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had reports, I think, covering either of the above periods.
A fee bill was adopted, and another petition was sent to the Legislature praying for the appointment of a commissioner of lunacy. In 1859 Dr. Coventry reviewed the works of Drs. Forbes and Bigelow, on nature and art in the cure of disease. The society or- dered its publication, and in January, 1860, three hundred copies were ready for distribution. Arba Blair, President of the Society, and one of the ori- ginal founders, from the infirmities of age, being unable to attend the anniversary meeting, present- ed several ancient works on medicine, to be pro- served by the Society, as exhibiting by contrast the improvements made in the art of book-making, as well as in the science of medicine and surgery. July, 1861, another resolution and petition to the Legislature for the appointment of a commissioner of lunacy, to inquire into the condition of the in- sane confined in the poor houses and jails, was presented by Dr. Coventry. The committee re- ported in 1862 that circulars had been sent to most of the county societies, and many petitions sent to the Legislature, and at the semi-annual meeting in 1864 the medical men of the county signed a peti- tion from this county, which was followed by the passage of the bill soon after.
In 1864 it was proposed to divide the life of the Society into five periods of ten years each. The first period was given to Drs. McCall and Whaley, the second to C. B. and W. B. Coventry, the third
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to Chas. and F. M. Barrows, the fourth to Dr. Tho- mas, and the fifth to Dr. Bagg. The duties as- signed, were for the gentlemen named, to prepare notices of all the members who had died in each period, whose biographies had not been written.
By resolution, the fees for medical services were increased one hundred per cent. It will only be necessary to refer to the increased expense of liv- ing, caused by the calamities of the civil war, which then threatened the life of the nation, to give good reason for the increased value of medical services. Fifty certificates of membership were reported by the committee. They were copied from the first is- sue, which was on parchment, with the portrait of the head of John Hunter. Amount in treasury, $83.26.
In 1865 the attendance still continued large in comparison with the past, and the collections in- creased in a corresponding degree. Dr. Coventry's essay on Tuberculosis was ordered to be published, and 300 copies were ready for distribution.
At the semi-annual meeting, January 9, 1866, the prevalence of influenza attracted the attention of the Society. It was considered the harbinger of severe epidemic disease, which seemed proved by its advent in December, 1831, and had preceded the advent of all the severe epidemic diseases since the cholera of 1832. We have no means to determine now how such atmospheric conditions may have operated long before this period. Resolutions were reported touching the services of Dr. Walter
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B. Coventry in the army, and the promise he had given of future eminence in his profession.
At the annual meeting, in 1867, the Presideut gave an address on the founding and development of the first hospitals of the United States. Dr. Gray generously proposed to publish the address in the Journal of Insanity, and give the Society one hundred copies. His offer was accepted, the address was published and distributed to the sev- eral members of the county.
A semi-annual meeting of 1868 was called to or- der, and the deaths of Drs. J. McCall and N. H. Dering were announced, and appropriate measures taken to give them a fitting place in the annals of medicine. Dr. McCall, through a long life, had been one of the leading men in the Society, by his firmness and decision guarding its interests, and with zealous ambition striving to give it rank and consideration among men. Dr. Dering, with a shorter life among us, had lent his enthusiasm for the medical profession to aid the Society in hold- ing the rank it had obtained among the societies of the State.
At the annual meeting Dr. Bagg gave his eulogy on Dr. Dering, and C. B. Coventry on the life and character of Dr. McCall. The President, Dr. Guit- eau, gave an address on the influences produced by the early settlements of a country, and the effects which civilization has over the vital forces of the human family.
The subject of quarterly meetings was again
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called up, and a resolution offered to hold them the second Tuesday of January, April, July and Octo- ber. This resolution was laid over to the semi- annual meeting in 1869.
At this meeting the resolution became a law of the Society, and the first quarterly meeting was fixed for April 12th, to be held in Utica.
At the annual meeting, July 13th, 1869, a com- mittee was appointed to examine and report the standing of applicants for admission to member- ship. But little care had been taken for several years of the acquirements and standing of persons admitted to membership, and the committee re- ported the following : "That applicants be required to file in the County Clerk's office their diplomas, before presenting themselves for membership."
At the second quarterly meeting, held October 11th, 1869, resolutions were passed condemning the criminal acts of the abortionist. Really there was no discussion on the questions involved in the resolution, for a crime so abhorrent to the best feelings of human nature could have no advocates in a society of high-minded medical men, zealous to maintain the purity of the profession.
At the semi-annual meeting in 1870, January 11th, the deaths of the brothers Drs. H. and G. Pope were brought to the notice of the Society. They had both died of the same disease-hypertro phy of the prostate. Resolutions were passed commemorating the positions they had held in the practice of medicine.
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At the quarterly meeting held the 11th of April, the amended fee bill was passed, and one of the members expelled for immoral conduet.
The semi-annual meeting in 1871, January 10th, could claim unusual interest, for one of the veter- ans of the Society, whose name graced the roll of the first meeting and the founding of the Society- now the only survivor, ninety-one years old, came to meet with the Society once more before being called to his never-ending home. Time had touched him lightly, for after the seventy years since he he- gan the practice of his profession, he showed few signs of such a life of toil and exposure.
The quarterly meeting this year, in October, took up the subject recommended by the American Med- ical Association, and resolved to use its influence to have half free scholarships in the New York College of Veterinary Surgeons.
At the semi-annual meeting of 1872, delegates to the American Medical Association were instruct- ed to vote for the admission of women, properly qualified in the profession, to membership.
At the quarterly meeting in April Dr. Flandrau reported a case of delirium tremens from the use of hydrate of chloral.
Dr. Gray, at the annual meeting, invited the So- ciety to hold its next quarterly meeting at the Lu- natic Asylum, which was accepted, and the mem- bers of the Society, at the October meeting, after organizing, adjourned to the Asylum. The mem- bers were conducted through many of the wards of
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the institution, saw Professor Dick's demonstra- tions of morbid anatomy, Kempster's microscopic specimens, and closed the labors of the day by get- ting fresh supplies of the necessaries of life from a table of large dimensions and magnificent supplies. Through the Doctor's exertions the meeting had been a novel and interesting one, and the members did not fail to give public expression in the records of the Society of the gratification they had re- ceived.
Resolutions were offered and freely discussed at the semi-annual meeting in January, 1873, asking for an amendment of the Code of Medical Ethics, so as to allow medical men to meet all practitioners who had been educated in schools recognized by the laws of the State. This proposition seemed to many who had not carefully examined the subject, a striking innovation on the usages of the Society, and it was finally laid on the table. In April, a resolution bearing on the same question, met the same fate.
As a rule, I have confined myself, in this history, to notice only those measures which had finally been adopted, leaving questions which had been proposed, but not adopted, unnoticed. This case proposed a measure which had been thoroughly examined in my investigations for the benefit of the Society. I have been for a long time satisfied that a change must be made, and wished this Society to have the honor of being a leading power in the transaction. I do not wish to urge the Society to
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rashly make a change, and this is not the proper place to bring forward arguments in behalf of the proposed measure. When it becomes an estab- lished fact, it will then belong to the history of the Society.
In 1873 the State Society reported in favor of a committee on hygiene in every county of the State. At the semi-annual meeting in 1874, the committee made a partial report and were continued for far. ther investigations. This committee in 1875 were directed to present a petition to the Common Council of the city of Utica, asking for large sewers in the eastern part of the city and another in the western, which the Council had the good sense to adopt.
In 1875, charges were made against a member for violations of the Code of Ethics, in publishing no- tices in a daily paper, and in circulars distributed in the surrounding villages, promising marvelous cures. The author was expelled from the Society. At the quarterly meeting in October, a series of resolutions were received from the New York So- ciety, relating to the law of the State to prevent cruelty to animals, which declared that nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit or interfere with any properly conducted scientific experiments or investigations. It was the sense of this meet- ing that the investigations in physiology and path- ology, by experiments on animals, had been of incalculable benefit to the science of medicine, and that they had been so managed as to be almost en-
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tirely devoid of suffering to the animals so used, and that no investigations could be allowed by un- professional men, who were not qualified to ex- amine the methods used, nor understand the results to be obtained.
The large increase in the population of the county and the multiplied interests of the pro- fession have now made our quarterly meetings equal, in the regular attendance, to the annual and semi-annual of former days. At the quarterly meeting, April, 1876, thirty members responded to the call, and the record of the regular attendance is sufficient proof of the interest taken by the members of the Society. Three prominent men in the Society had recently died-Dr. Bissell, Dr. Preston and Dr. Coventry. Dr. Bissell was an energetic, stirring man, prompt and decided, a good practitioner, and disposed to mingle in politics. Dr. Preston, in his early life, held a good and fair position among medical men, and was a popular practitioner in Sangerfield and Waterville. Dr. Coventry was too well and widely known to re- quire more than a passing notice here. His contri- butions to the literature of the profession have been large, and, with his report on the medical jurisprudence of insanity, delivered at the Ameri- can Medical Association at Washington in 1858, has given him rank as an able writer. The resolutions of the city physicians and those of the County So- ciety, with its memorial notice, attest his worth.
Grouped in the same catalogue, we have to
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notice the death of Dr. John McCall, one of the zealous members of the Society, who was a living example of professional dignity and honor; of Goodsell, Blair, Guiteau, Whaley, Sampson, Alex- ander Coventry, N. H. Dering and many others whose names have given character to the profession in Oneida County. I would gladly enlarge, did time and space permit. Most of them have their records in the transactions of the State Society, where their histories have been preserved, and where all that is worthy of imitation or that could aid us in the struggles of professional life can be found to help us onward.
1876 finds the Society with its regular meetings, its interesting topics of hygiene and disease, but nothing notable in the passing events of the pro- fession. During the year of 1877 there does not appear to have been any falling off of the attend- ance at the meetings, and there has been a more regular and increased interest among its members, and the quarterlies of April and October were equally well attended with the January and July meetings.
We have now gone over the history of this So- ciety from its organization in 1806 to the present time, 1878. We have endeavored to reproduce as little as possible of the narratives of Drs. Bagg and Porter They have both gone over the records to the year 1870, and in order to keep up a con- nected history, I have often had to trespass upon their details and blend the three histories into one. They have left tables of attendance and receipt -.
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and from those two sources we have judged of the prosperity of the Society. These tables covered the periods when we had only two meetings a year. The average attendance from 1843 to 1850 was 16, and from 1836 to 1843 about the same. From 1829 to 1836, 34, and from 1822 to 1839, 24. From 1850 to 1857, about 18. From 1857 to 1864, a fraction over 24, and the next seven years, is about 35. A new era dates from the beginning of the quarterlies in 1869, and the average is a fraction over 22 at each meeting, showing a marked increase in attendance per annum. An attempt had been made to have quarterly meetings as early as 1843 or 1844, but there was not enthusiasm enough to keep them up, and the failure was so decided that many members who had been engaged in the first effort were at first unwilling to engage in the proposed change. The first quarterly was held in April, and the large at- tendance and interest manifested in the proceed- ings, gave promise of a fair measure of success.
The item of receipts has been an important ele- ment in the Society-the index of its growth and decline. No regular reports were made by the Treasurer until 1822. From that time his accounts were regularly presented and examined, and the amounts he had received yearly, carefully recorded until 1855, when there was an interruption of ten years, or until 1865.
Front 1822 to '29, average receipts $117 per annum.
From 1829 to '35, 66
80
66
From 1835 to '42, 66
58 66
From 1842 to '49, 66 66 35 66
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The records of the Treasurer have been lost, and as the Secretary failed in his reports to name the amount collected, we are not able to give the yearly amounts received. It will be seen that for a few years after the regular reports of the Treasurer were made to the Society, the amount annually re- ceived was large,-one year being $159 and one $184, so that the seven years' average was over $117. The next seven years it declined to $58, and ran down to a mere trifle in 1849. One reason for the large amounts from 1822 forward, was the income from fines and giving diplomas. It is in- teresting to note that as the Society grew remiss in collecting its dues, and repealed one after another of its sources of revenue, the attendance declined, and, with its declension, professional interest and enthusiasm were lost. When reaching its lowest ebb, with an empty treasury, bills unpaid, and a scanty attendance, there was but one step more to dissolution, and the prestige of the Medical Society of the County of Oneida would be lost forever. Efforts were made to meet this unfortunate con- dition, and to bring the Society back to its normal state; but appeals were useless. Like many tot- tering institutions, the first great need was money. To obtain this, a new order of management was necessary, and a change in the Treasurer's depart- ment, when enforced payment of the taxes (for all other sources of revenue had been cut off') wa- made the law, and in a few years, with a replen- ished treasury and increased interest and attend-
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ance, the Society started on a career of prosperity that has rivaled the most sanguine expectations of its palmy days.
We have now traversed the records of seventy- two years of this Society's history. For forty-six years I have taken a more or less active part in its transactions. During that time I have joined with its prominent and leading members in a warfare for its preservation, and in spite of all difficulties, to so manage its manifold interests that it might hold a prominent position and have no rival in the so- cieties of the State. It has been the source of many important measures in the science of medi- cine. It has had a few leading men in its ranks who sought to build up the profession, and were ready to make sacrifices for the welfare of the whole. No association can last long, whose mem- bers surrender its interests to the cravings of per- sonal ambition. A standard has been raised and adopted, fixing the remuneration for medical ser- vices, and it is the duty of every member to sustain its prices. But when men who claim to be in full communion in such association, seek and obtain business (from those abundantly able to pay) by agreeing to a reduced percentage on the regular prices of the Society, the binding cohesion of time- honored principles has been outraged, and the honor and dignity of a noble profession has been lost in the groveling acquisitions of individual avarice.
To elevate its character and the character of its
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members, it has purged itself from the stain of un- bridled passion, the criminal actors of anti-natal murder, and the selfish pursuits of the charlatan and nostrum vender.
I have annexed a table of the names of the members and the dates of their admission to men- bership. Most of them who have died, have had eulogies prepared under the direction of the State Society, whilst others have had fitting memorials recorded in the annals of the County Association. It is always easy to look back and see what might have been done. A wise management of the finances of the Society, more stringent laws, and a continued imposition of fines for neglected duties, with a larger annual tax, if necessary, would have vielded a revenue which could have been used for founding a Medical Hall, for the use of the So- ciety,-a fit place for holding its meetings, to pre- serve its addresses and dissertations, its varied col- lections in Pathological Anatomy, its library, its records, and all that would give it interest in the eyes of the profession. Had such a plan been or- ganized, and a pains-taking effort been instituted to accomplish this object, men of means in our profession, and friends of the vocation, might have felt it their duty to give material aid to a move- ment that was destined to accomplish so much good. I have on a former occasion alluded to a similar plan, but it fell lifeless to the ground ; and for the future, I can see no chance for such an action to be set forward, unless some of the physicians who
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have been blessed with a grand patrimony, or others whose resources have brought them gold in untold measure, can fall into the current of im- provement, and, with cheerful heart, give to the founding of an institution whose blessings will last for all coming time. If we could catch the enthu- siasm that has moved the Free Masons to found and maintain their halls for public services, or the no less noble organization of Odd Fellows, and others of a kindred nature, where the spell or enchant- ment of secret rites has been powerful enough to bring forth gold to lavish in adorning halls and in gaudy vestments and the various orders of those institutions, we might have filled the picture I have thus unskilfully drawn.
I have now discharged the duty imposed on me by the resolution of this Society, in July, 1877. My labors in the interest of this Society have been faithfully discharged. Since my admission to membership in 1832, age has in some measure di- minished the enthusiasm of those early years, and the sad realities of professional life have thrown a dark shadow over the glowing prospects of youth- ful ambition.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
July, 1850-One hundred and eighty-seven volumes in the Library. Of these, sixty-one are bound periodicals.
1848. onward, a period of great depression in receipts and attendanee.
1851-$1.93 in the treasury, and bills to a large amount outstanding.
In 1853-Resolution passed, asking the Secretary to send special notices to each practising physician, of every meeting. D. G. Thomas elected Treasurer. Sued four doctors witliin a week.
1853-Law amended so as to give same number of dele- gates to State Society as we have members of the Legis- lature.
1855-Funds inereased and By-Laws printed.
January 8, 1856-Resolved to hold semi-centennial celebration. Committee of Arrangements, Drs. Thomas, McCall, Dering, Goodsell, Coventry, Guiteau, Blair and Beach. Held July 8.
1858-Motion to make a Fee bill. Carried, and the one reported adopted.
1860-Commissioner ot Lunacy. July, committee ap- pointed. C. B. Coventry, Bissell and Guiteau.
1861-Committee on Commissioner of Lunaey was con- tinued, not being ready to report. Did report at annual meeting in July, with a petition to the State Legislature.
1862-Circulars sent by Committee on Commissioner of Lunacy to the Medical Society of the State, and petition presented to the Legislature.
1864-Members signed petition to Legislature for a Cominissioner of Lunacy. A new order for certificates of membership.
1865-More members taken for Commissioners of Lunaey.
1868-Quarterly meeting appointed.
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LIST OF MEMBERS THAT MET AT ROME, JULY 1, 1806.
Amos G. Hull,
Alexander Whaley,
Sewal Hopkins,
Morris Sherman,
David Hasbrouck,
Paul Hutchinson,
Seth Hastings, Jr.,
Elephas Bissell,
Caleb Sampson,
Seth Capron,
Francis Guiteau,
Daniel Avery,
Matthew Brown, Jr.,
John Fitch,
Welcome Sayles,
Enoch Alden,
Elnathan Judd,
Stephen Preston,
Sherman Bartholomew,
Arba Blair,
Marcus Hitchcock,
Isaac Weston,
Thomas Hartwell,
Lurens Hull,
Zenas Hutchinson,
Thomas G. Hooker, Norton Porter, Seth Hastings,
Samuel Frisbee.
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MEMBERS, WITH DATE OF ADMISSION,
FROM 180G TO THE PRESENT TIME.
September 2, 1806-Solomon Wolcott, Nathaniel Rose, Isaac Goodsell, Ferris Deming, Levi Bills, Lucius Kellogg, Sylvester Nash, Joel Rathbone, Joshua Ransom.
December 4, 1806-Chester Gaylord, James Tyler.
July 8, 1807-Andrew French, Luther Gniteau, Samuel Snow, Chester Gaylord, W. W. Wadsworth, Spalding Prince.
January 12, 1808-Christian Storkman.
July 5, 1808-Amasa Trowbridge, Henry Smith.
August 13, 1809-William Fitch.
July 6, 1813-Isaac Cushman, Ira Cross, Erastus Cross. Lemuel Chester, Ezra Williams, Nathaniel Cheever.
September 14, 1813-Lewis Riggs, Campbell Waldo. December 17, 1813-D. Campbell.
January 6, 1814-John M. Watson, Charles Babcock. R. P. Thayer, Wilbnr Tillinghast, Josiah Noyes.
March 29, 1814-Benjamin Russell,
May 19-Merrill Wright, licensed.
May 20-Peter B. Bessey, licensed.
July 5-Daniel Barker, David M. Hale.
September 5, 1815-Leverett Bishop, licensed ; Medina Preston, licensed ; Eleashib Adams, licensed.
September 27-Anson Hayden, licensed.
December 26-W. M. Coventry.
March 6, 1816-John Young, Morris T. Jewell, I. B. Burton, Henry C. Hecox, licensed.
July 1, 1817-Abram Parker, Lyman Huntly, Leveret Bishop. Thomas Goodsell.
September 13-John Brown, licensed.
January 6, 1818-J. B. Paliner.
July 7-Jotham Snow, Rensen : Einery Bissell, Paris ; Moses Bristol, Paris ; Silas West, Paris ; Ariel Norton, Vernon.
January 5, 1819-George Brown.
July 6-David M. Richards.
July 4, 1820-Seth S. Peck, Luther Spalding, U. II. Kellogg.
September 5 -- Anson Jones, licensed.
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January 1, 1822-Alexander Coventry, John McCall, Theodore Pomeroy, Edmund Allen.
July 21-Medina Preston, L. Z. Havens, John F. Trow- bridge, Hezekiah Gates.
September 25, 1822-Benjamin M. Root, licensed.
January 7, 1823-W. B. Page, licensed.
July 1-Stephen Winchester, Alnon Beardsley, Abram Chase, Abram Dietendorff, Levi Buckingham, John S. Lawrence, Curtis Havens.
July 6, 1824-Samuel Beach, James Douglass, Robert C. Wood, William Jones, Samuel Tuttle, T. L. Mills.
January 4, 1825-Horatio Gates, Levi Beardsley.
July 5-G. P. Judd, C. B. Coventry, Edward Aikin, Isaac Freeman, Herbert Hastings, Newell Smith.
January 3, 1826-Welcome A. Clark, W. P. Cleveland, licensed.
July 4-John A. Paine, John Stevens, Hucker Storrs, Caleb Burge.
January 2, 1827-Benjamin Crossman, Luther Guiteau, Dr. Harral.
January 1, 1828-F. B. Henderson, Samuel Boomer, O. L. B. Main, A. McAllister.
July 1-Benjamin Earl Bowen, licensed ; Patrick Mc- Craith, P. B. Peckham, Covel Lee, George H. Wright, David Elv, Ezra Watson, J. P. Batchelder, Eli Botsford, Jeremiah Knight, Parker Sedgewick, R. W. Smith, licensed.
July 7, 1829-J. N. Meacham, Alfred Gillett, J. D. Bancroft, Thomas M. Foot, Ralph Lord, Nathaniel Sher- rell, Charles Porter, John Gridley, R. S. Sykes, William Abell.
January 5, 1830-Elijah Ward, Nathan North, Marcus Hitchcock, II. H. Pope.
July-Isaac H. Douglass, W. S. Lobdell, William C. Warner, J. W. Fitch, Warner Wadsworth, J. W. Ilitch- cock.
July, 1831-Abram Ward Marsh, Rufus Priest, Lewis Yale, H. F. Noyes.
January 3, 1832-HI. L. Ruggles, licensed.
July 3 -- - Van Zandt, G. W. Gardner, Edward Loomis, James Whaley, George Cleaveland, licensed.
January 1, 1833 -- Reuben Luce, Ichabod Davis, Wal- ton Hazzard Peckham.
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July 2-S. W. Stewart, W. W. Tefft, Williamn Giles, D. V. Bradford.
January 3, 1832-Asahael Grant, James S. Douglass, S. L. Benjamin, Daniel G. Thomas, Aaron B. Blye, Jolin Statts, J. M. Fuller, E. G. Mygatt, E. C Cadwell.
January 7, 1834 -- S. H. Blossom, L. F. Harvey. July 1-E. A. Munger, - - Fitch, -
Howes, Josiah Rathbone, Daniel Brandt, A. P. Laird.
January 6, 1835 -- David Larabee, J. B. Mckibben, G. W. Pope.
July 7-Lyman Buckley, J. B. Colwell, William Kirk- wood, Charles Barrows, G. J. Sheldou.
January 5, 1836-R. S. Sears, J. P'. Newlaud.
January 3, 1837 -- Almon Pitcher.
July 4-E. G. Peckham, B. Budlong, Phineas Hart, li- censed ; Asaplı Rhodes, licensed ; J. L. Kellogg, liceused. July, 1838-J. V. Cobb, W. H. Davis.
January 1, 1839-W. H. Wiser, - Kneesburne.
July 2-Drs. Brock McVicar, Beach. Botsford, Trow- bridge.
January 7, 1840 -- J. S. May.
January 5, 1841-Ohinstead, King.
July 6-Trap, Hurlburt, M. M. Bagg, J. L. Kellogg, Teller, Hamilton.
July 5-P. M. Hastings, D. C. Hamilton.
January 3, 1843 -- W. A. Babcock, Amariah Brigham, made a member by the acts of the Society.
July 2, 1844-Drummond, Moulton.
July 1, 1845-J. W. Harmon.
July 6, 1846-F. M. Barrows.
July 6, 1847-J. H. Champion, N. H. Dering.
January 9, 1849 -- D. P. Bissell.
July 10-Hunt.
January 4, 1851-S. G. Wolcott, Harvard University : Ulric Burk, graduated at Edinbury ; B. Phileo.
January 13, 1×52-G. W. Pope, Jr.
July 13-A. D. Churchill.
January 10, 1854-D. C. Dewey.
January 9, 1855-H. N. Porter, J. Sturdevant, T. M. Flandreau, Hunt, Thayer.
July 10-A. S. Copeman, honorary member.
January 8, 1856 -- William Russell. Thomas Spear, Rose, Cornish, Brown.
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July 8-J. P. Gray, W. H. Gardner.
January 13, 1857-Brown, Frazier, Gillett, Valentine, McAllister.
July 14-A. Brower, C. K. I. Millard.
January 12, 1851-Huntley.
July 13-W. B. Coventry, J. E. Jones, S. B. Valentine, W. R. Griswold.
January 11, 1359 -- T. S. Virgil, E. J. Lawton, H. W. Carpenter.
July 12-C. L. Hogeboom, T. W. Wall, J. D. Hall, I. D. Hopkins, D. Terry, E. C. Bass.
January 10, 1860 -- C E. Smith, Thomas Pell.
July 10-A. Putnam, H. B. Day.
January 14, 1862 -- A. S. Brower, H. L. Williams.
July 1-M. C. West.
January 13, 1863-A. A: Barrows.
July 14-A. Churchill, L. A. Tourtellot, Walter Booth, Edwin Hutchinson.
January 12, 1864 -- Charles H. Pegg, Isaac J. Hunt.
July 12-Bickford, Day, O. M. Rindel.
July 11, 1865 -- C. C Reed, S. E. Shantee, R. M. Booth, E. G. Williams, Medina Preston, Jr., W. M. James, Francis Jones, Jr.
July 10, 1866-C. H. Hamlin, H. W. Caldwell, R. L. Dryer, Hugh Sloan, F. E Hutchinson, E. G. Howland, J. M. Cleveland, A. O. Kellogg, J. W. Cooper, C. N. Palmer, J. C. Darling, Norton Wolcott, R. E. Sutton.
January 8, 1867-Matthias Cook, F. G. Dubois, Benja- min F. Pope.
July 9-C. N. Palmer, Fisk, J. A. Jenkins. Members
present, 44.
January 14, 1868-T. J. Bergen.
July 14 -- A. C. McKnight, W. M. Baldwin.
January 13, 1869 -- Wales Buell.
April 13 -- J. B. Andrews, Walter Kempster, W. H. Nelson.
July 13-E. H. Thurston, H. C. Palmer, Albert Bar- num.
January 12, 1870 -- H. G. Read.
April 12-Charles H. Bailey.
July-Charles B. Tefft.
January 10, 1871-George Leroy Menzee, Edward Brayton.
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April 10-J. K. Chamberlayne, G. H. Wheelock, W. M. James.
October 10-S. P. Uhlein.
January 8, 1872-Daniel H. Kitchen.
July 12-P. II. Thomas.
October 7-J. G. Hnnt.
April 8, 1873-Martin Cavana, Whitwell.
July 8-Smith Baker.
October 14-B. F. Haskins, W. E. Ford, A. T. Living- stone.
April 14, 1874-Charles E. Frazier, C. P. Russell, W. B. Palmer, R. II. Hewse.
July 14-E. H. Bullock, E. E. Smith.
October 14-F. Steinhaussen, J. B. Drummond, J. B.
Nold, David Besser, James Hemstreet.
January 12, 175 -- William Kenlin, David Bessee, G. A. Stockwell.
April 13-David Hughes, A. R. Simmons.
October 13-William Clark, A. P. Maius.
January 11, 1876-E. W. Rayner.
July 11 -- H. A. Ford, Wilbur H. Booth.
April 11, 1877-John Watson, George Seymour, J. S.
O'Hara, J. V. Haberer.
October 13-H, B. Maben.
1878 -- L. F. Rinkle.
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