ASSOCIATION NEWS. Preston, Lynchburg, Va. ; Nicholas Senn, Chicago ; Cathe¬ rine Slater, Chicago ; Edmund H. Stevens, Cambridge, Mass. ; Eugene S. Talbot, Chicago ; Fred C. Valentine, New York ; Competition for the Senn Medal.\p=m-\Pursuantto a resolution J. Henry Woods, Brookline, Mass. adopted by the Section of Surgery and Anatomy of the The following party sailed from New York, Saturday, July 3, Medical American Association, June 4, 1897, I have been 1897, by the North German Lloyd Express Steamship Werra : appointed by the Chairman, Dr. Reginald H. Sayre, as Chair- Dr. Catherine Slater, Aurora, 111. ; Miss M. Costigan, Chi¬ man of the Committee charged with the awarding of the Senn cago, 111. ; Miss Isabel Mclsaacs, Chicago, 111. ; Dr. Harriet E. Medal for 1898. The other members of the Committee are Garrison, Dixon, 111. ; Dr. I. N. Wear, Fargo, N. Dak. ; Dr. A. E. Abrams, Conn. ; Mrs. Drs. H. O. Walker of and S. H. Weeks of Hartford, Abrams, Hartford, Detroit, Mich., Conn. ; Mr. D. A. Bishop, Jersey City, N. J. ; Mrs. Bishop, Portland, Me. Jersey City, N. J. ; Miss Bishop, Jersey City, N. J. ; Dr. W. 1. A gold medal of suitable design is to be conferred upon H. A. Bonwill, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Miss E. Lincoln, Provi¬ the member of the American Medical Association who shall dence, R, I. ; Miss Anne L. Gorman, Providence, R. I. ; Mrs. present the best essay upon some surgical subject. Lillian Condell, St. Louis, Mo. ; Miss Grace Reynolds, Sugar 2. This medal will be known as the Nicholas Senn Prize Hill, 111. ; Dr. B. T. Whitmore, Chicago, 111. ; Dr. Jas. G. Medal. Hyndman, Cincinnati, Ohio ; Mrs. Hyndman, Cincinnati, 3. The award shall be made under the following conditions : Ohio ; Dr. F. B. Galbraith, Pontiac, Mich. ; Mr. Galbraith, a. The name of the author of each competing essay shall be Jr., Pontiac, Mich. ; Dr. W. F. Southard, San Francisco, Cal. ; enclosed in a sealed envelope bearing a suitable motto or device, Dr. W. F. Forwood, Washington, D. C. ; Mr. N. B. Scott, the essay itself bearing the same motto or device. The title of Wheeling, W. Va. ; Mrs. Scott, Wheeling, W. Va. ; Mr. Jos. the successful essay and the motto or device to be read at the Stone Perry, Worcester, Mass. ; Mrs. Perry, Worcester, Mass. ; meeting at which the award is made, and the corresponding Miss Josephine Perry, Worcester, Mass. envelope to be then and there opened and the name of the suc¬ The following comprise the Athens and Constantinople sec¬ b. cessful author announced, All successful essays become tion on the same vessel : of Association, the property the c. The medal shall be con¬ Dr. ferred and honorable mention made of the two other J. H. Woods, Brookline, Mass. ; Dr. George Ryerson essays Fowler, N. Y. Mrs. N. considered worthy of this distinction, at a general meeting of Brooklyn, ; Fowler, Brooklyn, Y. ; Dr. the Association, d. The competition is to be confined to T. N. Lloyd, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Dr. Daniel R. Brower, Chi¬ 111. ; Dr. D. R. 111. Dr. those who at the time of entering the competition, as well as at cago, Brower, Jr., Chicago, ; Nicholas the time of the shall be members of the Senn, Chicago, 111. ; Dr. W. N. Senn, Chicago, 111. ; Dr. conferring medal, S. 111. Dr. American Medical Association, e. The competition for the Eugene Talbot, Chicago, ; Lucy Waite, Chicago, will be closed three months before the next annual 111. ; Dr. Casey A. Wood, Chicago, 111. ; Mrs. Wood, Chicago. medal Dr. Edward K. meeting of the American Medical Association, and no essays 111.; Root, Hartford, Conn., together with will be received after March 1, 1898. Mrs. Fowler, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Mrs. Wood, Hartford, Conn. Competitors will address their essays to the undersigned. laryngological section international congress. J. McFadden Gaston, M.D., Chairman. \% Edgewood Ave., Atlanta, Ga. At a special meeting of the Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Society of Moscow, held June 21, 1897, it was decided that a "bureau" should be instituted for the convenience of members of the SOCIETY NEWS. Twelfth Section of the Twelfth International Medical Con¬ gress (Otological and Rhino-Laryngological Section). The Twelfth International Medical Congress.\p=m-\ThePresident and Sec- object of this bureau will be to give all information needed,· retary have issued the following circular under date of June 13 not only as to matters concerning the Congress, but as to all (old style) presidents of important medical societies : other matters where our visitors may require assistance or Dear Sir:\p=m-\HisMajesty the Emperor of Russia has given information. This reference-bureau will be open from 7 to 9 authority to hold at Moscow, on the 19th to the 26th of August, p. m., from the 13th to the 19th day of August, in the Doctors' 1897, the Twelfth International Medical Congress, and has Club (Bolshay Dmitroffka), and during the meetings in the deigned to take it under his august protection. Desiring to room of the Section XII b. (Laryngo-Rhinology). I. N. Scott, assure to this great reunion, learned men of the highest char- President. acter, and that the international character of the meeting shall ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONGRESS. be marked, the Executive Committee has addressed itself to Transportation free of charge in first-class carriages from the the most important scientific societies of the world and begs Russian frontier to Moscow. Half-rate tickets will be issued that they will send representatives to the said Congress. The to members of the Congress by the French, Italian, Spanish, Committee hopes that the honorable society of which you are Swedish and Norwegian, and Oriental railways, but not by the the president will not refuse to contribute to the \l=e'\clatof the German roads. Reductions in fare are offered by many Euro¬ next scientific f\l=e^\teof Moscow, by sending delegates, to whom pean steamships, but not by the transatlantic companies. it will be happy to accord the highest consideration. Accept, Foreigners must be provided with passports, properly vised dear Sir, assurances of the highest consideration. by a Russian Consul in the country to which they belong. J. F. Klein, President. The passports will be inspected at the frontier. Committees S. S. Korsakow, for the Secretary General. of Russian delegates will be present at the frontier stations to The following have had credentials issued for Moscow by the supply information and assistance, and there will also be com¬ American Medical Association : mittees at the Moscow railway stations, as well as offices, where Drs. L. Ashton, Dallas, Tex. ; Frank Billings, Chicago ; W. information with regard to lodgings, etc., may be obtained. If D. R. Brower, G. A. Bonwill, Philadelphia ; Chicago ; Augustus physicians take their wives, or other members of their family, P. Clarke, Cambridge, Mass. ; Judson Daland, Philadelphia ; will have to pay full railroad fares for but a com¬ Charles Denison, Denver, Colo. ; Henry B. Favill, Chicago ; they them, Thos. H. Fenton, Philadelphia ; Geo. Ryerson Fowler, Brook¬ mittee of women, presided over by Mme. Sklifossovsky, will lyn, N. Y. ; Wm. H. Forwood, U. S. A. ; Jacob Frank, Chi¬ look after the ladies that go to the Congress and see that they : Alex. J. cago Henry Gradle, Chicago ; Campbell, Syracuse, have a good time. Rooms can be had at from $1 to $3 a J. R. Mass. : Chas. H. day, N. Y. ; Hildreth, Cambridge, Hughes, with and and dinners in Moscow St. Louis, Mo. ; Florence W. Hunt, Chicago ; H. L. E. John¬ morning evening coffee, good from cents ston, Washington, D. C. : Wm. D. Kelly, St, Paul, Minn. ; J. restaurants cost 40 to $2. A buffet will be opened O. Knipe, Norristown, Pa. ; O. Litzenberger, Converse, Ind. ; in the building where the Congress meets, in which meals may T. Mortimer Lloyd, Brooklyn, N.Y. ; Thos. McDavitt, St. Paul, be had at very low prices. Minn. : Harold N. ; J. O. Ind. Moyer, Chicago Malsbury, Peru, ; to be must to the treas¬ F. S. Milbury, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Thos. H. Manley, New York ; Physicians intending present apply Abner M. Miller, Bird in Hand, Pa. ; John H. Packard, Phila¬ urer, Prof. N. Filatow, Moscow, for tickets of membership, delphia, Pa. ; Theophilus Parvin, Philadelphia, Pa, ; Geo. M. inclosing 10 rubles or $4. The tickets will serve to identify

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