Proceedings of Societies

contributions, but here again there is no little difficulty in avoiding both Sylla and Charybdis, since we have found on more than one occasion that fault has been found, (and we have no doubt arising from real injury in a limited circle, to the extension of the Association,) with our refusing admission to articles unfit for the pages of a medical periodical or in some cases for any periodical at all. We are well aware that it is impossible to please all parties, and that in the exercise of our duties we cannot possibly avoid wounding the amour proproe of some, but we can conscientiously affirm that we never exceeded what we thought our duty, and we can with thankfulness recal many instances in which the contributors themselves have most handsomely admitted the truth of our objection. Still there are reasons for the admission of many articles, which perhaps the Editor of an independent Journal would reject, but when it is considered that the promotion ofjournalism is not the sole object of the Association, but that it can only be usefully carried on by making all its several purposes run on smoothly, pari passu, we think we have exercised a sound discretion in sometimes sacrificing the interests of the Journal to those of the Association at large, and from many years' experience of the working of the two, we are quite confident, that whoever conducts the one without reference to the other, will irreparably injure the whole cause, and put a stop at once, not only to the progress of the Journal, but to the Association itself.