WM. J. LOVE, WM. W. LANE, THOMAS F. WOOD. Wilmington, N. C., April 10th, 1878. BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS. _To the Editors of the North Carolina Medical Journal_: In order to regulate the practice of Medicine and Surgery in the State of North Carolina, the General Assembly at the Sessions of 1858 and 1859, passed an Act to establish a Board of Medical Examiners. Without a license from this Board, no physician who has commenced the practice of his profession in this State, “after the 15th of April, 1859, shall practice Medicine or Surgery, or any of the branches thereof, or in any case prescribe for the cure of disease, for fee or reward,” nor “shall he be entitled to sue for or recover, before any magistrate or court in this State, any medical bill for services rèndered.” (See Laws of North Carolina, 1858–59.) In conformity with the provisions of this Act, the State Board of Medical Examiners will meet in the city of Greensborough, on Monday, May 19th, 1879. By authority of the Board. PETER E. HINES, M. D., President. HENRY T. BAHNSON, M. D., Secretary. Salem, N. C., April 15th, 1879. * * * * * _Medical Remuneration._—Doctor: “Um! most insolent!” (To his wife), “Listen to this my dear.” (reads letter aloud) “Sir, I inclose P. O. order for thirteen shillings and six pence, hoping it will do you as little good as your two small bottles of ‘physic’ did me.”—_Chicago Journal and Examiner._—_Punch._ BOOKS AND PERIODICALS RECEIVED. Fern Etchings. By John Williamson. Specimen fasciculus. A Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the Liver. By Dr. Freid. Theod. Frerichs. Vol. 2. Wm. Wood & Co. Difficulties and Dangers of Battey’s Operation. By George J. Engelmann, M. D., St. Louis, Mo. From Trans. Am. Med. Association, 1878. Reports with Analyses of the Apollinaris Spring Neuenaha, Rhenish, Prussia. 1872. (Private and confidential). Lectures on Practical Surgery. By H. H. Toland, M. D. Prof. of the Principles and Practice of Surgery. Second edition. Philadelphia. Lindsay & Blakiston, 25 South 6th Street. Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of Jefferson Medical College, at the Commencement March 12, 1879. By Prof. J. Aitken Meigs, M. D. 1879. Ninth and Tenth Annual Reports of the Maryland Eye and Ear Institute. No. 66. N. Charles Street. Baltimore, Md. George Reuling, M. D. Surgeon in charge. An Address upon the Life and Character of Lunsford Pitts Yandell, M. D. Delivered before the Kentucky Medical Society at the meeting held in Frankfort, April, 1878. By Richard O. Cowling, A. M., M. D.