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(iv.) "That all associated societies shall have 

 the right to appoint a delegate to attend that an- 

 nual conference, and that such delegates shall 

 have all the rights of those appointed by the 

 affiliated societies, except that of membership of 

 the general committee." 



IT. The committee further recommend that the 

 council request the corresponding societies com- 

 mittee — 



(i.) "To collect information as to the societies 

 of the United Kingdom who might become asso- 

 ciated societies under rule 1. 



(ii.) "To consider and report on the question 

 of ' A Journal of Corresponding Societies ' referred 

 to in Principal Griffith's Report." 



III. The committee also recommend — 



" That the council, in nominating a chairman 

 of the conference of delegates, should choose one 

 of their own body." 



On the recommendation of the correspond- 

 ing societies committee, the following resolu- 

 tion, remitted to the committee and embodying 

 subsequent amendments, h^s been adopted by 

 the council : 



BY-LAW. 



I. (i.) " That any society which undertakes local 

 scientific investigation and publishes the results 

 may become a society affiliated to the British 

 Association. 



(ii.) "That the delegates of such societies, who 

 must be or become members of the British Asso- 

 ciation, shall be ex officio members of the general 

 committee. 



(iii.) "That any society formed for the pur- 

 pose of encouraging the study of science, which 

 has existed for three years and numbers not fewer 

 than fifty members, may become a society asso- 

 ciated with the British Association. 



( iv. ) " That all associated societies shall have 

 the right to appoint a delegate to attend the an- 

 nual conference, and that such delegates shall be 

 members or associates of the British Association, 

 and shall have all the rights of those appointed 

 by the affiliated societies, except that of member- 

 ship of the general committee. 



II. " That the corresponding societies commit- 

 tee be requested to collect information as to the 

 societies of the United Kingdom who might be- 

 come associated societies under rule I. {corre- 

 sponding societies ) . 



III. " That in nominating a chairman of the 

 conference of delegates, rule VIII. {corresponding 

 societies) be allowed to stand." 



THE NEW MUNICH CLINIC. 



The completion of the new University 

 Clinic in Munich for nervous and mental 

 diseases marks an important epoch in the 

 progress of humanity, no less than in the 

 history of medicine. From the time when 

 William Griesinger, forty years ago, planned 

 the first modern hospital for the insane, the 

 leading authorities in Germany have labored 

 to perfect the plans and organization of insti- 

 tutions of this class, with the result that the 

 Munich Hospital will serve for years to come 

 as a model to be copied by other nations. 

 Whether the clinic is judged by the opportuni- 

 ties it affords for the observation and treat- 

 ment of nervous and mental diseases, by the 

 provision it makes for the instruction of stu- 

 dents or by the facilities it offers to those 

 engaged in the scientific study of the brain, it 

 stands unique. Without detracting from the 

 remarkable advances made during the past fifty 

 years in surgery, pathology and bacteriology, 

 it may be afiirmed that no greater progress 

 has been recorded in the history of medicine 

 than has occurred in psychiatry during the 

 period that began when Pinel, in the wards of 

 the Salpetriere first removed the chains from 

 the insane, and that culminated in Germany 

 in the movement that has rendered possible 

 the completion of the Munich Hospital. 

 Nearly forty years have passed since univer- 

 sity and state authorities in Germany, influ- 

 enced largely by the teaching of Griesinger, 

 realized that the study of the brain, with a 

 view not only to the discovery of the means 

 for the prevention of insanity, but also to 

 determine the most efficient methods of in- 

 creasing the power to think and act normally, 

 includes the discussion of many problems as 

 important to mankind as the enquiry concern- 

 ing the origin and spread of infectious dis- 

 eases or the growth of tumors. The plans 

 for the hospital in question are not entirely 

 of recent creation; they represent the experi- 

 ence gained in the construction of twenty-two 

 hospitals of similar type which exist in the 

 German empire, and of which not a single 

 example is yet to be found in an English- 

 speaking country. 



As an excellent general description of this 



