SUPPL:EMENTT TO TH BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL. LONDON: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5TH, 1908. CONTENTS. PAGE PAGE THE SEVENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION NOTICES ... ... ... 299 BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: PROGRAMME OF BsI ........E...... ... ... ... 293 GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL: 26th MEETINGS OF BRANCHES DIVISIONS: Thursday, NVovember 9 AND Friday,November 27th ... 300 Bath ... ... and ... Bristol Branch ... 295 S 28t7i 301 rday,.November ... ... ...... Gibraltar Branch ... ... ... ... 295 Saturday, November 28t h... ... ... 301... Gloucestershire Branch ... ... ... 295 Report of the Education Commiittee ... ... .. 303 Metropolitan Counties Branch: Chelsea Division ... ... 296 NAVAL AND MILITARY APPOINTMENTS ... ... 313 City Division ... ... 296 VITAL STATISTICS ... ... ... ... ... 314 Hampstead Division.. ... 296 VACANCIES AND APPOINTMENTS .. .. ..314 :South-Eastern Branch: Brighton, Tunbridge Wells,Eastbourne, and Hastings Divisions ... ... 297 BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS ... ... ... 315 Chichester and Worthing Division 297 DIARY FOR THE WEEK ... ... ... ... ... 315 .. .. .. 31 Reigate Division ... ... ..297DIRFOTHWEK. ,-Southern Branch: Guernsey and Alderney Division ... 297 BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED ... ... 315 South Wales and Branch: Cardiff Division 298 CALENDAR ... ... 316 ... Monomnouthshire ... THE SEVENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, JULY 23RD TO JULY 31ST, 1909. President: SIMEON SNELL, D.Sc., F.R.C.S.Edin., Ophthalmic Surgeon, Royal Infirmary, Sheffield. President-eiect: Sir WILLIAM WHITLA, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Queen's College, Belfast. Past-President: HENRY DAVY, M.D., F.R.C.P.Lond., Physician, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter. Chairman of Representative Meetings: JAMES ALEXANDER MACDONALD, M.D., M.Ch., R.U.I., Physician, Taunton and Somerset Hospital. Chairman of Council: EDMUND OWEN, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.C.S., Consulting Surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital, London. Treasurer: EDWIN RAYNER, M.D.Lond., F.R.C.S., Surgeon, Stockport Infirmary, Stockport. The Seventy-seventh Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association will be held in Belfast in July, 1909. The President's address will be delivered on Tuesday, July 27th, and the Sections will meet on the three following days. The Annual Representative Meeting will begin on Friday, July 23rd, 1909. PROGRAMME OF BUSINESS. The Address in Medicine will be delivered by FREDERICK TAYLOR,, M.D., F.R.C.P., Consulting Physician, Guy's Hospital. P-rofessor KOCHER has been invited to deliver the Address in Surgery. The Address in Obstetrics will be delivered by Sir JOHN W. BYERS, M.D., Professor of Midwifery and Diseases of Womien, Queen's College, Belfast. The Popular Lecture will be delivered by Dr. J. A. MACDONALD, Physician to the Taunton and Somerset Hospital, Chairman of the Representative Meetings. THE SECTIONS. The scientific business of the meeting will be conducted that Section, and exercise the power of inviting, accepting, in fifteen Sections, which will. meet on Wednesday, or declining any paper, and of arranging the order in July 28th, Thursday, July 29th, and Friday, July 30th. which accepted papers shall be read. Communications The President, Vice-Presidents, and Honorary Secretaries with respect to papers should be addressed to one of the of each Section constitute a Committee of Reference for i Honorary Secretaries. (242) sv"=Nuw To TIM OF MEETING. -5,5 o 294- a Bm== X=I"L JOURAMI PROGRAMMEGE- ANN-UAL [DEC. TW8. A paper read in the Section must not exceed fifteen MEDICINE. minutes, and no subsequent speech must exceed ten President: Professor JAMES ALEXANDER LINDSAY, M.D., minutes. F.R.C.P., 2, Queen's Elms, Belfast. Papers read are the property of the British Medical Vice-Presidents: ARTHUR FOXWELL, M.D., F.R.C.P., Association, and cannot be published elsewhere than in the 47, Newhall Street, Birmingham; JOSEPH FRANCIS BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL wuithout special permission. O'CARROLL, M.D., F.R.C.P.I., 43, Merrion Square, Dublin*- LAURISTON ELGIE SHAW, M.D., F.R.C.P., 64, Harley Street, The following are the general arrangements so far as London; WILLIAM BAIRD MCQUITTY, M.D., 8, College- they are yet complete: Square East, Belfast. Honorary Secretaries: JOHN SMYTH MORROW, M.D`., ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. Eia House, Antrim Road, Belfast; LEWIS ALBERT SMITH, President: CHARLES SCOTT SHERRINGTON, M.D., F.R.S., M.D., 25, Queen Anne Street, London, W.; JOHN ELDEP Physiological Laboratory, University, Liverpool. MACILWAINE, M.D., 55, University Road, Belfast. Vice-Presidents: Professor THOMAS HUGH MILROY, M.D., F.R.S.E., Queen's College, Belfast; Professor PETER NAVY, ARMY, AND AMBULANCE. THOMPSON, M.D., King's College, Strand, London; ARTHUR President: Fleet Surgeon J. LLOYD THOMAS, R.N. PHILIP BEDDARD, M.D., F.R.C.P., 44, Seymour Street, Vice-Presidents: Inspector-General ROBBRT BENTHANT Portman Square, London, W. R.N. (retired), 22, King's Avenue, Ealing, London, W.; Honorary Secretaries: ALEX. Low, M.B., 142, Blenheim Lieut.-Colonel R. PORTER, R.A.M.C., P.M.O., Station. Place, Aberdeen; JOHN ALEX. MILROY, M.D., Queen's Hospital, Military Barracks, Belfast; Colonel THOMAS H. College, Belfast. HENDLBY, I.M.S., C.I.E., 4, Loudon Road, London, N.W. Honorary Secretaries: Captain M. LOWSLEY, R.A.M.C., DERMATOLOGY AND ELECTRO-TTHERAPEUTICS. St. Michael's Road, Aldershot; Lieutenant HERBERr President: WILLIAM CALWELL, M.D., 6, College Gardens, HUGH BLAIR CUNNINGHAM, M.D., R.A.M.C.(Mil.), 69, Uni- Belfast. versity Road, Belfast. Vice-Presidents: ROBERT BRIGGS WILD, M.D., 96, Mosley Street, Manchester; LESLIE ROBERTS, M.D., 46, Rodney OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY. Street, Liverpool. President: JOHN CAMPBELL, M.D., Crescent House, Honorary Secretaries: JAMES HARRY SEQUEIRA, M.D., University Road, Belfast. F.R.C.P., 8A, Manchester Square, London; S. ERNEST Vice-Presidents: ROBERT ALEXANDER GIBBONS, M.D., 29, DORE, M.D., 26, New Cavendish Street, London; JOHN Cadogan Place, London; JOHN SINGLETON DARLING, M.B., CAMPBELL RANKIN, M.D., 38, University Road, Belfast. High Street, Lurgan; CHARLES EDWIN PURSLOW, M.D., 192, Broad Street, Birmingham; EWEN JOHN MACLEAN, Cardiff. DISEASES OF CHILDRENs M.D., 12, Park Place, F.R.C.S.Edin., 9, Great Honorary Secretaries: HENRY THOMAS HICKS, F.R.C.S., President: HAROLD J. STILES, Derby; ROBERT JAMES JOHNSTONE, M.B., 65, GreaL Stuart Street, Edinburgh. Victoria Street, Belfast. Vice-Presidents: JOHN MCCAW, M.D., 74, Dublin Road, Belfast; RICHARD WHYTOCK LESLIE, M.D., " St. Heliers," OPHTHALMOLOGY. Strandtown, Belfast; ROBERT CAMPBELL, F.R.C.S., 21, President: JOHN WALTON BROWNE, M.D., 10, Colleg- Great Victoria Street, Belfast. Square, Belfast. Honorary Secretaries: ANDREW FULLERTON, F.R.C.S.I., Vice-Presidents: ARTHUR W. SANDFORD, M.D., 13, St& 8, University Square, Belfast. Patrick's Place, Cork; WILLIA31 MARCUS KILLEN, M.D., 9, Clifton Street, Belfast; ALEX. HILL GRIFFITH, M.D., HAEMATOLOGY AND VACCINE THERAPY. 17, St. John Street, Manchester. President: Sir ALMROTH WRIGHT, M.D., F.R.S., 6, Park Honorary Secretaries: JAMES ANDREW CRAIG, M.B., Crescent, Regent's Park, London, N.W. 11, University Square, Belfast; LESLIEs JOHNSTON PATON, Vice-Presidents: THOMAS HOUSTON, M.D., 95, Great F.R.C.S., 1, Spanish Place, Manchester Square, London. Victoria Street, Belfast; Captain STEWART RANKIN 1)OUGLAS, I.M.S., Inoculation Department, St. Mary's Hospital, PATHOLOGY. London. President: Professor WM. ST. CLAIR SYMMERS, M.B., Honorary Secretaries: WILLIAM DUNLOP DONNAN, M.D.,, Queen's College, Belfast. 12, High Street, Holywood, co. Down; DUDLEY W. Vice-Presidents: WALTER SYDNEY LAZARUS-BARLOW, M.D.,. CARMALT-JONES, M.B., B.Ch.Oxon., 78, Wiwpole Street, Cancer Research Laboratory,AMiddlesex Hospital, London; London, W. ARTHUR EDWARD MOORE, Mi.B., Castlemahon, Blackrock,. Cork; ASTLEY VAVASOUR CLARKE, M.D., 37, London Road,. INDUSTRIAL DISEASES AND PUBLIC HEALTH. Leicester; Professor I. WALKER HALL, M.D., 9, Royal Park, President: Louis COLTMAN PARKES, M.D., 61, Cadogan Clifton, Bristol. Square, Chelsea, London. Honorary Secretaries: ALFRED EDWARD BARNES, M.B.,. Vice-Presidents: SAMUEL AGNEW, M.D., Lurgan, co. 40, Elmore Road, Sheffield; OTTO F. F. GRUNBAUM, M.D.>, Armagh; HENRY O'NEILL, M.D., 6, College Square East, 34, Wixnpole Street, London, W. Belfast; CHARLES KILLICK MILLARD, M.D., Town Hall, Leicester. PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS. Honorary Secretaries: CHARLES PORTER, M.D., Public President: Health Department, Town Hall, Finsbury; WILLIAM Vice-Presidents: Professor WALTER ERNEST DIXON, M.D.,. MCLORINAN, L.R.C.P., 103, Antrim Road, Belfast; THOMAS Pharmacological Lsboratory, Cambridge; NEWMAN NEILD, CARNWATH, M.B., Ladywell Sanatorium, Salford, M.D., 9, Richmond Hill, Clifton, Bristol. Manchester. Honorary Secretaries: VICTOR GEORGE LEOPOLD FIELDEN,- M.B., 84, Dublin Road, Belfast; HECTOR CHARLES CAMEaON, LARYNGOLOGY, OTOLOGY, AND RHINOLOGY. M.B., Guy's Hospital, London, S.E. President: STCLAIR THOMSON, M.D., F.R.C.P., 28, Queen Anne Street, London. PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE. Vice-Presidents: ERNEST BLECHYNDEN WAGGETT, M.B., President: OUTTERSON WOOD, M.D., 40, Margaret Street, 45, Upper Brook Street, London, W. ; V. P. HENRY Cavendish Square, London. SMURTHWAITE, M.D., 8, St. Mary's Place, Newcastle-on- Vice-Presidents: GEORGE ROBERT LAWLESS, F.R.C.S.I., Tyne; J. A. KNOWLES RENSHAW, M.D., 11, St. John Street, District Asylum, Armagh; WM. RICHARD DAWSON, M.D., Manchester. 41, Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin. Honorary Secretaries : ROBERT ALLEN, M.B., 5, Queen's Honorary