the utmost delicacy towards the professional character of the gentleman previously connected with the patient.

SENIORITY.

A regular and academical education furnishes the only presumptive evidence of professional ability, and is so honorable and beneficial, that it gives a just claim to pre-eminence among physicians at large, in proportion to the degree in which it may be enjoyed and improved. Nevertheless, as industry and talents may furnish exceptions to this general rule, and this method may be liable to difficulties in the application, seniority among practitioners of this town should be determined by the period of public and acknowledged practice as a physician or surgeon in the same. This arrangement, being clear and obvious, is adapted to remove all grounds of dispute among medical gentlemen; and it secures the regular continuance of the established order of precedency, which might otherwise be subject to troublesome interruptions by new settlers, perhaps not long stationary in the place.

Standing Committee - Drs. George Hayward, Francis Minot, C. D. Homans, Buckminster Brown, and J. C. Warren.

S. L. Abbot.

F. S. Ainsworth.
G. O. Allen.
Andrew Alexander.
J. F. Appell.
James Ayer.
H. H. A. Beach.
C. B. Belt.
G. A. Bethune.
G. F. Bigelow.
H. J. Bigelow.
Jacob Bigelow.
C. J. Blake.
J. G. Blake.

F. M. Blodgett.
W. E. Boardman.
J. N. Borland.
H. I. Bowditch.
Buckminster Brown.
F. H. Brown.
C. E. Buckingham.

MEMBERS.

F. E. Bundy.
Samuel Cabot.
B. F. Campbell.
W. H. Campbell.
Walter Channing.
D. W. Cheever.
H. G. Clark.
Luther Clark,
E. H. Clarke.
C. D. Cleaveland.
W. W. Codman,
D. T. Coit.
C. H. Colburn.
Algernon Coolidge.
B. E. Cotting.
P. M. Crane.
T. B. Curtis.
J. W. Cushing.
Stephen Cushing.
W. J. Dale.

B. F. Davenport.

N. B. Shurtleff.
A. D. Sinclair.
E. M. Skinner.
James Smythe.
C. H. Spring.
Horace Stacy.

C. F. Starkweather.

Calvin Stevens.

D. H. Storer.

H. R. Storer.

C. C. Street.
G. A. Stuart.
A. M. Sumner.
C. W. Swan.
G. G. Tarbell.
David Thayer.
G. N. Thomson.
W. H. Thorndike.
George Tower.
J. B. Treadwell.

Henry Tuck.
E. G. Tucker.
Joshua Tucker.
J. B. Upham.
O. F. Wadsworth.
C. E. Ware.

J. C. Warren.
J. H. Warren.
S. G. Webber.
J. R. Webster.
M. W. Weld.
J. C. White.
Robert White.
W. J. Whitney.
E. N. Whittier.
Edward Wigglesworth, Jr.
Robert Willard.
H. W. Williams.
J. L. Williams.
David Youngman.

Boston Society for Medical Observation.

Originally organized April 14, 1835; discontinued in 1838, and revived March 17, 1846. The Society was formed on the plan of the Society for Medical Observation in Paris, of which Louis was president, "to make its members good observers of disease, to collect and arrange accurately recorded facts in furtherance of the cause of Medical Science, and to publish from time to time the results of the examination of such facts." The members are classed as Active, Associate, Honorary, and Corresponding.

The number of active members is limited to forty. Any member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, residing in Boston, is eligible as a member. Active or associate members of twenty years' standing may be elected honorary members. Corresponding members are elected from those who, having been active or associate members, have left the city, but still desire to retain their connection with the Society. Active and honorary members pay an annual assessment of six dollars; associate members, four dollars. The payment of fifty dollars at one time constitutes one a life-member.