Sales of Fee Tables, etc., at Eighty-seventh Annual Meeting.. .55 Amount of Expense in removing Library and Furnishing Room.. 307.60 REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Mr. President and Members: BALTIMORE, April 27, 1886. At the first meeting of the Executive Committee, held subsequently to the last annual meeting, the resignation of the newly elected President, Dr. Quinan, was presented. Dr. Quinan was prompted to tender his resignation because of his increasing deafness, which, in his own judgment, unfitted him for the effective performance of his duties as a presiding officer. Your committee thought it best to request a reconsideration of his purpose, and we are happy to say succeeded in persuading him to continue in office. Subsequently your Curator, Dr. Joseph T. Smith, also presented his resignation, which was not accepted. In accordance with a resolution passed by the Faculty at its last annual meeting, the hall and two rooms we at present occupy, were leased for a period of one year, at $600 per annum; and the old hall on Fayette Street was sub-let from January 1, 1886, until the expiration of our lease June 1, 1886, at the same rate as that for which we had leased it. Four dozen comfortable chairs have been purchased for the hall, and one dozen chairs and two tables for the conversation" and "officers'" rooms; and all our effects have been removed from the old to the new hall, at a cost of less than $307.60. We are gratified to be able to report that all of the medical societies which were sub-tenants at the old building have accompanied us to the new building; several of them at somewhat advanced rates; the Baltimore Medical Association at $100, the Clinical Society at $125, and the Baltimore Academy of Medicine at $125 per annum; and to these has subsequently (February 1), been added as an additional sub-tenant The Maryland Academy of Sciences, at an annual rental of $100. At the last annual meeting, $60 were paid for the use of a hall, which sum is saved to the Faculty this year. We also take pleasure in reporting that, acting in concert with the Library Committee, we have arranged with Dr. Billings for the loan of books for the members of this Faculty, from the Surgeon-General's library, the Faculty assuming all responsibility for loss or damage, and for the safe return of the books within the prescribed time. The members ordering books are to pay expressage to and from Washington, and to be limited in the use of them to the Faculty rooms. The vacancy in the "Special Committee to Draft a Law in the Interest of the Insane of Maryland," caused by the death of Prof. Richard McSherry, was filled by the appointment of Dr. John Morris. The resignation of Dr. George H. Rohe from the Committee on "Public Hygiene," was, after he had declined a request from your committee to withdraw it, accepted, and the vacancy filled by the appointment of Dr. F. E. Chatard, Jr. Your committee also take great pleasure in reporting that Col. George E. Waring, Jr., "Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers," has kindly consented to deliver the Annual Address, on the 28th inst., at 12 o'clock M., and has selected as his theme "The Removal and Destruction of Organic Wastes." All of which is respectfully submitted. THOMAS S. LATIMER, M. D., L. McLANE TIFFANY, M. D., ROBERT T. WILSON, M. D.. Secretary to Executive Committee. REPORT OF BOARD OF EXAMINERS, WESTERN SHORE. The Board of Examiners for Western Shore have received applications for membership from the following named physicians, and report favorably upon the same. The committee has been informed that other names will be submitted for its approval during the sessions of the convention: Drs. William T. Cathell, J. M. Magraw, W. E. Magruder, Amanda Taylor Norris, Charles C. Shippen, William H. Welch and Thomas P. McCormick. Respectfully submitted, April 27, 1886. S. C. CHEW, M. D.. Chairman. EASTERN SHORE. The Board of Examiners for Eastern Shore report favorably upon the application of Dr. James K. II. Jacobs. Respectfully submitted, G. T. ATKINSON, M. D., April 27, 1886. Chairman. REPORT OF LIBRARY COMMITTEE. The Library Committee has the honor to report very decided progress in the important trust under its control. The lease of the present library rooms, commodious, convenient and admirably adapted to the requirements of the Faculty, has at once placed the library upon a footing that establishes its importance to our community, and that enables its directors to demand a more liberal recognition of its merits and claims than have heretofore been accorded. It has always been the hope of your Library Committee that the time would come when the branch of the Faculty's interests under their control would form the strongest of the many bonds that hold firmly together our venerable organization. This hope seems about to be realized, and what has always been the sentiment and desire of many bids fair to speedily become the fixed conviction of all. A very justifiable objection to entrust the Library with valuable donations heretofore has been the evident lack of security offered for the protection and preservation of books, and other valuable material. By the change of location this objection has been met, as has been shown by the decided increase in the number and character of donations from members and others. The total number of volumes now upon our shelves is 5,000; of these 830 were added during the past year. In addition to these there have been added a considerable number of unbound volumes. Of the bound volumes 100 were added by the committee as bound journals, and 9 by purchase; 21 were loaned by the Academy of Medicine, and 40 were received in exchange. Of the remainder there were received from Dr. John Morris, 133 volumes; Dr. J. J. Chisolm, 85; Dr. W. A. Magruder (Olney), 76; Dr. G. Lane Taneyhill, 69; Dr. E. F. Cordell, 53; Dr. Frank Donaldson, 37; Dr. I. E. Atkinson, 33; Dr. Joseph T. Smith, 20; Dr. A. F. Grish, 16; Dr. A. B. Arnold, 13; Dr. B. B. Browne, 13; American Ophthalmo Society, 12; New York Academy of Medicine, 10; Baltimore Health Department, 8; West Virginia Medical Society, 6; Wisconsin State Board of Health, 6; Wisconsin State Medical Society, 3; Smithsonian Institute, 2; Bureau of Education, 2; American Otological Society, 4; Rhode Island Medical Society, 2; Iowa State Board of Health, 2; Surgeon-General Marine Hospital Service, 2; Surgeon-General, U. S. A., 1; Johns Hopkins University, 1; Dr. G. W. Archer, 10; Dr. A. Friedenwald, 8; Dr. J. E. Michael, 7; Dr. W. P. Morgan, 5; Dr. A. C. Pole, 5; Dr. T. A. Ashby, 4; Dr. T. S. Latimer, 2; Dr. R. Winslow, 2; Dr. S. Theobald, 2; Dr. W. R. Munroe, 2; Dr. John N. Mackenzie, 2; Dr. L. E. Neale, 1; Dr. D. W. Cathell, 1. Two packages of medical theses have been received from the University of Strasburg, and the same number from the University of Leyden. A series of the Diplomatic Review has been received from the publishers in London, conditional upon its being bound. A number of valuable portraits of former members of the Faculty and others has been received through various sources. Pamphlets and odd journals have been donated by Drs. F. Donaldson, G. W. Archer, A. F. Erich, William A. Magruder, John Morris and E. F. Cordell. Among the donations are a number of valuable and rare works. Members are again reminded of the very great importance of presenting to the Library all odd numbers of journals, pamphlets, etc., that they would otherwise burn or throw away. Many incomplete volumes may thus be made complete and placed upon our shelves. Sixty-two journals are now regularly received, viz.: 1 semi-annual, 5 quarterly, 3 bi-monthly, 29 monthly, 3 semi-monthly, 17 weekly, 2 tri-weekly, 2 unknown (Swedish). Of these journals there are 37 American, 10 British, 7 German, 6 French, and 2 Swedish. A number of valuable periodicals, transactions, etc., are regularly received in exchange for our own transactions. The number of these exchanges is constantly increasing, and the hope is indulged that the growing importance of our publications will annually swell this list. An arrangement has been made through the conjoined action of the Executive Committee and your com |