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 the ninth convention being held in Cleveland, O., in November, 1904.

The catalogue was issued by the authority of the grand chapter in 1899. A second catalogue and directory of the fraternity is in the hands of the printer at the present writing.

The Phi Alpha Gamma Quarterly is also published under the authority of the grand chapter. lt was founded in 1902.

The badge of the fraternity is the middle phalanx of the little finger of a human hand, mounted in gold, with the letters " Φ A Γ " in gold upon a field of black enamel. The color of the fraternity is violet, and its flower is the violet.

Phi Alpha Sigma. (MEDICAL-REGULAR.)

This fraternity was founded at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, in 1886, by H. A. Hanbold, Austin Flint, Jr., N. B. Van Etten, and Frank Hollister. The chapters are as follows:

1886. A, University and Bellevue Hospital Medical

College ........................................... 183

1893. B, University of Pennsylvania ............... 212

1899. Γ, Cornell University Medical College ....... 102

1899. Δ. Jefferson Medical College ................ 101

1903. E, University of Texas ....................... 46

Active chapters, 5; membership, 644.