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 of the state or progress of Medical Science during the last year, or an Oration on some subject connected with Medical Science, or a Biographical Memoir of some eminent cultivator of Medical Science, who may have resided in the Provinces.

PRESIDENT.

The office of President to be honorary, and conferred on some senior Physician or Surgeon of eminence, resident in any of the provincial towns comprised in the circle of the Association.

SECRETARIES.

The two Secretaries to be resident in Worcester, the place of publication, their duties being to attend to the printing of the transactions, and to correct the press; to be present at the meetings of the Council, and to keep the minutes thereof; to correspond with the members of the Association; to receive and submit to the Council all papers transmitted for publication; and to keep the financial accounts of the Association.

COUNCIL.

The Council to consist of ─── members, to be selected from the principal provincial towns. The Council, with whom must rest the chief responsibility of publication, to have full power of deciding on all papers transmitted, and the consent of three of its members must be obtained before any paper can be published. It shall also be the duty of the Council to receive the subscriptions, when due, in their respective districts. Each member of the Association to pay one guinea on admission, and the same amount, annually, afterwards; the subscription to commence from the 1st of January each year, and to be considered as due, unless notice of its being withdrawn be given to one of the Secretaries, antecedently to the year for which it would be payable; for such subscription each member shall receive a copy of each part of the transactions published. Each volume to contain a list of all the members.

3rd.—That Dr. Johnstone, of Birmingham, be elected President of the Association for the ensuing year; that Dr. Carrick, of Bristol, be elected President for the year 1833-4.

4th.—That Dr. Hastings and Mr. Sheppard be Secretaries.

5th.—That the following Members, with power to add to their number, do constitute the Council for the ensuing year.

6th.—That each Member of the Association do pay the sum of one guinea per annum, towards printing the transactions of the Association, and defraying the incidental expenses, and that subscriptions do commence from the 1st of January, 1832.