XECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

XXVI. The _Executive Committee_ shall meet on the third Wednesday of
April, July, October, and January. At the first or annual meeting the
Committees and the Orator shall be appointed for the ensuing year.

At the meetings of the Executive Committee, five persons shall
constitute a quorum. A special meeting of the Executive Committee
shall be called by the President, on the written application of three
of its members.

XXIII. All proposals for alteration of the By-Laws shall be
presented to the Society in writing, and shall be refereed, without
debate, to a special Committee, who shall consider and report on the
same at the next annual meeting of the Society.

FORM OF SUBSCRIPTION.

_The subscribers agree to comply with the By-Laws of the
Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society._

MASSACHUSETTS HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY.

The SEMI-ANNUAL Meeting will be held in the Meionaon Hall, Tremont
Temple, Boston, on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 1864, at 10 o'clock A.M.

In the morning session, the following, among other papers will be
read.

THE EARLY HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN MASSACHUSETTS; by Samuel
Gregg, M.D.

VARIOUS OPERATIONS FOR CATARACT WITH RECENT MODIFICATIONS; by H.
C. Angell, M.D.

ON THE HYPODERMIC INJECTION OF MEDICINES HOMOEOPATHICALLY
INDICATED; by J. H. Woodbury, M.D.

Members are requested to prepare and present at this Session, papers
on any Medical Subject.

A collation will be provided between 12 and 1.

In the afternoon session the subject of discussion with be
DYSENTERY. As a _verbatim_ report of the discussion will be entered
on the records, members are requested to give, in a concise form
their observations in regard to this disease the present season; its
peculiar character and frequency, and the therapeutic action of any
medicines with their distinctive indications.

Any clinical reports may be forwarded to the _Committee on Clinical
Medicine,_ S. M. Cate, M.D. of Salem. Attention is called to the
importance of filling out the _Statistical Records_ and forwarding
them to Dr. Cate at the close of the year.

Any "medical provings" may be forwarded to the Chairman of the
Committee on _Materia Medica,_ H. L. Chase, M.D. of Cambridge.

The following persons have been approved for membership by the
Executive committee.

FOR HONORARY MEMBERS:

Constantine Herring, M.D. of Philadelphia; John F. Gray, M.D. of
New York