chair of homœopathy. It is sustained by the voice of the people; and therefore I think that this Institute should pass the resolutions. I am satisfied that the time will come when a majority of the people of this vast country will unite in sustaining institutions of this kind. We hail the beginning, and it seems to me that nothing can be more appropriate than that this Institute should adopt the resolutions offered by Dr. Franklin and amended by Dr. Beebe.

J. P. DAKE, M.D., of Salem, Ohio: I move that these resolutions be referred to a special committee of three, for further consideration.

DR. FRANKLIN: To save time, I accept Dr. Beebe's resolutions as a substitute for mine.

I. T. TALBOT, M.D., of Boston: There are some ideas in one series of resolutions which are not contained in the other. I second Dr. Dake's motion, and would suggest that Drs. Franklin and Beebe be appointed on that committee, that they may combine these resolutions, and put them in the strongest and most emphatic form for presentation to-morrow.

J. BEAKLEY, M.D., of New York: The resolutions of Dr. Franklin, if I have understood them aright, tend to reflect credit upon the acts of Dr. Hempel in sustaining the homœopathic cause in that school. Of this I heartily approve. No man is deserving of higher commendation than Dr. Hempel for the noble efforts made in behalf of homoeopathy in that school; but the resolution of Dr. Beebe promises what we cannot and will not literally perform. He pledges that this Institute will give its support. If it means moral support, it is all right; but, if pecuniary and individual support be meant, it will not be given, because we have institutions in other States to which we must give our individual financial and moral support. Therefore, if this Institute pledges other than moral support to that school, it pledges that which it will not give, and cannot, without injustice to colleges already established.

The motion was carried, and the resolutions were referred to Drs. Franklin, Beebe, and Morgan.

Dr. Franklin asked permission to explain a surgical case which had come under his treatment. (Section V., Art 12.)

The Institute then adjourned till 8 o'clock, P.M.

EVENING SESSION.

In the evening, at eight o'clock, the members reassembled in public meeting. The President called the Institute to order, and introduced HENRY B. CLARKE, M.D., of New Bedford, Mass., who delivered the annual address. (Section I., Art. 10.)

Upon the conclusion of the address, WM. TOD HELMUTH, M.D. of St Louis, offered the following:

Resolved, That the thanks of the Institute be tendered to Dr. Clarke for his able and interesting address, and the happy manner in which he has combined the professional and popular ideas of homœopathy; and that a copy of the address be requested for publication.

The resolution was unanimously adopted.

The Institute then adjourned till Thursday at ten, A.M.

SECOND DAY.

MORNING SESSION.

The Institute met on Thursday morning, at ten, A.M.

MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY.

G. D. BEEBE, M.D., from the Committee on Michigan Univer

sity, reported as follows:

A majority of the committee, consisting of Dr. Franklin and myself, have agreed upon the following report:

Whereas The members of this Institute have watched with peculiar interest the progress of the controversy with reference to the teaching of homœopathy in the Michigan University at Ann Arbor; and

Whereas The withholding of such teaching has been in violation of the laws of the State of Michigan, and of the expressed will of the people, therefore, as the sense of the homœopathic profession here represented,

Resolved, That the interests of homœopathy, and the welfare of the community, demand that the principles of homœopathy shall be taught in the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and that difference of opinion among members of the two schools of medicine ought not to operate to the exclusion of either from a university founded and sustained by the people for the general diffusion of knowledge.

Resolved, That the action of the Board of Regents, in appointing Professor C. J. Hempel to the Chair of Homœopathy in the University of Michigan, receives the hearty and unqualified approval of this Institute.

Resolved, That, should any or all of the allopathic chairs of the medical department of said University be vacated, and the Board of Regents see fit to appoint homœopathic medical men to fill these chairs, the homoeopathic profession of America will pledge its influence to the medical department of that University in sustaining such action.

Dr. Beebe continued: It may perhaps be proper for me to make a few statements in further explanation of the tenor of these resolutions.

For the last twenty years, the Legislature of Michigan has been strongly homoeopathic, and it has been urged upon them to pass some law admitting homeopathic professors to the university. Fifteen years ago, after a good deal of effort by some members of our profession in Michigan, a law was passed by the Legislature, not merely permitting homoeopathy in the university, but commanding its admission. The law was mandatory in its provisions, saying that the Regents should have power to appoint and remove professors over all the departments of the university, and fix their compensations, provided that there should always be at least one professor of homoeopathy in the

medical department. This law the Regents hardly dared to execute, fearing that, if they introduced homoeopathic teachers, the allopathic professors would withdraw, and the school would be broken up from lack of support. In this state of mind, the Regents have hesitated, and this hesitation has been constantly kept up by the agitation on the part of the allopathic professors and the allopathic profession of that State. Efforts were made to reach the Supreme Court of the State, and secure a mandamus to compel the Regents to fill this chair, but a technicality provided that the Attorney-General must make a complaint, before the mandamus could be obtained; and he, not feeling disposed to favor homoeopathy, would not enter a complaint: and so some years passed without action being taken. Of late the Attorney-General is inclined to favor the homœopathic side, and has made a complaint to the Supreme Court, and that court is now considering a motion for the issue of a mandamus.

In the mean time the Regents, feeling the law closing down upon them, and that the courts were going to force them into this measure, sought to effect a compromise by the appointment of a homœopathic professor, and locating a homœopathic branch of the school somewhere else than at Ann Arbor.

While all this was going forward, an offer was made by the friends of the university to raise a tax of one-twentieth of a mill upon all the taxable property of the State for the support of the university. This offer was opposed by some of the friends of homoeopathy. A protest was made that no more funds should he appropriated to the support of this school until this law was complied with in good faith, and a professor of homœopathy appointed; and so the friends of homoeopathy in the Legislature attached to this law a provision that none of the funds thus raised should be paid over to the university until the chair of homoeopathy was filled in good faith. Then followed this action to have elsewhere a pocket school for

homoeopathy; and then the Regents proceeded to claim this fund of $15,000 or $20,000 thus raised, which the Treasurer refused to pay until the law was complied with. Thus the Regents are brought to a stand-still at this point. The Regents desire, as earnestly as the friends of homoeopathy can, that this whole question of law shall be settled. This Board of Regents, all except two of whom are homoeopaths, are very anxious to have the support of the courts of the State, and it is to be hoped that the Supreme Court will decide upon this matter during the present month.

Now, sir, a word as to the facilities offered by this school of medicine. Here is a medical school founded by a public tax upon the people of Michigan. A splendid building has been erected, than which probably there is no better in the United States. A museum has been accumulating for twenty-five years, and no expense has been spared to make it the most complete and splendid collection in the United States. Every facility is offered for the administration of every department of medicine and the collateral sciences, from papier-maché models to the latest improved instruments for the illustration of the mechanical departments of medicine. I suppose it may be safely stated that nowhere in the United States are as good facilities offered for the illustration or teaching of medicine in all its departments as are presented in this university.

Now, sir, the crowning feature of it all is that this school is free, and open to the public from all States of the Union: and young men are invited to come and receive instruction free of all cost; the State paying the bills, except the matriculation fee, a small item, hardly worth considering. The State designs to furnish the very best facilities for medical education that can be had.

Now, here is the first and only instance on this continent where the people have come up through their legislative department and said, "We will educate homœopathic physicians free of