To the Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association Sir: In sending you the stenographic report of the Transactions of the American Electro-Therapeutic Association at its meeting in September, I presumed its value to you as news would be impaired by undue delay, hence the several speakers were not given an opportunity to correct the notes of their remarks. The discussions are therefore verbatim, and allowing for the possible existence of slight errors in notes that fill more than four hundred pages of manuscript, are an exact reproduction of what the speakers actually said. I well know that few physicians speak in public with the same directness and brevity with which they write, but if the reports of the discussions that occur at these great annual meetings are to be published immediately, as they should be, it becomes impossible to submit the separate notes of five different sessions