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The Covnmittee on (3rganization of the Ninth International Medical Congress, to be held in the United States in 1887, met in Wasliington, B. C, on November 29, 1884, for the determination of the general plan of the Congress, the election of Ofiicers of the Committee, who will be nominated to till the same offices in the Congress, and the consideration of questions of finance. The following rules were adopted : 1. The Congress will be composed of members of tlie regu- lar medical profession who shall have inscribed their names on the Register of the Congress, and shall have taken out their tickets of admission. As regards foreign members, the above coiiditions are the only ones which it seems, at present, expe- dient to impose. The American members of the Congress shall be appointed by the American Medical Association, by regularly organ- ized State and local medical societies, and also by such general organizations relating to special departments and purposes, as the American Academy of Medicine, the American Surgi- cal Association, the American Gyn {geological, Oplithalrao- logical, Otological, Laryngological, Neurological, and Der- matological Societies, and the American Public Health Asso- Giation ; eacl) of tlie foregoing Societies being entitled to ap- point one delegate for every ten of thoir membership. The members of all special and subordinate Committees, ap- pointed by the General Committee, shall also be entitled to membership in the Congress, together with such other persons as may be specially designated by the Executive Committee. All Societies entitled to representation are I'eqnested to elect their Delegates at their last regular meeting preceding the meeting of the Congress, and to furnish the Secretary-General with a certified list of the Delegates so appointed. 2. The work of the Congress is divided into eighteen Sec- tions, as follows, viz : 1. Medical Education, Legislation and Registration, including methods of teaching and buildings, apparatus, &c., connected therewith. 2. Anatomy. 3. Physiology. 4. Pathology. 5. Medicine. 6. Surgery. 7. Obstetrics. 8. Gynaecology. 9. Ophthalmology. 10. Otology. 11. Dermatology and Syphilis. 12. Nervous diseases and Psychiatry. 13. Laryngology. 14. Public and International Hygiene. 15. Collective Investigation, Nomen- clature, and Vital Statistics. 16. Military and Naval Surgery and Medicine. 17. Experimental Therapeutics and Pharmacology. 18. Diseases of Children. 3. The General Meetings will be reserved for tbe transaction of the general business of the Congress and for addresses or communications of scientific interest more general than those given in the Sections. 4. Questions which have been agreed upon for discussion in the Sections shall i)e introduced by members previously nomi- nated by the Otficers of the Section. The members who open discussions shall present a statement of the co*^ 'usions which they have formed as a basis for debate. 5. Notices of papers to be read in any one of the Sections, 8 together witli al)8tracts of the same, must be sent to the Sec- retary of that Section before April 30, 1887. Tliese abstracts will be regarded as strictly confidential communications, and will not 1)6 pnljlished until the meeting of the Congress. Pa- pers relating to questions not included in the list of subjects suggested by the otticers of the various Sections will be re- ceived. Any member, after April 30, wishing to bring for- ward a subject not upon tlie programme, must give notice of his intention to the Secretary-General at least twenty-one days before the opening of the Congress. The Officers of each Section shall decide as to the acceptance of any communica- tion offered to their Section, and shall tix the time of its pre- scntation. No communication will bo received which has been already published, or read before a Society. 6. All addresses and papers, read either at General Meetings or in the Sections, are to be immediately handed to the Se(;re- taries. The Executive Committee, after the conclusion of the Congress, shall proceed with the publication of the Transac- tions, and shall have full power to decide which papers shall be published, and whether in whole or in part. 7. The official languages arc English, French, and German. No speaker shall be allowed more than ten minutes, with the exception of readers of papers and those who introduce debates, who may occupy twenty minutes. 8. The Rules, Programmes, and Abstracts of Papers will be published in English, French, and German. Each paper or address will appear in tlie Transactions in the language in wliich it was delivered by the Author. The de- bates will be printed in English. 9. The Offict-rs of the General Committee on Organization are a President, three (3) Vice-Presidents, a Secretary-General, and a Treasurer, and those ele(;ted to these positions will be nominated by the General Committee to hold the same offices in the Congress. All vacancies in these offices shall be filled by election. 10. There shall be an Executive Committee, to be composed of the President, Secretary-General, and Treasurer of the (4en- eral Committee, and of four other members, to be elected by tlie General Committee. The duties of the Execiitive Com- mittee shall bo to (!arry out the directions of the General Com- mittee ; to authorize sudi expenditures as may i)e necessary, and to act for the Gcnei'al Committee during the intervals of its sessions, reporting such action at the next meeting of the General Committee. 11. There shall be a Standing Committee on Finance, com- posed of live meml)er8, to be appointed by the President, sub- ject to the approval of the Executive Committee. 12. Those who are elected as Chairmen of the several Sec- tions sliall be therel)y constituted members of the General Committee. The Otlicers elected are as follows : President. — Dr. Austin Flint, Sr., of New York. Vice-Presidents. — Dr. Alfred Stille, of Philadelphia ; Dr. Henry I. Bowditch, of Boston ; Dr. R. P. Howard, of Mont- real, Canada. Secretary-General. — Dr. J. S. Billings, IT. S. Army. Treasurer. — Dr. J. M. Browne, IJ. S. Navy. Members of the Executive Committee., (in addition to the President, Secretary-General, and Treasurer.) — Dr. I. Minis Hays, of Philadelphia ; Dr. A. Jacobi, of New York ; Dr. Christopher Johnston, of Btiltimore ; Dr. S. C. Busey, of Washington. The Executive Committee will proceed at once to complete the work of organization. Washington, D. C, Dec. 1, 188^.. J. S. BILLINGS, Secretary- General.