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Dr. Jambs Wynne presented a communication from the Medical 

 Department of the National Institute on the subject of Hygiene, 

 (See Appendix J,) and subsequently offered the following: 



Resolved, That the communication of the Medical Department of 

 the National Institute be referred to a Select Committee of five, to 

 be appointed by the chair, with instructions to report before the 

 adjournment of this Association. Postponed. 



Dr. Roberts presented the following resolution referring to the 

 communication from the Naval Medical Corps, which had been in- 

 troduced by himself. 



/^'solved, That the communication of Dr. W. M. WOOD and Dr. 

 N. Pinkney, TJ. S. N., be referred to the Committee on Publication, 

 and published with the documents. Postponed. 



Dr. E. S. Caiir, from the Committee appointed to nominate Stand- 

 ing Committees for the ensuing year, reported the following nomina- 

 tions, which were adopted, after the substitution of the name of Dr. 

 S. Jackson, (late of Northumberland,) for that of Dr. Bell, de- 

 clined : 



Committee of Arrangements. 



Dr. Jacob Bigelow, Boston, Chairman. 

 Dr. E. Hale, Boston, Dr. John Ware, Boston, 



" Z. B. Adams, " " 0. W. Holmes, " 



" J. C. Dalton, " " H. I. Bowl-itch, " 



Committee on Medical Sciences. 



Dr. L. P. Yandell, Kentucky, Chairman. 

 Dr. S. M. Smith, Columbus, 0., Dr. Samuel Jackson, (late of 



Northumberland,) Pa. 

 " J. F. White, Cincinnati, " Gr. S. Upshur, Virginia, 



" E. S. Carr, Vermont, " S. H. Harris, Tennessee. 



5th instant, enclosing a copy of resolutions adopted by the 'American Medical Associa- 

 tion,' at its late annual session in Baltimore. 



"Appreciating the valuable services of the Medical Ollicers of the Navy, it gives me 

 great pleasure to place on the records of the Department the just and kind notice taken 

 of them by so enlightened and respectable a body of their fellow-citizens as the 'Ame- 

 rican Medical Association.' 



" I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



"J. Y. MASON. 

 "Messrs. Alfued Stille, II. I. Bowditcii, 



" Secretaries ' American Medical Association: " 



