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at places fixed by the Council; and any resident of North America 
otherwise eligible (as described beyond) may be elected an Ordinary 
member. There were present, in fact, representatives from places 
as far apart as Montreal, Ann Arbor, Baltimore and Boston, The 
Institutions represented at the meeting included Harvard Univer- 
sity, Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, The University 
of Pennsylvania, The University of Michigan, McGill University, 
The (Columbia) College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Medical Staff of 
the U. S. Navy. 
The present members of the society are as follows: H. G. Beyer, 
U.S. Navy; H. P. Bowditch, Harvard University ; H. C. Chap- 
man, Philadelphia; R. H. Chittenden, Yale University; J. G. 
Curtis, New York; J. C. Dalton, New York; H. H. Donaldson, 
Baltimore; F. W. Ellis, Springfield, Mass.; G. L. Goodale, Har- 
vard University ; G. Stanley Hall, Baltimore; H. H. Hare, Phil- 
adelphia; W. H. Howell, Baltimore; Joseph Jastrow, Baltimore ; 
W. P. Lombard, New York; H. N. Martin, Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity ; T. W. Mills, Montreal; C. S. Minot, Harvard University ; 
S. Weir Mitchell, Philadelphia; William Osler, Philadelphia ; 
Isaac Ott, Easton, Pa.; E. T. Reichert, Philadelphia; W. T. - 
wick, Boston; H. Sewall, Ann Arbor; R. Meade Smith, Philadel- 
pus ; V. ©. Vaughan, Ann Arbor; J. W. Warren, Boston; Wil- 
iam Welch, Baltimore ; H. C. Wood, Philadelphia. 
A PRACTICAL DEFINITION oF A PHysIoLoGIsT.—[In the for- 
and it is very interesting to see that the physiology of to-day has so 
far advanced beyond the stage of merely “ Human Physiology” 
It i ysiology 
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