The envelopes accompanying the successful essays are opened at the annual meeting, and the names of the authors and the essays read before the Association. In 1870, the office of Necrologist was instituted, for the purpose of gathering a necrology of the alumni. At each meeting such biographical sketches as he has prepared are read. All the officers of the Association are elected annually, except the Secretary and Treasurer, and the Necrologist, who are permanent officers. At the meeting held in 1874, a committee was appointed for the purpose of providing an entertainment for the next annual meeting of the Association. OFFICERS FOR 1874-5. President D. S. Jenks, M. D., Class 1866, Plano, Illinois. 1st Vice-President-A. J. Smith, M. D., Class 1871, Wabash, Ind. 2nd Vice-President-V. F. Kinney, M. D., Class 1874. Secretary and Treasurer S. A. McWilliams, M. D., Class 1866, No. 125 Eighteenth St., Chicago. Necrologist-Wm. E. Quine, M. D., Class 1869, Chicago. Committee on Entertainment-Drs. Thomas Bond, Wm. E. Quine, Chas. W. Earle, Lyman Ware, S. A. McWilliams. Alumni Association of the Rush Medical College. Organized October, 1868. Composed of the graduates and faculty of Rush Medical College. Its objects are to encourage and promote social and professional intercourse among the graduates of Rush Medical College. Meetings occur annually at the time of the regular annual commencement. OFFICERS FOR 1874-5. President-C. Goodbrake, Clinton. Secretary S. Cole, Denver, Col. Treasurer-W. C. Hunt, Chicago. Chairman of the Executive Committee-D. S. Root, Chicago. MEDICAL PRIZES. OPEN FOR UNIVERSAL COMPETITION. Stevens' Triennial Prize. Established by the late Alexander H. Stevens, M. D., former President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, on the following plan : The prize is open for universal competition. Each prize, to be awarded triennially, is to consist of the interest yielded by the principal fund during the preceding three years, and will amount to two hundred dollars. The administration of the prize is intrusted to a commission, consisting of the President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons (ex officio), the President of the Alumni Association (ex officio), and the Professor of Physiology (ex officio) in the same institution. The competing essays on either of the following subjects, must be sent in to the President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, on or before the ist day of January, 1876. Each essay must be designated by a device or motto, and must be accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing the same device or motto, and containing the name and address of the author. The envelope belonging to the successful essay will be opened, and the name of the author announced at the annual commencement of the Coilege in March, 1876. The questions proposed are as follows: I. The history of epidemic diseases in the United States from 1860 to 1870; statements as to localities, dates, extent of prevalence and mortality, to be authenticated by appropriate references. The question of treatment is not to form a part of the above subject. 2. The use of the spectroscope in its application to scientific and practical medicine. Warren Prize. Founded by the late Dr. J. Mason Warren, in memory of his father, John C. Warren, M.D. The Warren Triennial Prize, amounting to somewhat less than $400 will be awarded in 1877 to the author of the best essay considered worthy of a prize, on any subject in Physiology, Surgery, or Pathological Anatomy, embodying original researches. The arbitrators are the Medical Board of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Each essay should be accompanied with a sealed envelope containing the author's name and address, and be sent to the undersigned on or before February 1st, 1877. NORTON FOLSOM, Resident Physician, Mass. Gen'l Hospital. Boylston Medical Prize Questions. The Boylston Medical Committee, appointed by the President and Fellows of Harvard University, consists of the following Physicians : J. B. S. Jackson, M.D. Henry J. Bigelow, M.D. Richard M. Hodges, M.D. Samuel Cabot, M.D. At the annual meeting held June 1st, 1874, it was voted that no dissertation worthy of a prize had been offered on either of the subjects proposed for 1874. The following are the subjects proposed for 1875: 1. Original Researches in Medical Science. 2. So-called "Concussion of the Spine." I. The author of a dissertation, considered worthy of a prize, on either of the subjects proposed for 1875, will be entitled to a premium of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars, |