THE opening meeting of the Society was held on the 3rd November, when the retiring president, Professor W. W. D. Thomson, introduced Dr. John McCloy to the chair. After thanking Professor Thomson and the fellows and members of the Society for conferring the honour of presidency upon him, Dr. McCloy then referred to the losses which the Society had sustained during the previous year from the dea...

Gentlemen,?My first duty is the pleasant one of thanking you very heartily for the honour you did me this time last year in electing me your President. It is not an easy task to fill worthily the Chair which has been occupied by so many distinguished obstetricians ; and I feel this the more because we are just entering upon the fiftieth session of this Society, and if we follow the many precede...