Excerpt from Papers Read Before the Medico-Legal Society of New York: From Its Organization It was intended at that time to publish the succeeding papers (series two) the next year, but the retirement of Mr. Bell from the chair, and other circumstances, prevented, until the year 1882 when, upon his re-election as President, the original purpose was ordered harried out by the Society, and series two of' these papers was published, which em braced many of the more important papers, read before the Society up to the Fall of 1874. 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.