The Hon. S. E. Williamson will deliver an address to the graduating class in the evening. The graduating exercises will be held in the First Methodist Church, corner of Euclid avenue and Erie street. There will afterwards be a reception and banquet at the Hollenden. THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL COLLEGE. The Western Pennsylvania Medical College has been organized and liberally endowed, and will soon assume possession of its new building on Sixth street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The course of lectures will not begin, however, until October. The faculty will be composed of the following well-known, earnest and hard-working practitioners: Professor of Anatomy, Dr. Heckelman; Professor of Physiology, Dr. Allen; Professor of the Principles of Surgery, Dr. Murdock; Professor of the Practice of Surgery, Dr. McCann; Professor of the Principles of Medicine, Dr. Shively; Professor of Clinical Medicine, Dr. Lane; Professor of Chemistry, Dr. Blank; Professor of Materia Medica, Dr. Gallagher; Professor of Obstetrics, Dr. Duff; Professor of Gynæcology, Dr. Asdale; Lecturer on Dermatology, Dr. Dunn; Lecturer on Nervous Diseases, Dr. Ayers; Lecturer on Orthopædic Surgery, Dr. King; Lecturer on Genito-Urinary Diseases, Dr. Thomas. SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NORTHEASTERN UNION MEDICAL SOCIETY. SIXTIETH QUARTERLY SESSION, HELD AT AKRON, OHIO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1886. The president, DR. J. E. DOUGHERTY, in the chair. DR. BAUER, of the Committee on Obituaries, was instructed to prepare a fitting memorial to be read at the next meeting upon the death of Dr. J. C. Ferguson of Mogadore. DR. PIERSON read a history of a clinical case. The clinical committee, consisting of Drs. Hitchcock, Bauer and Rowe, after examination, reported the case to be one of chronic pleuritis with adhesions and effusion, and recommended alterative treatment. DR. FISHER read a report of a case of puerperal convulsions, in which venesection had been resorted to with favorable results. In the discussion which followed, DR. SHIVELY said he did not believe in blood-letting, but would rely upon _drastic cathartics_ and anæsthetics. DR. WRIGHT, in a practice of fifty years, had employed blood-letting in a few cases with good results. DR. EVERHARD had seen several cases, and favored the use of anæsthetics, but objected to the use of morphine on the ground of the supposed uræmic pathology of puerperal convulsions. DR. HOWARD thought Dr. Fisher’s treatment of the case good, and believed emphatically in blood-letting, and also in the use of arterial sedatives, such as verat., vir., etc.