[extract from the memorial volume of the r. m. m. a,] 
INTRODUCTION. 
The Rocky Mountain Medical Association had its 
origin in a desire to perpetuate and keep fresh the friend- 
ships formed among the physicians who actually crossed 
the Rocky Mountains to attend the meeting of the Ameri- 
can Medical Association in San Francisco, California, in 
May, 1 87 1. On that occasion there were one hundred 
and twenty-three physicians who traversed the Continent 
for this purpose, all of whom have been constituted mem- 
bers of the Association. The ladies of the party and a 
few non-professional gentlemen who were in the company 
are recognized as honorary members. The organization 
is entirely social and memorial in its character. It 
meets annually at the same time and place as the Amer- 
ican Medical Association. The meeting of 1877 was or- 
ganized on the evening of the 6th of June, in the reading 
room of the Palmer House in Chicago. After the trans- 
action of the routine business, the president. Dr. Toner, 
read his address, at the conclusion of which a resolution 
was unanimously passed that it and the accompanying 
biographical sketches of the members be published by 
the Association. The committee appointed for that pur- 
pose takes pleasure in presenting to the members of the 
Rocky Mountain Medical Association this admirable dis- 
course and desirable record in a handsome memorial 
volume as an appropriate souvenir of friendship. 
N. S. DAVIS, M. D., 
Committee on Publication : — J. MORRIS, M. D. 
