284 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [Aug. 



EDITORIAL. 



General Index. — This General Index is received with 

 very much pleasure by the subscribers. Dr. R. H. W. 

 says: "It is excellent, and evidently cost youa g-reatdeal 

 of labor, it adds g-reatly to the value of the set of 

 books." 



Walter White Objects.— Prof. L. W. C. writes: "Will 

 you please send me as full a list as you have in stock of 

 the Walter White objects. A friend of mine has been re- 

 cently mounting- some of them in my laboratory and I like 

 them so well that I want to secure all that I can get." 



The A. E. T. A.— The Sixth Annual Meeting- of The 

 American Electro-Therapeutic Association will be held 

 on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 29th and 30th, and 

 Thursday, October 1st, 1896, in Allston Hall, The Studio 

 Building, on Clarendon Street, near St. James Avenue, 

 Boston, Mass. 



Prof. A. E. Dolbear, Tuft's College, Mass., is the 

 Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements. 



Dr. W. H. White, 222 Marlborough Street, Boston, Mass., 

 is the Vice-Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements. 



Dr. Frederick H. Morse, Melrose, Mass., is the Chair- 

 man of the Committee on Exhibitions. 



The next annual meeting promises to be a greater suc- 

 cess than any former one. Great interest is shown in all 

 quarters ; a large attendance is promised. Many candi- 

 dates of national reputation are proposed for membership, 

 so that the amendment to increase the limit of members 

 becomes a necessity. The best talent has already an- 

 nounced papers, a larg-er number than ever before, at this 

 early date; material almost sufficient to make a pro- 

 g-ramme for the session of unusual interest. There will 

 be two discussions of importance in electro-therapeutics, 

 interesting- reports of all standing- committees, several 

 scientific lectures on the first evening, with demonstra- 

 tions and stereoscopic views (including the Roentg-en X 



