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sider the memorial presented by the Medical Department of the 

 National Institute. Accepted, and the following special committee 

 appointed : 



Drs. James Wynne, Baltimore, Drs. Isaac Parrish, Philadelphia, 

 J.M.Thomas, Washington, G. L. Corbin, Virginia, 

 Dr. 0. W. Holmes, Boston. 



The resolution offered by Dr. Roberts, relative to the Naval Me- 

 dical Corps, was taken up and adopted. (See Appendix I.) 



Dr. Usher Parsons, from the Select Committee on the Adultera- 

 tion of Drugs, presented the draft of a Memorial to Congress rela- 

 tive to the subject, and, on motion, it was ordered that said memorial 

 be signed by the officers of this Association, with the names of the 

 various states in which they reside appended to said signatures, and 

 that the memorial, thus authenticated, be sent to the care of Dr. 

 Edwards, Member of Congress, and Chairman of the Special Com- 

 mittee appointed by Congress upon this subject. (See Appendix K 1.) 



The Association then went into Committee of the Whole for the 

 further discussion of the resolutions offered by the Committee on 

 Medical Education. 



Dr. Atlee moved a division of the fifth resolution. 



The following amendment, presented by Dr. R. H. Thomas, wa3 

 accepted in place of the first part of the original resolution, and 

 ordered to be reported to the Association. 



Resolved, That the Faculties of the different schools be requested 

 and advised to institute daily or weekly examinations recapitulatory 

 of the previous lecture or lectures, and take such measures as may 

 enable them to ascertain the regular attendance of the students upon 

 the lectures up to the close of the term. 



The second part of the original resolution, viz., that part relating 

 to a record of students examined, was rejected. 



The sixth resolution was then considered, and the following amend- 

 ment, offered by Dr. T. B. N. Frvi:, was rejected. 



Resolved, That State Medical Societies be requested to appoint, 

 with the consent of Faculties in their respective States, a Board, 

 to consist of three Practitioners of Medicine, in the vicinity of each 

 place where a Medical College exists, who shall be present at the Doc- 

 torate examinations of said College; and, where no State Society 

 exists, that the appointment be left to this Association. 



The original resolution was then adopted. 



The seventh and eighth resolutions were adopted, and ordered to 

 be reported to the Association. 



