tion, and an entrance examination requiring a knowledge of Composition, Latin, Physics, and Higher Arithmetic. You will perceive that this curriculum, if enforced and lived up to by the colleges, will be a material improvement upon tho curriculum of a vast majority of the colleges of the present day. Permit me to state that the spirit of the convention was decidedly in favor of a higher standard of medical education in this country. Our platform received the indorsement of the " American

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... " at its session the following morning. It will receive the hearty approval of the various State Boards of Health that have medical laws. The new association is inaugurated under a different environment than the old association that went to pieces ten years ago ; and we believe that, with the strong moral support of a few of your leading journals, this Association will shortly become a potent factor in inaugurating a substantial improvement over tho present lax methods of medical education in the United States. The following is a list of the officers of the Association : President, N. S. Davis, M.D., LL.D., Chicago, 111.; 1st of Training-School for Nurses, etc. 1889.