THE AMERICAN DERMATOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Abstract

I extend to every one of the members a cordial welcome to this, the fifth, meeting of this association held in Boston. My appreciation of the honor of presiding over the deliberations of this assembly, with its notable heritage and achievements, I cannot express adequately. The founding of the American Dermatological Association in Philadelphia, sixty years ago, was really the beginning of a fully recognized and independent position of American dermatology, for at that time there were in the field of dermatology no American books, no American research work and no monographs by American authors. The meeting this year coincides with the centennial of the teaching of dermatology in this country, for in 1836 lectures in dermatology were given by Dr. H. D. Bulkley of New York at the Broome Street Infirmary. At the first annual meeting, in Niagara Falls, N. Y., Dr. James C. White, the first president, greeted