Drs. Lehlbach, Ryerson and Wickes were appointed a Committee to inquire into the expediency of making any changes in the order of business. They subsequently reported that they would recommend the following changes, and would propose the same as an amendment to the By-Laws:

Chap. 1, Sec. IV. Order of Business: Change 3d order to the 4th; 4th order to the 3d; 6th order to the 9th; 9th order to the 6th; 8th order to the 10th; 11th order to the 8th; 10th order to the 11th.

The Nominating Committee reported as follows:

For President--Wm. Pierson, Orange.

For 1st Vice-President-T. F. Cullen, Camden.

For 2d Vice-President-C. Hasbrouck, Hackensack.
For 3d Vice-President--Franklin Gauntt, Burlington.
Corresponding Secretary—C. F. J. Lehlbach.

Recording Secretary--Wm. Pierson, Jr.

Treasurer-H. R. Baldwin.

Standing Committee--S. Wickes, J. Woolverton and J. E. Culver.

Delegates to the American Medical Association-A. S. Burdett, J. Howard Pugh, R. M. Cooper, S. G. Cattell, I. A. Nichols, J. W. Hunt, S. Lilly, W. W. L. Phillips, E. M. Hunt, H. G. Cook, R. J. Whitely, Jonathan Havens, E. Byington, H. C. Clark, Wm. A. Newell, G. Grant.

Delegates to the Medical Society of Connecticut-T. Ryerson, T. M. Wright, L. C. Cook.

Delegates to the Medical Society of New York-Wm. Elmer, T. R. Varick and J. V. Cross.

Delegates to the Medical Society of Massachusetts-A. W. Woodhull, J. J. H. Love and C. S. Van Riper.

Delegates to the Medical Society of Pennsylvania-S. C. Thornton, D. Warman and James M. Ridge.

Delegates to the Medical Society of Ohio-C. Hodge, Jr., B. H. Stratton, and O. H. Sproul.

Delegates to the Medical Society of Rhode Island-W. H. Coleman, J. C. Johnson, H. L. Hammond and G. W Talson.

Delegates to the Medical Society of Vermont-J. D. Brumley, C. H. Voorhis, J. L. Bodine.

The Committee recommended that the next annual meeting of the Society be held in Trenton.

The report was accepted and the recommendation adopted. A ballot was taken, when the ticket as reported by the Committee was declared duly elected, Drs. Hunt and Baldwin acting as tellers.

The delegates, as named by the Committee, were appointed.

Dr. Varick extended an invitation to the Society to meet at his residence this evening, socially.

Dr. Hart, of New York, presented the Society with a copy of the Transactions of the Medical Society of New York for 1868. A vote of thanks was extended to him for the same. The President appointed Drs. Freeze, Hodge and Coleman a Committee of Arrangements for the next annual meeting; also Dr. Edgar Holden, of Newark, as Essayist.

The thanks of the Society were voted to the Committee of Arrangements for the efficient manner in which they have discharged their duties; and also to the Common Council of Jersey City, for the free use of their Chamber.

The Society then adjourned, to meet at Trenton on the fourth Tuesday in May, 1870.

WM. PIERSON, JR.,
Recording Secretary.

REPORTS OF DELEGATES TO OTHER SOCIETIES.

As one of the delegates appointed to the State Medical Society of Rhode Island, I most respectfully report that I attended the last annual meeting, held in Providence, R. I. In addition to a very large number present from the different counties of the State, there were an unusual number of delegates from the other sister Societies. Dr. Eldridge, a delegate to our last meeting from their Society, gave a very interesting and complimentary report of his visit to this Society. In that report, he spoke in favorable terms of one distinctive feature of this Society, viz.: the appointment of a Standing Committee. He introduced a resolution, and it was adopted, to establish this feature in their Society. Dr. George Mason, of Providence, read a very interesting paper on the diseases. of the nervous system. The State Society of Rhode Island expresses to this Society her congratulations, and trusts that this Society will continue to send representatives to theirs, as last year was the first that this Society has seen fit to appoint delegates to their annual meeting.

H. L. HAMMOND, M. D.,

Delegate to Rhode Island State Society.

The undersigned having been the only delegate from the New Jersey State Medical Society, in attendance at the meeting of the Pennsylvania State Society, would report, that the

19th annual session of that Society convened at Harrisburg, in the Hall of the House of Representatives, on Wednesday afternoon, June 10th, 1868. Your delegate received a cordial welcome, both officially and personally, from the members of that body. The attendance was large from all parts of the State, and the proceedings evinced an earnest desire to maintain and extend the dignity and usefulness of the profession. Interesting reports were read from the different county Societies, and important questions relating to the legal regulations for the insane,-to the status of Female Doctors or "Doctresses,”—to the responsibilities of physicians in the use of stimulants, to the various social, civil and medical aspects of intoxication from alcohol and opium, and to indecent publications and their pernicious effects,-were brought before the Society and ably discussed by the members.

The sojourn of the delegates was rendered peculiarly agreeable by the untiring efforts of the Committee of Arrangements, and by the generous hospitality of the Dauphin County Medical Society, whose guests they were. The Governor of the State also gave them a sumptuous entertainment at the executive mansion, and on the last day of the session, they visited the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Asylum, by invitation of the worthy Superintendent, Dr. Curwen, and were delighted with the efficiency and order which appear in every department, and contribute so much to alleviate the mental and physical condition of the inmates.

The next annual meeting of their Society will be held in the city of Erie, June 9, 1869.

Respectfully submitted, by

WILLIAM ELMER,

Delegate.

ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT.

Gentlemen of the Medical Society of New Jersey :

With heart-felt gratification do I meet and greet you on this anniversary occasion. As the humble devotee looks anxiously forward to the good which he shall obtain and the pleasure he shall derive from the pilgrimage to his beloved Mecca, so do we look forward to these annual reunions with pleasant anticipations. To me, at least, this is a festal season, in which joy abounds and pleasure is triumphant. Although the primary object of assembling ourselves together, is to advance and elevate the standard of Medical Science, and by consultation and interchange of views, qualify ourselves for greater usefulness in our professional work; still the renewing of old friendships and the formation of new, with the satisfaction of social intercourse, which these occasions supply, make these annual meetings a fruitful source of pleasure and happiness, in anticipation, realization and retrospection.

Nor are these meetings productive of enjoyment only, but also of very great usefulness. Who can doubt that in the freedom of colloquial converse with our fellow practitioners, we gain many new and useful ideas, which would not be imparted by learned treatises and grave dissertations? As "iron sharpeneth iron," so does such free intercourse, unrestrained by formality, prove of reciprocal advantage, each receiving and imparting knowledge to the other, which will eventually inure to the advantage of those whom disease may prostrate and pain afflict.