that the fish are the host of the germs of leprosy; that is that the fish can harbor the germs of leprosy without being made sick, but those who eat such fish will develop leprosy. For a number of years a great English physician, Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, had advanced the idea that fish were the propagator of leprosy because leprosy was so prevalent in countries that fed mostly on fish. But Dr. Hutchinson had never proved anything. It was left for Dr. Couret to give the proof.

By examining the fish of a region for the germs of leprosy it can be determined if it is safe to feed on them.

Dr. Couret is a young Creole of the French Quarter of New Orleans. He is now 35 years of age and is assistant pathologist in the Charity Hospital. If he were living in Paris he would surely have been decorated with the Legion of Honor for his achievement.

Dr. William Herbert Harris, by experiment, showed that pellagra could be transmitted from man to monkey. Dr. Harris is doing now for pellagra what the great Villemain did sixty years ago in inocculating tuberculosis from man to animal before the germ of tuberculosis had been discovered. The germ of pellagra has not yet been found, but the discovery of an antitoxin may ultimately result from the work of Dr. Harris, just as an antitoxin has been found by Pasteur for rabies, the germ of which is still unknown.

Dr. Harris is an Orleanian. He is 32 years old and is an assistant professor of Bacteriology in the Tulane School of Medicine. Almost all of his time is devoted to original research.

Dr. Charles Cassedy Bass was the first to cultivate the plasmodium of malarial fever, that is the germ of malarial fever. This was quite an achievement and gave him worldwide fame. Dr. Bass also did original work in connection with the use of emetin in the treatment of Rigg's disease of the teeth, i. e. the suppuration affecting the root of the teeth.

Dr. Bass is professor of experimental medicine in the

Tulane College of Medicine. He is now 40 years old. He still pursues original research.

Dr. Foster Matthew Johns has been assisting Dr. Bass in his work. He is now instructor in clinical and tropical medicine in the Tropical School of Medicine of Tulane. He is 35 years old.

Dr. Marion Sims Souchon was the first to remove a small urinary calculus from the vesical intraparietal portion of the ureter by the perineal route. This is quite a simplification on the other procedures.

Dr. Marion Souchon is a New Orleanian. He graduated from the Tulane School of Medicine in 1894 and soon worked out a fine practice. He is now the head surgeon of the Hotel Dieu Sanitarium and of the French Hospital. He is also instructor in clinical surgery in the Tulane School of Medicine. He is 45 years old.

Dr. Clyde Lynch claims to be the first who removed a tumor whole from the larynx and to have sutured a wound in the larynx.

Dr. Lynch is the head surgeon of the nose and throat department of the Eye, Nose and Throat Hospital. He is 35 years of age and was born in New Orleans.

Dr. Ansel Marion Caine was the first to administer warm ether as an anesthetic without using a flame to heat the ether. This discovery lessens very much the risk of pneumonia following the administration of ether. Hs is instructor in anesthetics in the Tulane School of Medicine. He is a Tulane man. He is 33 years old. He has specialized as an anesthetist.

Dr. Carroll Woolsey Allen was the first to write a complete treatise on "Local Anesthesia" in the English language. It is a very valuable aid to the surgeons. Dr. Allen is assistant professor of clinical surgery in the Tulane School of Medicine. He has assisted Dr. Matas in several works of research and experiments. He is 45 years of age.

Mr. Lloyd Arnold was the first to demonstrate that

Graafian follicles of the ovary may contain two or more ova. He is still a medical student and was one of the first students in America to do original research work. He is a thorough enthusiast over such research work and is devoting a great deal of his time to it. He is 30 years old.

Dr. Henry Dickson Bruns has devised a new operation for shortening the straight muscles of the eye-ball. It is quite ingenious. The doctor is from New Orleans. He is a graduate of Tulane. He is the head surgeon of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital. He is 56 years old.

Dr. Oscar Dowling was the first president of the Louisiana State Board of Health to equip, in the South, health trains which he carries over all the parishes of Louisiana and of the Southern States to teach the people, by actual demonstrations and lantern slide exhibitions how to preserve and improve their health. That is the true mission of a State Board of Health.

Dr. Dowling graduated from Tulane and was practicing rhinology and laryngology before his genius found its true path. He is 39 years old.

Dr. Stanford Chaillé Jamison, in experimenting on dogs, made the discovery that when the large vessels of the spleen were ligated the spleen would not undergo gangrene if it was covered over by the omentum, i. e. the delicate membrane which lays in front of the intestines. This opens a new field in the surgery of the spleen and abdomen, and the young experimenter deserves much credit for his powers of experimentation and observation. The doctor is now 28 years old and is a Tulanian and an Orleanian. He is instructor in clinical and tropical medicine in the Tulane College of Medicine.

Finally, the State of Louisiana was the first in America to establish and maintain a leprosarium, i. e., a leper's home.

The annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Society took place January 19th, 1916, with Mr. Cusachs presiding and thirty-two members present. In the absence of Miss King, Robert Glenk acted as secretary. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved, after correction.

A beautiful silver loving cup, donated by the society, was presented to Mr. Parker Borden Hamilton, who finished first on the Jackson Day run of the Y. M. C. A., January 8th, 1916. The presentation was made by Mr. John Dymond.

Mr. Hart presented the following names of persons for election to membership in the society: Mr. Alfred LeBlanc, Rev. J. Petit, Mr. R. N. Sims, Mr. Harry B. Loeb, Mr. E. Ralph Michel, Mr. Palmer Davidson, Mr. John W. Craddock, Mr. H. J. Gassie, Mr. Gilbert Pemberton, Miss Elizabeth Pinckard, Mr. I. J. Fowler, Dr. Joseph Holt, Mr. Wyman Hoey, Mr. Maurice Picheloup, Mr. Coleman E. Adler, Mr. Louis J. Hennessey, Mr. John J. Gannon.

On motion, duly seconded, they were unanimously elected. Mr. Hart, in behalf, of the Memorial Committee, presented the following resolution on the death of Mr. John J. Rochester, which was ordered spread upon the minutes: NEW ORLEANS, January 19, 1916.

To the Members of the Louisiana Historical Society:

Your undersigned committee appointed to prepare a tribute out of respect to the memory of our deceased fellowmember, John J. Rochester, beg to report as follows:

While not entirely unprepared for the sad event, the members of this society and the community in general, were greatly shocked to hear that on the night of Tuesday, November 9th, Mr. John J. Rochester departed for the great beyond, for while we knew that he had been for sometime in failing health, our latest information was that he was improving and might soon be able to again resume the duties of life.

Mr. Rochester was porn in Salem, Ky., and though he lived in New Orleans for sixty-five years of his life, dying at the age of seventy-one, thus having passed the Biblical term of three score and ten, and while as a loyal and devoted citizen of Louisiana, he never forgot his native State, and was always true to its ideals and traditions, and by reason of his father's services as a Kentuckian in the War of the Revolution, Mr. Rochester early become affiliated with the Sons of the American Revolution, and held many important offices in the Louisiana Division thereof.

To him, more than to any other one person, was due the organization some years ago of the Kentucky Society of Louisiana, of which he was the first and up to the time of his death, the only secretary, and which was the one society of natives of another State which took an active part in connection with this society and others in historical and patriotic ceremonials.

Mr. Rochester was for many years a very active member of this society, serving on many important committees and taking an active part in the work of the society in all its celebrations, and particularly in connection with the centennial celebrations of 1903, 1912, and 1915, though the condition of his health did not enable him to work as actively in the last event as in the others.

As chairman of the committee of the society to receive the "New Orleans" in 1912, the replica of the first steamboat which ever navigated the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, he created so much interest and enthusiasm in that important event as to have the work of the society commented upon and recognized throughout the Mississippi and Ohio valleys.

He was one of the organizers of the movement to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary in 1910 of the unveiling of the monument to Henry Clay in this city, in which the Kentucky society joined this society, and during the ceremonies read a very interesting paper connecting Henry Clay with certain incidents in this city.

During his incumbency as chairman of the Membership