The third annual general meeting of the Shanghai Medical So ciety was held on Tuesday evening, March 22, at the General Hospital. Dr. H. Fresson, President, was in the chair and called the meeting to order at 9 p.m The following members were present; Drs. Fresson, Ransom, Neild, Patrick, Tucker, Snoke, W. S. New, OG. V. Yui, Lagrange, Bary, Marcovici, Aylward, Gardiner, Decker, and Cumming.
After the usual preliminaries had been concluded, Dr. Fresson asked Dr. H. Lovett Cununing, the Hon. Secretary-'!' easurer, to, read his report of the Society's activities during the past year. The report MEMBERSHIP AND MEETING, Since the last annual general meeting, March 31, 1922, the membership hag risen from 78 to 91. The 13 new members include 5 British, 2 American, 1 Rumanian, 1 Russian, 1 Italian, and 3 Chinese, of whom one ig @ woman, thus forming quite a cosmopolitan addition to the Society's membership. Of the total, 86 are resident and five are associate members. The nationalities are divided as follow; Americans 29, British 23, French 3, Belgian, Italian, Russian, Rumanian, one, each, Japanese 6, and Chinese 21.
There were nine meetings of the Society which included the abovementioned annual meeting, and two joint meetings with the Nationa] Medical Society and the Medical Missionary Association participate ing. At the first joint meeting Dr. Brackett, the eminent American orthopedic surgeon, delivered an illustrated lecture on, "'Orthopedics of the Sacroiliae Joints," while at the other joint meeting cases of diverse and_ instructive clinica] interest were discussed and pathological specimens were shown. The remaining -six meetings were regularly monthly meetings of the Society. Two of these were purely clinical while at the othen four, special papers were read by various members.
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