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ject, “ The Gouty and Rheumatic Diathesis, and their Relation to Dis- 
eases of the Eye,” was discussed in papers by Doctors C. S. Bull, S. O. 
Richey, S. D. Risley, Robert Sattler, and R. A. Reeves. The subject 
was further discussed by Doctors J. M. DaCosta and H. M. Lyman. 
The triennial banquet was held in the evening at the Arlington 
Hotel. 
The second general meeting was held May 5th,in the New National 
Theatre, under the direction of the Association of American Physicians, 
the American Physiological Society and the American Pediatric Society, 
The subject for discussion was,“ Internal Secretions Considered in their 
Physiological, Pathological and Clinical Aspects,” on which Dr. W. 
H. Howell and Prof. R. H. Chittenden of the American Physiological 
Society, Dr. George Adams, Dr. J. J. Putnam and Dr. F. P. Kinni- 
cutt of the Association of American Physicians, and Dr. W. Osler of 
the American Pediatric Society, read papers. 
At 5 P. M. the members of the congress and their invited friends met 
in the auditorium of the Army Medical Museum (on account of the 
weather) with the American Surgical Association and the Alumni 
Association of the Jefferson Medical College for the unveiling of the 
bronze statue to Dr. Gross, physician, surgeon and teacher, standing in 
the grounds of the Smithsonian Institute. After a prayer by Rev. B. 
L. Whitman, President of the Columbian University, the statue was 
presented to the United States in an address by Prof. Claudius H. 
Maston. This was to have been followed by the unveiling of the statue 
by the granddaughter of Dr. Gross, Miss Adele Horwitz, but on occount 
of the inclemency of the weather already mentioned this portion of the 
ceremony was omitted. There followed then the address of acceptance 
by Brig.-Gen. G. M. Sternberg, M.D., as representative for the govern- 
ment. This was followed by an address, of which the character and the 
work of Dr. Gross was the subject, by Dr. William Keen. After the 
benediction the meeting adjourned for the evening meeting of the 
congress. 
At 8.15 P. M. the evening session of the congress was begun in the 
Columbia Theatre, where the retiring President, Dr. William H. Welch, 
delivered an address on “Compensatory and Protective Pathological 
Processes.” 
At the first meeting Washington was chosen as the permanent place 
of meeting of the congress. 
The affiliated societies were the American Otological Society, the 
American Neurological Association, the American Gynecological 
_¢iety, the American Dermatological Association, the American Laryn- 
