of  us  who  is  here  associated.  That  personal  endeavor
must  be,  as  far  as  it  lies  in  our  power,  to  advance  the
great  interest  which  we  represent,  and  through  which  we
shall  be,  in  some  measure,  benefactors  of  our  time.  This
will  enable  us  to  plant  this  profession  firmly  and  securely
in  the  affections  and  the  respect  of  the  community.  Act-
ing in  this  spirit  we  shall,  successfully,  under  God,  resist
any  attacks  upon  our  integrity  :

"  For  self-dependent  power  can  time  defy,
As  rocks  resist  the  billows  and  the  sky."


Stated  Meeting,  February  2d,  1893.
MEMORIAL  ADDRESS   ON    THE   LATE   JAMES
R.  LEAMING,  M.D.
By  J.   LEONARD  CORNING,  M.D.
Mr.  President  and  Fellows  of  the  Academy  :

It  is  seldom  that  the  profession  is  called  upon  to  endure
so  great  a  loss  as  that  which  it  has  so  recently  sustained
in  the  death  of  Dr.  James  R.  Learning,  of  New  York.
For  nearly  half  a  century  Dr.  Learning  had  practised
medicine  with  success.  What  a  panegyric  is  contained
in  that  brief  statement !  Among  all  the  liberal  profes-
sions there  is,  I  am  convinced,  not  another  which,  while
exacting  the  most  definite  knowledge  of  special  subjects,
makes  such  stringent  demands  on  the  whole  man.
