AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.-------THIRD ANNUAL MEETING.
Tn consequence of a delay, up to the present time, in the distribution
of the Transactions of the second meeting of the Association, held at
Boston in the month of May, 1849, the Standing Committee of Ar-
rangements, appointed at that time, deem it expedient to give public
notice, through the medical periodical press, that the next meeting
will be held in Cincinnati, on Thursday, the 7th of May, ensuing ; and,
at the same time, they wish to make known to the physicians, who
reside in portions of the United States from which few or no delegates
have yet been sent, the terms of membership. This they will do, by
copying a part of the second article of the Constitution :
“ The Delegates shall receive the appointment from permanently
organized medical societies, medical colleges, hospitals, lunatic asy-
lums, and other permanently organized medical institutions of good
standing in the United States. Each delegate shall hold his appoint-
ment for one year, and until another is appointed to succeed him, and
shall participate in all the business and affairs of the association.
“Each local society shall have the privilege of sending to the asso-
ciation one delegate for every ten of its regular resident members, and
one for every additional fraction of more than half of this number.
The faculty of every regularly constituted medical college or char-
tered school of medicine, shall have the privilege of sending two dele-
gates. The professional staff of every chartered or municipal hospital
containing a hundred inmates or more, shall have the privilege of send-
ing two delegates: and every other permanently organized medical
institution of good standing, shall have the privilege of sending one
delegate.
“ The Members by Invitation shall consist of practitioners of reputable
standing, from sections of the United States not otherwise represented
at the meeting. They shall receive their appointment by invitation
of the meeting after an introduction from any of the members present,
or from any of the absent permanent members. They shall hold their
connection with the association until the close of the annual session at
which they are received; and shall be entitled to participate in all its
affairs, as in the case of delegates.
“ The Permanent Members shall consist of all those who have served
in the capacity of delegates, and such other members as may receive
the appointment by unanimous vote.
“Permanent members shall at all times be entitled to attend the
meetings, and participate in the affairs of the association, so long as
they shall continue to conform to its regulations, but without the right
of voting; and when not in attendance, they shall be authorized to
grant letters of introduction to reputable practitioners of medicine
residing in their vicinity, who may wish to participate in the business
of the meetings, as provided for members by invitation.”
The Committee desire, still farther, to give notice that it is their
duty to receive and present the reports of any of the standing Commit-
tees, whose members cannot attend the meeting; and all communica-
tions on scientific subjects, which gentlemen, not members of the Asso-
ciation, may desire to lay before it.
It is likewise, their duty to examine the credentials of delegates and
register their names, which it is desirable should, as far as possible, be
done before the meeting of the Association, for which purpose the
Committee will meet on the preceding day.
In conclusion, the Committee indulge the hope, that this first meet-
ing in the interior of the continent, will be well attended by its phy-
sicians, and all who cultivate the sciences auxiliary to medicine; that
no society, college or hospital will remain unrepresented; and that
many distinguished physicians, not appointed as delegates, will attend
and become members by a vote of the Association.
Daniel Drake, M. D., Chairman.
D. P. Strader, M. D., Secretary.
Cincinnati^ Jan. 31, 1850.	Ibid.