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Editor Journal: — Neurological matters are rather <|iii(^t at present in tin's city, but with a prospect however of becoming becoming more lively. The Societies adjourned last June, but they arc about to reconvene, when we may hope for a reasona- ble action and instruction seeson, judging from the number and titles of the papers already in waiting to he read. TIIK NKW YOliK N KU KOMMJM'AI- SOCIKTV. This society is in a very flourishing condition, and numbers about eighty active members. At its organization a clause was inserted limiting membership to localities within sixty miles of N. V. City. That clause lias been abolished at the earnest solicitation of several medical gentlemen living beyond that limit, who wished to join the society. Its membership is therefore steadily on the increase. IHt. I,. I>. HIU.KLKY ON NKUltOSKS OK 'I'll 10 SKIN ANI» 'I'll Kl It TltKATMKNT. At one of its recent sessions Dr. Rulkley remarked in the course of a dehate, that in a study on "The Relations of the Nervous System to Disease of the skin," which he had recently made, the subject was considered from a physiological and pathological point of view, with the following results: 1st. Miarosr.ojnv Anatomy showed the skin to be an organ remarkably well furnished with nerve elements, their termini being associated with even the individval cells composing the rete malphighii. The influence drawn was that the cells were under direct nevous control, possessing the power capable tinder proper nerve-stimulation, of absorbi,,..