new quarters at an early date and the building will also be used as a meeting place for the local medical societies. A cut of the building is published in the Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery, 1904, xvi, p. 203.

The medical profession of Lancaster County, Nebraska, has subscribed over $500 for the further development of the Library of the Nebraska State Medical Society. In the Western Medical Review (1904, ix, pp. 273-275), the librarian, Dr. H. W. Orr, contributes a sketch of the library which now contains about 1,000 volumes.

The medical profession of Kentucky are taking active steps toward the establishment of a medical library in Louisville to be housed in the new public library building donated by Mr. Andrew Carnegie.

The Secretary of the Paris Academy of Medicine reports that on Dec. 31, 1903, the library contained 202,376 volumes, and that the accessions for the year 1903 numbered 4,511 volumes.

Under the title "A Mine of Lore," J. Winchell Forbes contributes to the September, 1904, number of Drugs and Sundries an interesting sketch of the history and resources of the Lloyd Library, Cincinnati, O. This article also contains valuable bibliographical notes on the early pharmacopoeias and dispensatories. A reprint may be secured by making application to the Lloyd Library.

The Trenton Medical Library Association has just published a 54-page "Catalogue of the Medical Collection in the Public Library" (Trenton, N. J.).

The annual report of the librarian of the Jefferson Medical College Library for their fiscal year just ended shows that there are 3,009 volumes in the library, of which number 439 were added during the year. Of these later accessions, 236 were acquired by purchase and 203 by gift, the largest donation being that of 78 volumes from the library of the late Dr. C. W. Horner. The circulation figures for the year were 10,663 volumes.

The Quine Library of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, Ill., has issued an interesting pamphlet outlining the history and growth of this library which now numbers nearly

10,000 volumes. A cut of the building serves as a frontispiece. The library is named from the Dean of the College, Dr. William E. Quine, who, in addition to his munificent gifts of books and money, added a generous endowment to provide for the future development of the library.

The initial instalment of more than 1,000 volumes for the newly established Medical Department of the State Library, Olympia, Wash., has been received. The outlay for the first order was $2,500.

The Library of the Medical Society of the County of Kings has recently acquired the medical library of Dr. A. N. Bell, for many years the editor of The Sanitarian. Dr. Bell's collection of health reports and of books, pamphlets and periodicals on the subject of sanitary science was perhaps one of the best in the country.

Dr. George F. Shrady has resigned as editor of the Medical Record after serving in that capacity since the founding of the journal in 1866. He is succeeded by Dr. Thomas L. Stedman, who has been the assistant editor for the last twenty years.

The firm of Martinus Nijhoff, publishers and booksellers, of The Hague, have given up their branch office in New York. Their American agents are now Messrs. Tice & Lynch, 45 William St., New York City.

The American Medical Journalist has been resuscitated and comes to life again in New York City, dated September, 1904, Vol. 6, No. 3. It is now published by the O'Gorman advertising agency, 1 Madison Avenue.

Gaillard's Medical Journal has consolidated with Southern Medicine, the consolidation taking place with the October, 1904, issue of the latter journal. The last number of the former journal was that for July, 1904.

With Vol. 2, No. 1, June, 1904, the title of the Bulletin of the Kentucky State Medical Association is changed to the Kentucky Medical Journal.

With the June, 1904 (Vol. 52, No. 6) issue, The Sanitarian ceased to be an independent publication. With the July issue it was consolidated with the Popular Science Monthly.

The President, Secretary and Treasurer, ex-officio.

EXTRACTS FROM CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS.

Art. I. Chap. I. This Association shall be called the Association of Medical Librarians.

Art. I. Chap. 2. Its object shall be the fostering of medical libraries and the maintenance of an exchange of medical literature among its members.

Art. I. Chap. 3. Medical libraries of not less than 500 volumes and with regular library hours and attendance, medical librarians, and other persons interested in medical libraries shall be eligible to membership. Applicants for membership, upon being unanimously approved by the Executive Committee, shall be entitled to all the benefits of membership from the time they pay their annual dues, their election to be ratified by the Association at its following annual meeting.

Art. II. Chap. 1. The annual dues shall be $10.00 for each library membership and $5.00 for each individual membership.

ROLL OF HONOR.

The publishers of the following journals, transactions, etc., in sympathy with the work the Association is carrying on, generously send their publications free to library members of the Association:

JOURNALS.

Albany Medical Annals. American Medicine. Brooklyn Medical Journal. Cleveland Journal of Medicine. Journal of the American Medical Association. Journal of the Association of Military Surgeons. Kansas City Medical Index-Lancet. New York and Philadelphia Medical Journal. Medico-Pharmaceutical Critic and Guide. Pennsylvania Medical Journal. St. Paul Medical Journal. University of Pennsylvania Medical Bulletin. Western Medical Review.

TRANSACTIONS, ETC.

American Climatological Association. American Laryngological Association. American Pediatric Society. Associated Physicians of Long Island. Mississippi Valley Medical Association. Massachusetts Medical Society. Medical Society of the State of Tennessee.

The dues of every individual and library member of the Association include a subscription to the current numbers of the MEDICAL LIBRARY AND HISTORICAL JOURNAL.

NEW MEMBERS.

The following applications for membership have been accepted by the Executive Committee:

Miss Ada Bunnell, N. Y. State Library, Albany, N. Y.

Dr. U. J. W. Peters, Birmingham, Ala.

Library of the Hartford Medical Society, Dr. Walter R. Steiner, Librarian, Hartford, Conn.

Library of the Fall River Medical Society, Dr. George L. Richards, Librarian, Fall River, Mass.

New Hampshire State Library, Medical Department, Mr. Arthur H. Chase, Librarian, Concord, N. H.

Library of the Medical Faculty, Queen's University, Dr. W. T. Connell, Librarian, Kingston, Ont., Canada.

Library of the Milwaukee Medical Society, Dr. A. W. Myers, Librarian, 822 Goldsmith Bldg., Milwaukee, Wis.

Worcester District Medical Library, Dr. A. C. Getchell, Librarian, 6 Linden St., Worcester, Mass.

DONATIONS TO THE EXCHANGE.

Donations to the Exchange have been received as follows: Eighteen cases of books, pamphlets and journals. from the Boston Medical Library.

Thirty-eight copies of his "Manual of the Diseases of the Eye" [2. Ed., N. Y., 1901] from Dr. Charles H. May, 698 Madison Ave., N. Y. City.