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inspired by the excitement of battle, and he remindedthe young officers that in times of peace, when the com-batants were largely engaged in the somewhat tedious dutiesof drill, they themselves would be ever occupied in observingthe variations of disease and in making inquiries wherebythey would often have opportunities of advancing medicalscience. As an example of the quiet bravery shown by amedical officer Lord Lister recalled the work done bySir Joseph Fayrer at Lucknow when exposed constantly tothe greatest peril. Continuing his short address his lord-ship adjured the young officers to keep in view the nobilityof their calling. He congratulated them upon the knowledgethey had acquired in the great school they were leaving,upon the bright prospects before them, and above all uponbeing about to enter on the active practice of a professionthe due performance of which brought its own never-failinggreat reward.The DIRECTOR-GENERAL, in asking the company to accord

Lord Lister a very hearty welcome to Netley, said that hisvisit was especially interesting to them because of his lord-ship’s great services to the world in general and to the armyin connexion with aseptic surgery. He mentioned thatduring the late frontier war in India no death had beendue to a wound becoming septic and that all the ninecases of compound fracture of the thigh did well andthat we owed these results to Lord Lister’s great dis-coveries and work. He said that among both officersand men a feeling still lingered that the oftener theirwounds were dressed the better it would be for them,and that there were those who gauged the attention shownto them by the frequency of wound dressing, while the factwas that if wounds were treated on the principles whichLord Lister had introduced the less a wound were touchedafter the first dressing the better-that, in fact, woundsshould not be redressed for eight or ten days. He hoped thatLord Lister’s visit would do something to spread these truthsamong the officers and soldiers of the army and remove pre-judice from the mind concerning a system of treatment Iwhich the whole medical profession regarded as scientific.He asked the audience to extend to Lord Lister a very

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Sir JOSEPH FAYRER added a few words of congratulationto the successful officers and said that although his officialconnexion with the school had long ceased it was a sourceof pleasure to him to watch its progress and to see theresults which the Netley teaching had achieved both inIndia and in other parts of the world. He hoped that theknowledge which they had gained would suggest furtherinvestigations, for there was still a great deal lying open todiscovery, and he urged and advised them to do their bestso that they might thereby become great benefactors to theirprofession and to the army. In conclusion he congratulatedthem upon the new titles which Lord Lansdowne had con-ferred upon them, remarking that in the army only one set oftitles carried any weight and enabled men to carry out theirduties properly ; these titles had now been granted to themand would, he felt sure, be used by them to carry out theirresponsible duties as the medical officers of the armyeffectively. No medical officer wanted to command regi-ments, but as they had other duties to perform it was

necessary that they should have military authority andcontrol.

Surgeon - General NASH, Principal Medical Officer of

Netley, said he had now to close the session of theschool. He hoped that those leaving Netley would feel thattheir stay there had been profitable and that they wouldlook back upon the time spent in the school as a pleasantone. He wished them success in the services to which theybelonged and in which they that day became officers.Lord Lister and the company were subsequently entertained

at luncheon by the officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps.

THE METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL SUNDAYFUND.

A MEETING of the Council of the Metropolitan HospitalSunday Fund was held on Wednesday, Aug. 3rd, at theMansion House, to receive the report of the Committeeof Distribution and to order payment of awards to hospitalsand dispensaries’as well as for the transaction of general

business. In the absence of the Right Hon. the Lord Myor,the chair was taken by Sir SYDNEY WATERLOW, Vice-presi-dent of the Fund.The report stated that the Committee of Distribution

recommend awards this year to 186 institutions, being anincrease of 81 since the first awards were made in 1873 and2 less than last year. The total amount available for dis-tribution, after allowing for liabilities and the usual current.expenses, is .635,000. Of this tot.l .f.34,304 is now recom-mended to be paid to 132 hospitals and 54 dispensaries -This year 195 institutions have made applications for grantsfrom the fund. Of this number it was found necessaryto invite the attendance of deputations from the governingbodies of 17. In 6 of these cases, including two applicationswhich were withdrawn, the committee were not able to makeany recommendation. Deputations from twelve hospitalsand from one dispensary conferred with the committee andin nearly every case the committee received explanationsmodifying the causes of adverse criticism and enabling themto raise the bases of awards as now recommended. Arrange--ments for restricting the advantages of the out-patient systemto the poor have been made at nearly all the large and atsome of the smaller hospitals. The practice of makinga small charge to out-patients is rather on the increase,The amount available for distribution is less than that dis--tributed last year, but the committee feel that following ona Jubilee year in which strong appeals were made in otherdirections, the collections this year on Hospital Sundaymaintain a fair average, and that the confidence of thepublic in the Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund is wellsustained.

Previously to the consideration of the report the CHAIRMANannounced that Mr. Ludwig Mond had for the eleventh timegiven his annual subscription of .6100.

In moving the adoption of the annual report for the tBB entysixth time Sir SYDNEY H. WATERLOW said that he coul’!’-

congratulate the fund on the amount collected this year,though the sum was smaller than in previous years. Up todate .638,741 12s. 6d. had been received and when thedifficulties under which collections were made in 1898 ascompared with former years were remembered there wasvery much reason, he thought, to be thankful to ministers ofall denominations who had succeeded in collecting so large-a sum. Many of their large contributors had either trans-ferred their subscriptions to the Prince of Wales’s Fund orhad divided their contributions. Referring to hospital abusehe said he believed that it did not exist to any large extentand the hospitals were doing what they could to check it byappointing officers to inquire into the merits of patients.Sir Sydney Waterlow concluding by moving :-That the report of the Committee of Distribution for the year 1898 be

and is hereby approved, and that the several awards recommended B1ó>

paid as soon as possible.

Dr. J. G. GLOVER, who seconded the adoption of the report,said he could not suppress his disappointment at the factthat there were .65000 less to distribute than last year.The Hon. SYDNEY HOLLAND, supporting the motion.

pleaded for more support from the public. Hospitalmanagers who devoted their time to the management ofhospitals ought to be relieved of the disagreeable work ofbegging, and he asked the press to make it known that unless ’the public supported hospitals more energetically than theydid at present very evil times were in front of us.The motion before the meeting was then parsed unani--

mously.Lord STAMFORD proposed :-That the cordial thanks of the Council be and are hereby given to

Sir Sydney H. Waterlow, Bart. (chairman), and to the other members.of the Committee of Distribution for the discretion which they havc-exercised in interviewing numerous deputations and ior the carebestowed in the preparation of the awards they have recommended.Canon FLEMING seconded the motion, which was adopted.Sir EDMUND HAY CURRIE proposed :—That the thanks of the council be and are hereby given to the editors

of newspapers who have pleaded lthe needs of hospitals and advocatedthe cause of this fund.

In seconding this Sir HENRY BURDETT suggested that greaterprominence should be given to the fund by supplying editor"!of newspapers with literature relating to the fund from timeto time and especially just before Hospital Sunday.

Sir SYDNEY WATERLOW said the matter of increased

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the Lord Mayor, which was unanimously adopted, referredto the advantage the fund received from having its home atthe Mansion House.

Dr. GLOVER asked to be allowed to propose a motion tothe effect that the Distribution Committee be requested toinvestigate and consider the cause of the diminution in theamount collected this year, and to report to the Council atthe next meeting.Mr. THOMAS CHRISTY seconded.Sir H. BURDETT said he was in a position to state that with

the exception of four hospitals, where the circumstances werespecial and the reasons apparent, every hospital in Londonlast year had a more prosperous year than before. What-ever might be the cause of the fall in the amount collectedfor the Hospital Sunday Fund it was certainly not due to theyear of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee or to the Prince ofWales’s Hospital Fund.

Sir SYDNEY WATERLOW said that it would be invidious tomake any comparison between the two funds.

Dr. GLOVER disclaimed the slightest wish to make anyreflections on the Prince of Wales’s Fund.On the matter being put to the vote three members of

Council voted for the motion and three against.The proceedings then terminated.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANSOF LONDON.

THE ordinary Comitia of the Fellows of the Royal Collegeof Physicians of London was held on July 28th, the

President, Sir SAMUEL WILKS, Bart., being in the chair.It was announced that the Gulstonian Lectures for 1899

would be delivered by Dr. G. R. Murray, who had chosenthe Pathology of the Thyroid Gland for his subject. The<Croonian Lectures will be given by Dr. F. W. Mott.

The PRESIDENT stated that the Bradshawe Lecture wouldbe given by Dr. Ord on Myx&oelig;dema and Allied Conditions.

Dr. W. B. Ransom was admitted to the Fellowship.Edward Hanly, M.D. R.U.I., William Darley Hartley,

M.D.Durh., and Edward Arthur Saunders, M.A., M.B.Oxon.,were admitted Members of the College.

Licences were granted to 135 gentlemen who had passed,;the recent examination.

Dr. NORMAN MOORE, on behalf of a committee of the

Fellows, presented to the College a portrait of Dr. W. Munk,the Harveian librarian, which had been painted by theHon. John Collier. Dr. Moore recounted the services whichDr. Munk had rendered to the College and in particulardwelt upon his great work of the Roll of the College, whichwas first published in 1861, and of which a second editionappeared in 1878.-The PRESIDENT briefly acknowledgedthe gift in the name of the College.A letter was read from the Charity Commission relative to

certain proposals for the future care and maintenance of thePhysic Garden at Chelsea, which had been, since its forma-tion by Sir Hans Sloane, in the keeping of the ApothecariesSociety, and it was resolved that tha College should intimate

, its desire to be represented on any board of trustees whichmay be formed to take over the charge of the garden.

Communications were read from the secretary of the RoyalCollege of Surgeons of England reporting the proceedingsof its Council.A letter was read from the Master of St. Katharine’s

-,,,Hospital inviting the College to nominate a representative;to act on the council of the Queen Victoria Jubilee Instituteof Nurses and in compliance with this request Sir DyceDuckworth was nominated.An application from the chairman of Charing-cross

’Hospital asking for the assistance of the College to the funds.of the hospital was read, but the request could not be accededto as the College had no funds at its disposal for such apurpose.An application from Sir W. Turner on behalf of the family

of the late Sir George Burrows for permission to have areplica made of the bust in the possession of the College tobe presented to the General Medical Council was, after somediscussion, granted.

The PRESIDENT having informed the College that the

University of London Commission Bill had passed the third)reading in the Commons a cordial vote of thanks was, on themotion of Dr. STEPHEN MACKENZIE, seconded by Dr. PYE-SMITH, awarded to Dr. Allchin for his long and arduous

labours on behalf of the College in connexion with theUniversity question.On the motion of Dr. DICKINSON, seconded by Dr.

CHURCH, it was unanimously resolved :-The Royal College of Physicians having learnt that certain change

are likely to be made in the laws relating to vaccination think it theirduty to reiterate their conviction that vaccination, properly performedand duly repeated, is the only known preventive of small-pox, and thisopinion they consider to he fully confirmed by the report of the presentCommission.

It was further resolved that copies of this resolution shouldbe communicated to Lord Salisbury, Mr. Arthur Balfour,Mr. Chaplin, and the journals.The Censors and other officers, members of committees,

and examiners for the ensuing year were then elected. (Seeappended list.)An elaborate report was received from Dr. SIMS WOODHEAD

upon specimens of Uganda arrow-head poison, which hadbeen sent to the College from the Foreign Office. A copy ofthe report was directed to be sent to the Foreign Office andthe thanks of the College were voted to Dr. Woodhead.

Reports from the Committee of Management and theLaboratories Committee were read and also reports from therepresentative of the College on the General Medical Counciland from Dr. C. T. Williams, the representative of the

College on the Council of Mason College, Birmingham, thelatter detailing the proceedings of the meeting lately heldto promote the establishment of a midland university.

Reports from the Finance, Museum, and Library Com-mittees and from the examiners for the Licence were alsopresented.The following is the list of cfficers and examiners who

were appointed at the meeting :-Censors : Dr. WalterButler Cheadle, Dr. William Miller Ord, Dr. Philip JohnHensley, and Sir R. Douglas Powell, Bart., M.D. Lond.Treasurer: Sir Dyce Duckworth, M.D. Edin. EmeritusRegistrar: Sir Henry Pitman, M.D. Cantab. Registrar :Dr. Edward Liveing. Harveian librarian: Dr. William Munk.Elected members of the Library Committee : Dr. SamuelJones Gee, Dr. Philip Henry Pye-Smith, Dr. John Cavafy,and Dr. George Vivian Poore. Curators of the Museum:Dr. William Howship Dickinson, Dr. Henry CharltonBastian, Dr. William Cayley, and Dr. Norman Moore.Finance Committee : Dr. Alfred Baynard Duffin, Dr. GeorgeVivian Poore, and Dr. John Mitchell Bruce. Examiners;

Chemistry and Chemical Physics : Dr. William Ramsay,F.R.S., Mr. Percy Faradav Frankland, Ph D., F.R.S., Mr.John Millar Thomson, F.C.S., Mr. Frederick Daniel

Chattaway, Ph.D., and Mr. Henry Wilson Hake, Ph.D.Materia Medica and Pharmacy : Dr. Francis Warner, Dr.

William Carter, Dr. Nestor Isidor Charles Tirard, Dr.Hector William Gavin Mackenzie, and Dr. James Calvert.

Physiology : Dr. William Dobinson Halliburton, Dr. John

Wychenford Washbourn, and Dr. Marcus Seymour Pembrey.Anatomy: Mr. George Robertson Turner and Mr. GeorgeDancer Thane. Medical Anatomy and Principles andPractice of Medicine : Dr. William Cayley, Dr. JosephFrank Payne, Dr. Thomas Henry Green, Dr. Thomas LauderBrunton, Dr. Arthur Ernest Sansom, Dr. Horatio BryanDonkin, Dr. Thomas Barlow, Dr. David Bridge Lees, Dr.Julius Dreschfeld, and Dr. William Hale White. Midwiferyand Diseases peculiar to Women : Dr. John Baptiste Potter,Dr. Charles James Cullingworth, Dr. John Phillips, Dr. C.Montagu Handfield-Jones, and Dr. Robert Boxall. SurgicalAnatomy and Principles and Practice of Surgery : Mr. JohnLangton and Mr. John Neville Colley Davies-Colley. PublicHealth: Part 1., Lieutenant-Colonel James Lane Notter,M.D., R.A.M.C. ; and Part II., Dr. William Henry Corfield.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OFENGLAND.

AN ordinary meeting of the Council was held on Aug. 2ndthe President, Sir WILLIAM MAC CORMAC, Bart., being in thechair.The SECRETARY laid before the Council the balance-sheet

and the certificates of the auditors, Messrs. Cooper Brothersand Co., certifying to the accuracy of the accounts for thepast year. The balance-sheet and statement of receipts and

expenditure were approved and adopted.The Council considered the desirability of addressing a