WETMORE, W. O., acting assistant surgeon. Granted one day's extension of annual leave on account of sickness, Sept. 4, 1909. RYDER, L. W., pharmacist. Granted four days' leave of absence from Sept. 21, 1909, under paragraph 210, Service Regulations. CARLTON, CHARLES G., pharmacist. Relieved from duty at Cairo, Ill., and directed to proceed to Detroit, Mich., and report to the medical officer in command for duty and assignment to quarters. Sept. 17, 1909. ILTIS, G. W., pharmacist. Upon the arrival of Pharmacist Charles G. Carlton, directed to proceed to Boston, Mass., and report to the medical officer in command for duty and assignment to quarters. Sept. 17, 1909. KEEN, W. H., pharmacist. Granted three days' leave of absence from Sept. 7, 1909, under paragraph 210, Service Regulations. APPOINTMENT. THE Massachusetts State Board of Insanity has recently appointed as Assistant to the Executive Officer Dr. Daniel H. Fuller, former superintendent of the Adams Nervine Asylum and previously for six years assistant physician at the McLean Hospital. SOCIETY NOTICE. AT the annual meeting of the American Electro-Therapeutic Association, held at New York, Sept. 28, 29 and 30, 1909, the following officers were elected: Dr. Thos. D. Crothers, Hartford, Conn., President; Dr. T. H. Cannon, Baltimore, Md., and Dr. F. E. Peckham, Providence, R. I., Vice-Presidents; Dr. J. W. Travell, New York, Secretary; Dr. R. J. Nunn, Savannah, Ga., Treasurer. The next annual meeting is to be held at Saratoga early in September, 1910. RECENT DEATHS. DR. JOHN J. BABINGTON, of Brooklyn, N. Y., died on Sept. 28, from cardiac disease. He was a native of New York City and fifty-four years of age and was graduated from the Long Island College Hospital in 1894. DR. E. MILLS BAKER, a well-known physician of Jersey City, N. J., died suddenly on Sept. 26. He was born in Irvington, N. J., on Jan. 9, 1861, and was graduated from the medical department of New York University in 1890, after which he served as interne at Christ Hospital, Jersey City. BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED. GOLDBERGER, JOSEPH, passed assistant surgeon. assigned to duty in the Hygienic Laboratory, to date from Oct. 31, 1908. Sept. 16, 1909. FROST, W. H., passed assistant surgeon. Granted one day's leave of absence, Sept. 13, 1909, under paragraph 191, Service Regulations. WARNER, H. J., assistant surgeon. Granted five days' leave of absence from Sept. 25, 1909. A Text-Book of Surgery. By George Emerson Brewer, A.M., M.D. Second edition, thoroughly revised and much New York and Philadelphia: Lea enlarged. Illustrated. & Febiger. 1909. A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin. By James Nevins Hyde, A.M., M.D. Eighth and revised edition. Illustrated. Philadelphia and New York: Lea & Febiger. 1909. BROWNE, R. W., acting assistant surgeon. Granted sixteen days' leave of absence from Sept. 16, 1909. BURLAND. B. W.. acting assistant surgeon. Granted four-of teen days' leave of absence from Sept. 13, 1909. CURLEY, C. P., acting assistant surgeon. Granted twentyone days' leave of absence from Sept. 25, 1909. DUFFY, FRANCIS, acting assistant surgeon. days' leave of absence from Sept. 21, 1909. Granted three Granted sixteen Granted thirty DYNAN, N. J., acting assistant surgeon. days' leave of absence from Sept. 13, 1909. LIGHT, S. D. W., acting assistant surgeon. days' leave of absence from Oct. 5, 1909. MARSH, W. H., acting assistant surgeon. Granted thirteen days' leave of absence from Oct. 2, 1909. MASON, WM. C., acting assistant surgeon. Granted five days' leave of absence from Oct. 4, 1909. ROBERTSON, HERMAN, acting assistant surgeon. Granted fourteen days' leave of absence from Sept. 17, 1909. SEAVEY, L. T., acting assistant surgeon. Granted three days' leave of absence from Sept. 15, 1909, under paragraph 210, Service Regulations. SMALL, E. M., acting assistant surgeon. Granted fourteen days' extension of annual leave on account of sickness from Aug. 30, 1909. THORNTON, M. J., acting assistant surgeon. Granted thirteen days' leave of absence from Oct. 1, 1909. Health of the City of New York for the Year ending Annual Report of the Board of Health of the Department Dec. 31, 1907. New York. 1908. Surgical Diagnosis. By Edward Martin, M.D. Illustrated. Philadelphia and New York: Lea & Febiger. 1909. Short Talks with Young Mothers on the Management of Infants and Young Children. By Charles Gilmore Kerley, M.D. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Illustrated. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1909. Blood Transfusion. By J. D. S. Davis, M.D., LL.D. Reprint. Report of a Case of Urethral Transplantation. By J. D. S. Davis, M.D., LL.D. Reprint. Leucopathies Métastases, Albuminuries et Ictères Leucopathiques. Par le Dr. Emile Feuillié. Paris: G. Steinheil. 1906. The Operative Treatment of Retrodisplacements, with a New Operation; Intramural Transplantation of the Round Ligaments. By Channing W. Barrett, M.D. Reprint. University of California Publications in Physiology. Table of H+ and OH- Concentrations corresponding to Electromotive Forces Determined in Gas Chain Measurements. By C. L. A. Schmidt. Reprint. L'Hospitalisation des Nerveux. Doct. Lucien-Graux. Re print. NOW READY DISEASES OF THE BONES AND JOINTS by Drs. GOLDTHWAIT, PAINTER and OSGOOD "It is to those practitioners of medicine, therefore, to whom sufferers from joint disease make their first appeal, that these Studies are offered."- The Preface. In One Octavo Volume of 700 pages, with 290 Original Massachusetts General Hospital Out-Patient Department on Friday of each week during the months of October, November, December and patients, methods of treatment, specimens, pictures and microscopic preparations. 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