A clinical lecture / by Cornelius R. Agnew.

  • Agnew, Cornelius Rea, 1830-1888.
Date:
[1880?]
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Credit: A clinical lecture / by Cornelius R. Agnew. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. “ Etsi non prosunt singula, juncta juvant.” American Neurological Association. Third Day— Evening Meeting. The Association was called to order at 8:30 P.M., by President Miles. Present—Drs. Miles, Spitzka, Putnam, Cross, Birdsall, Hammond, Gray, Seguin, Kinnicutt. The Secretary said he had received the following letter from Dr. Hammond which he read : New York, 1880. To the Secretary of the American Neurological Association : Dear Sir :—I hereby offer to the American Neurological Association the sum of five hundred dollars, to be awarded by a Committee of the Association, at the meeting in 1882, to the author of the best essay that may be written on The Functions of the Optic Thalamus. I desire this prize shall be open to Neurologists in all parts of the world, under such conditions as the Committee may determine upon. Should no essay be deemed worthy of receiving it, I will continue the offer till the session of 1883• I also request that the Committee may be appointed by the President at the present session of the Association, and I should like to be allowed to confer with the Committee before the final announcement of this offer in regard to certain points of inquiry. Yours sincerely, Wm. A. Hammond. In accordance with the motion of Dr. Hammond, the Secretary proceeded to read the resolutions of Dr. Gray on Asylums, giving the members of the Association an oppor¬ tunity to pass judgment upon the successive sections thereof. Whereas, In 1876 and 1877 a series of papers were pub¬ lished by an eminent alienist, Dr. H. B. Wilbur, himself at the head of a State institution, and the defects of our American asylum system clearly demonstrated ; and Whereas, In the winter of 1878-1879 attention was called