophical Discourse.

Adjourned at 2 o'clock, P.M.

C. D. HOMANS,

Recording Secretary.

TREASURER'S REPORT.

THE Treasurer respectfully reports that the amount of money received by him for the Society, during the past year, was five thousand eight hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-four cents ($5,831 24). The amount expended was five thousand three hundred and two dollars and ninety-one cents ($5,302 91), leaving a balance in his hands of five hundred and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents ($528 33). The principal items of receipt and expenditure will be found in the analysis account hereto annexed.

One thousand and ninety dollars ($1,090 00) has been paid towards extinguishing the Society's debt, and in a few weeks we shall owe but one thousand dollars. The surplus income of the Shattuck Fund (after paying for the printing of the "Medical Communications") has been deposited in the Savings Bank.

The great increase in nearly all our expenses, without corresponding augmentation of the annual assessment, the payment of a large instalment of our debt, together with the continued diminution of our income from the absence of many of the Fellows in the army, have reduced the balance in favor of the Society to a smaller amount than might otherwise have been expected.

The property of the Society is as follows:

THE undersigned have this day examined the accounts of Francis Minot, Treasurer of the Massachusetts Medical Society, for the past year, and find said accounts to be correctly cast and properly vouched, and there is a balance to the credit of the Society amounting to five hundred and twentyeight dollars and thirty-three cents. They have also examined the bonds and other evidences of property belonging to the Society, and find that they represent the amount of thirty-one thousand one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents.