AMERICAN GYNECOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Dear Sir : 
I have the ho?ior to inform you that 
at a meeting held in the New York Academy op 
Medicine on June jd, 1876, an Association was 
organized under the name of the AMERICAN 
GYNECOLOGICAL SOCIETY, for the purpose of 
promoting knowledge in all that relates to the 
Diseases of Women and to Obstetrics. 
The following gentlemen were by vote consti- 
tuted founders of the Society, a majority of them 
having been present : 
FORDYCE BARKER, . . New York. 
E. R. PEASLEE, .... 
T. A. EMMETT, ... 
T. G. THOMAS, .... 
J. M. SIMS, 
I. E. TAYLOR 
E. NOEGGERATH, ... 
W. T. LUSK 
P. F. MLTNDE, .... “ 
D. H. STORER, .... Boston. 
C. E. BUCKINGHAM, 
G. H. LYMAN 
A. D. SINCLAIR, ... 
W. L. RICHARDSON, . 
G. H. BIXBY 
J. R. CHADWICK, . . . . “ 
W. L. ATLEE, .... Philadelphia. 
W. GOODELL 
R. A. F. PENROSE, ... 
E. WALLACE, .... 
A. H. SMITH 
T. M. DRYSDALE, .... 
J. V. INGHAM, .... 
J. BYRNE, Brooklyn. 
A. J. C. SKENE, .... J. T. JOHNSON, .... Washington, D.C 
S. C. BUSEV, .... 
H. F. C. WILSON, .... Baltimore. 
W. T. HOWARD, ... 
W. H. BYFORD Chicago, 111. 
E. VAN DE VVARKER, . . Syracuse, N.Y. 
J. P. WHITE, ..... Buffalo, N.Y. 
J. D. TRASK, .... Astoria, N.Y. 
T. PARVIN, ..... Indianapolis. 
E. W.JENKS, .... Detroit. Mich. 
R. BATTEY Rome, Ga. 
H. F. CAMPBELL, . . . Augusta, Ga. 
J. C. REEVE, Dayton. Ohio. 
G. J. ENGELMANN, . . St. Louis, Mo. 
Total, 39 Fellows. 
A Constitution and By-Laws were then adopted, 
and subsequently the following Officers elected: 
President, FORDYCE BARKER, 
Vice Presidents, W. L. AIL EE, 
W. H. BYFORD. 
Secretary, J. R. CHADWICK. 
Treasurer, P. F. MUNDE, 
Council, J. M. SIMS, 
W. GOODELL, 
T. PARVIN. 
G. H. LYMAN. 
Attention is called to the following extracts from 
the Constitution and By Laws: 
“ III. The Fellows shall not exceed sixty in number.” 
“ Candidates (for Fellozvship ), shall be proposed to the 
Council one .month before the first day of meeting, by two fel- 
lows, and on recommendation of the Council shall be balloted 
for at the annual meeting.” 
“ A two-thirds affirmative vote of all the Fellows present, 
shall constitute an election." 
“ No one shall be eligible for active Fellowship until he shall 
have submitted to the Council a paper on some subject con- 
nected with gynecological science A 
“ VI. The titles of all papers to be read at any Annual 
Meeting shall be forwarded to the Secretary rtot later than one 
month before the first day of the Session. 
No paper shall be read before the Society which has already 
been printed, or been read before another body. 
All papers that ?nay be read before the Society, and accepted 
for publication, shall become the property of the Society, and 
their publication shall be under the control of the Council." For the 1st Annual Meeting the titles of the fol- 
lowing papei‘s have already beeti received and many 
others are promised: 
Annual Address, by the President. 
Incision of the Cervix Uteri, by Dr. T. A. Emmett. Discus- 
sion. by Drs. J. M. Sims, E. R. Peasi.ee and others. 
Battey’s Operation for Extirpation of the Ovaries, by Dr. R. 
Battey. 
A case of Abnormal Menstruation, by Dr. T. Parvin. 
Cases of Cystic Tumors in the Pelvis, by Dr. G. H. Bixby. 
A case of Labor complicated with four large uterine fibroids 
and Placenta Prcevia, by Dr. J. R. Chadwick. 
The Fellows are requested to forward the nomina- 
tions for Fellowship and the titles of their papers 
to the Sen eta)y, before August 13th, 1876. 
Tin 011gh the courtesy of Dr. J. S. Billings, in 
charge of the Libraiy of the Surgeon Generals 
Office, in Washington, each volume of the Transac- 
tions of the Society will contain a complete Index of 
the current gynecological and obstetric literature of 
the twelve months preceding. 
The first annual meeting will be held in New 
Fork, on Sept. 13th, 14th, and 13th, 1876. 
JAMES R. CHADWICK, 
Secretary. 
Clarendon St., Boston, 
July 1S76.