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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
mittee present (Dr. Winchester and Labau). Dr. Walker’s 
credentials had not been received. 
The matter of appointing a committee on legislation then 
came up. Dr. Winchester opposed the formation of such a com¬ 
mittee as it would be of no practical benefit and would tend to 
bring the Association more or less into politics. He thought the 
Association should take no active part in any political movement. 
.We have no axe to grind and no favors to ask and we should 
keep out of it. 
Dr. Parker supported the formation of such a committee. It 
is not right, he contended, that the Association should be so en¬ 
tirely ignorant of the legislation that is going on. He recalled 
the incidents of the past year when legislation of the greatest 
importance to the profession was enacted by the legislature, and 
yet the Association was entirely ignorant of such proposed legis¬ 
lation, Such a state of things should not be allowed to continue, 
and he moved that such a committee be appointed by the Asso¬ 
ciation. This motion was seconded by Dr. Becket. Dr. Bunker 
supported the appointment of the committee ; he was distinctly 
in favor of it, and on being put to the meeting it was carried un¬ 
animously. 
Nominations were made from the floor, and election by bal¬ 
lot. The committee were appointed after two ballots, with the 
following result: Dr. Howard, 8 votes ; Dr. Bunker, 6 votes and 
Dr. Osgood, 6 votes. 
The Secretary then asked the members for papers, and Dr. 
Bunker volunteered a paper for next meeting and Dr. Winslow 
volunteered for February. 
The Secretary then suggested that an effort should be made 
to make the meetings more interesting. He thought it would be 
a good idea if the chairman were to ask each member present to 
report verbally and in a conversational way any interesting cases 
or any matter of interest to the profession. The idea was adop¬ 
ted and the chairman made a beginning by calling on Dr. Win¬ 
chester to give the Association the benefit of any cases of special 
interest he had had lately. 
