284 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [Aug. 



EDITORIAL. 



General Index. — This General Index is received with 

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

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

 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 g-et." 



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, 1S«K), in Allston Hall, The Studio 

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

 Boston, Mass. 



Prof. A. E. Dolbear, Tuft's Colleg-e, Mass., is the 

 Chairman of the Committee of Arrang-ements. 



Dr. W. H. White, 222 Marlboroug-h Street, Boston, Mass., 

 is the Vice-Chairman of the Committee of Arrang-ements. 



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

 man of the Committee on Exhibitions. 



The next annual meeting- promises to be a g-reater suc- 

 cess than any former one. Great interest i« shown in all 

 quarters ; a larg-e 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 larger 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 



