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The present number completes the ninth volume of The Journal of the American Medical Association and four and one-half years of its publication. In complying with a By-law of the Association which requires the publication of the full list of permanent members of the Association every three years, we have given the list in this number as furnished by the Secretary and Treasurer of the Association. This list and the annual report of the Librarian for 1886, with a full index and title page for the volume, fill so many columns that we have but little space for other reading matter in this number. As our next issue will constitute the first number of Volume X., now is a favorable time for new subscribers to send their orders for The Journal, and it is an equally favorable time for such old subscribers as are in arrears, to pay up. And