in account with Caspar Wister, Treasurer. CR. May 1, 1868. By cash to Express for postage on draft Dr. W. B. Atkinson, travelling expenses Dr. J. R. Black, for prize essay T. K. Collins, for printing, binding, and $225 100 00 74 00 196 54 100 00 Henry Barnes for services as clerk balance on hand 50 00 2 50 46 00 5 26 83 92 $2857 08 Audited and found correct. F. G. SMITH, Chairman. H. F. ASKEW, WM. MAYBURRY, WM. B. ATKINSON. ADDRESS OF SAMUEL D. GROSS, M. D., LL. D., PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION. IN taking the chair which, one year ago, your impartiality assigned to me, I should be false to every emotion of my heart if I failed to express my profound gratitude for the distinguished honor which was thus, unsolicited and totally unexpected, conferred upon me. I cordially thank you for this mark of your respect and confidence. To be the presiding officer of an association which includes among its members many of the oldest and most illustrious physicians of the country, as well as many of the younger, more active, and promising, cannot be esteemed a light honor. The gratification of my election was the more keenly appreciated by me because it occurred in a city in which repose the ashes of some of my earliest and most cherished friends, and in which, under Providence, I laid the foundation of what little reputation I may possess. It will be my endeavor, by an impartial discharge of the duties of this high office, to merit the confidence you have reposed in me, and to do all I can to expedite the transaction of the business that may be brought before us. You will, I doubt not, conduct your deliberations with that calmness and dignity, that amenity and courtesy, that spirit of forbearance, so characteristic of men who bear towards each other the noble title of professional brethren, linked together by the most sacred ties, a divine origin, the cultivation of medical science, and the deepest interests of our common nature. I shall have attained my highest ambition, if, on retiring from this chair, it shall be said of me that I worthily wore the mantle of the many distinguished men who preceded me in office. In addressing you in my official capacity, I shall consider you as a national congress, representing the interests and wishes of the great American republic of medicine, and myself as a chief magisVOL. XIX.-5 |