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Institution; and it is understood that the 
committee of the National Educational 
Association on the question of establishing 
a National University in Washington ap- 
proves the plan and purposes of the Wash- 
ington Memorial Institution. The Washing- 
ton Academy of Sciences, having turned over 
to the new organization the conduct and 
maintenance of the Washington Memorial 
Institution, will now cooperate with the 
George Washington Memorial Association 
in the erection and maintenance of a me- 
morial building to be dedicated to science, 
literature and the liberal arts. 
ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE 
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.* 
In approaching the discharge of my 
duties as presiding officer of the fifty-second 
session of the American Medical Associa- 
tion, I beg to express my appreciation of 
the generous suffrages by which I have 
been called to a position of such conspicuous 
honor. This appreciation becomes all the 
more pronounced when I reflect upon the 
magnitude and achievements of this great 
national body and upon the luster of the 
distinguished men who have presided over 
its deliberations. This thought brings me 
to the first duty of the occasion, and that 
is officially to bring to your attention the 
fact that since our Jast reunion three of my 
most illustrious predecessors have been 
ealled from their worldly activities to the 
realm of rewards. Alfred Stillé, Lewis A. 
Sayre and Hunter McGuire, each a former 
president of the Association, died within a 
single week. Their lives were known of 
men, their records are ornaments of our 
annals, and their achievements are their 
eulogies. They labored zealously and with 
beneficent results, not alone in the scien- 
tific field, but in behalf of an organized 
national profession ; and to guard zealously 
*Delivered before the Fifty-second Annual Session 
at Saint Paul, Minn., June 4, 1901. 
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the splendid legacy which they, among 
others, have left us, must be one object of 
our labors upon this auspicious occasion. 
The hope is indulged that steps may be 
taken to procure suitable portraits of these 
and of other deceased presidents of the 
Association, to be placed in some safe 
gallery until such time as the Association 
may be able to transfer them to its own 
Temple of Fame. JI recommend that suit- 
able formal action be taken on this occasion 
relative to the life, distinguished services 
and the death of these lamented confreres. 
FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE AMERICAN 
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The American Medical Association ac- 
credited delegates during the last year to 
several foreign medical conventions, nota- 
bly the International Medical Congress at 
Paris, the Dominion Medical Association of 
Canada, the Mexican National Association 
and the Pan-American Medical Congress at 
Havana. To each of these organizations 
the American Medical Association sustains 
relations of peculiar intimacy. As one of 
the great scientific nations of the earth, the 
United States is naturally an integral part 
of the International Medical Congress. 
This Association, by a resolution presented 
by your present executive officer, took the 
initiative in 1891, in organizing the Pan- 
American Medical Congress. The first re- 
union of that Congress was held in Wash- 
ington in 1893, under the presidency of the 
late lamented Dr. William Pepper. The 
second was held in the City of Mexico in 
1896 under the presidency of Dr. Carmona 
y Valle, while the third has been held dur- 
ing the last few months in the City of Ha- 
vana under the distinguished presidency of 
Dr. Juan Santos Fernandez. This move- 
ment has for its object the establishment of 
closer relations between the medical pro- 
fession of the different countries of the 
Western Hemisphere. It has already 
