Illinois State Medical Society.
—The Treasurer of this Society, Dr. George N. Krieger, Springfield, Ill., requests the Journal to announce to members that the volume of Transactions for 1894 are now ready for issue. Gentlemen who have paid their annual dues have already received them; those who have thus far omitted to send their dues can have their Transactions at once on receipt of the amount.
Medical Society of the Missouri Valley.
—The seventh annual session of the Medical Society of the Missouri Valley was held at the city hall, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Sept. 20, 1894, under the presidency of Dr. A. F. Jonas, of Omaha. The meeting was called to order at 10 A.M., and after the various committees had made their reports the regular work of the meeting was inaugurated by Dr. W. Ross Martin, of Omaha, who read a paper on chronic articular ostitis of hip with