Excerpt from Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, Held at New York City, May 31, June 1 and 2, 1900 It is With great regret that I have to announce the absence of our Governor, the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Whom we had expected to be present to welcome the Association to this city, but circumstances, over Which he had no control, prevented him from being here to-day. This pleasing duty, therefore, falls on me as the representative of the National Guard of the Empire State. We bid you welcome, gentlemen, and assure you that we Will endeavor to make your Visit to New York pleasant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.