composed of two or three hundred members of the regular profession, all of whom shall be of acknowledged ability, possessing a good moral character and standing in the community. Said association to employ the best legal talent attainable, by the year, to furnish the members such legal advice as they may desire at any time and defend any suit against the members arising in the discharge of their professional duties. It was stated that the expense to each member of an association composed of about two hundred would not exceed five dollars per annum, and that an initiation fee of five dollars would create a sufficient fund for court expenses. Such an association would be a power in preventing suits. Let it be known that the individual physician is backed by the financial and moral support of a few hundred of the best physicians, and aided by the best legal talent obtainable, and he will be let severely alone by the offscouring and dregs of society who constitute, almost without exception, the blackmailing element in our professional life. The author stated that he was not aware of the existence of such an association as the one proposed in any other city, but the principle at least has been carried out recently by the New York County Medical Society, in voting $500 to assist in the defense of the Drs. Purdy, members of the Society, in the case of Brown _vs._ Purdy. After reading a number of letters from prominent physicians in favor of forming a protective association, and presenting several legal opinions sustaining the advisability, practicability and legal status of such a society, the author concluded by stating his firm belief that such an association for mutual protection was needed, that it would be a power for good, that it would draw the profession closer together, that, in short, it would be based on the principles of a common brotherhood, viz.: equality, harmony, justice and unity.