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portant events bearing directly upon the history of medicine have 
played throughout the history of the world. The illustrations of 
the paper included a hundred and fifty examples of the medals 
themselves, in regular sequence, from the days of Roman and’ 
Greek medicine down almost to the date of the paper itself, an 
interesting commemoration of events and individuals marking 
epochs in the history of medicine. These medals were taken up 
seriatim, references were made to the lives of individuals and the 
scientific work done by them, and descriptions were given of the 
occasions which called for the striking of medals. 
The paper closed with an expression of hope that the Society 
might be stimulated at the sight of so many handsome and perma- 
nent memorials of the men and times of the past, to attempt to 
preserve the features of its first president, Joseph Henry, in a 
similar enduring form. 
The bibliography of the subject was discussed at some length, 
and the following works were referred to: 
MeEap, Richardi.—Dissertatio de Nummis quibusdam a Smyrnaeis 
in medicorum honorem percussis. Naples, 1752. 
Rupo.put, C. A.—Index numismatum in virorum de rebus_ medi- 
cis vel physicis meritorum memoriam percussorum. Berlin, 
Ist edition 1823, 2d edition 1825, 12mo., XII, 131 pp, 3d 
edition 1828, 4th edition 1829. (This work (2d edition) 
comprises the description of 523 medals struck in honor of 
350 scientific and medical men.) 
RENAULDIN, Leop. Jos.—LEtudes historiques et critiques sur les 
Médicins Numismatistes, contenant leur biographie et l’an- 
alyse de leurs écrits. Paris, 1851, 8°, XVI, 574 pp. (This 
work contains the names of 61 physicians). 
CHEREAU (A).—Les mereaux et les getons de l’ancienne faculté de 
médecine de Paris. L’Union Médicale. Paris, 1873, 3 
Series, XV, pp. 309, 321. 
PFEIFFER, (L) und RuLtanp (C).—Pestilentia in Nummis. Ges- 
chichte der grossen Volkskrankheiten in numismatischen 
Documenten. Ein beitrag zur Geschichte der Medicin und 
der Cultur. Tubingen, 1882, 8 X, 189 PP. Mit zwei 
Tafeln Abbildungen in lichtdruck. 
Wrornu, Warwick.—Asklepios and the Ceins of Pergamon. From 
the Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic 
Society. London, 1882, Part I, Third Series, No. 5, pages 
1 to 51, plates 3. 
Moeusen, J. C. G.—The exact title of this author’s work is not 
known to the writer of the paper; it was written in German, 
