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EDITORIAL. 
But whatever may have been the true inwardness of the matter, t 
meeting was called at the Rossmore, and there the gathering to< 
place. In any case it proved to be a fairly interesting meetin 
Six States were represented, though unfortunately, either o 
friends in the west had failed to appoint delegates, or the de 
gates had failed to respond to their appointments; the true so' 
tion of which problem may also be difficult to solve. The meeti 
was very much like its last predecessor, the time being almc 
wholly occupied in discussing the business of the Association. 
The report of the committees were, according to rule, “ cc 
6 picuous by their absence,” the only report offered taking t 
form of a series of short remarks by the chairman of the Comm 
tee on Diseases, relating to some of the contagious diseases m 
prevailing in this country, and were substantially interesting frc 
their practical character and the facts they embodied. By requc 
of the Association the report is printed in the present issue of t 
Review. 
The most interesting feature of the meeting was the proce( 
ings attending the vote of the Association on the papers which li 
been printed for the prizes offered by the Association and t 
editor of the Review. These papers have been printed in pre 
ous issues of this periodical, but as the committee on that subjt 
(not to be out of the fashion) had failed to report, and as a nu 
ber of the members present had not read the articles, they wt 
again read by the Secretary, at the request of the meeting. Th 
were accorded an attentive hearing, and by the general vote 
the meeting, the author of the paper identified by the signati 
of “ Incognitus,” the paper printed in our July number, was i 
judged to have earned the prize and the encomium. On openi 
the envelope which concealed the name of the successful can 
date it was found to contain that of Dr. T. S. Butler, of Oh 
The announcement of the gentleman’s name was heard with lo 
expressions of applause, though subsequently, a rather unpleasf 
surprise was experienced by a portion of the members when t 
fact was learned that the successful essayist was not an Am 
ican but a Canadian graduate, nor a member of the Associate 
There was, however, no alternative—the situation must be accept* 
