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this has been already done to some extent, for the AlbertDocks branch has detained patients who were originallyintended to be passed on to Greenwich and the parentinstitution has therefore been depleted in order to feed itsbranch. This seems to be very undesirable in the case of the

Dreadnought with its past traditions, and the more so

because the cases of tropical disease in that hospital havebeen used already for teaching purposes in connexion withone of the London schools.

It is, we think, unfortunate that the Secretary of Statefor the Colonies did not consult such an authority as theRoyal College of Physicians as to the best method of givingeffect to the scheme before it was made public, and it is Imuch to be regretted that the Committee of Management ofthe Seamen’s Hospital Society neglected to consult theirsenior visiting medical staff on a matter so seriously affectingthemselves and the usefulness of the hospital at Greenwich.

We are, Sir, your obedient servants,WM. ROBERTS, M.D., F.R.S.DYCE DUCKWORTH, M.D., LL.D.,

Physician and Lecturer on Medicine, St. Bartholomew’sHospital.

J. FAYRER, M.D., F.R.S.,Consulting Physician, Charing-cross Hospital.

WILLIAM M. ORD., M.D. Lond., F.R.C.P.,Consulting Physician to St. Thomas’s Hospital.

W. S. CHURCH, M.D., F.R.C.P.,Senior Physician, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

W. R. GOWERS, M.D., F.R.S.,Consulting Physician, University College Hospital.

1. BURNEY YEO, M.D., F.R.C.P.,Senior Physician to King’s College Hospital and Pro-

fessor of Medicine in King’s College.FREDK. T. ROBERTS, M.D., F.R.C.P.,

Professor of Medicine at University College ; Physicianto University Hospital.

A. ERNEST SANSOM, M.D., F.R.C.P.,Physician to the London Hospital and Lecturer onClinical Medicine to the London Hospital.

THOMAS BUZZARD, M.D., F.R.C.P.,Physician to the National Hospital for the Paralysedand Epileptic.

W. B.CHEADLB, M.D., F.R.C.P.,Senior Physician to St. Mary’s Hospital and Lectureron Clinical Medicine.

THOS. WHIPHAM, M.D., F.R.C.P.,Physician to St. George’s Hospital.

W. CAYLEY, M.D., F.R.C.P.,Physician to the Middlesex Hospital.

G. FIELD BLANDFORD, M.D., F.R.C.P.,Lecturer on Psychological Medicine, St. George’s

Hospital.F. DE HAVILLAND HALL, M.D., F.R.C.P.,

Physician to the Westminster Hospital.Dec. 14th.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OFENGLAND.

AN ordinary meeting of the Council was held on Dec. 8th,the President, Sir WILLIAM MAC OORMAC, Bart., being inthe chair.A report was read from the Board of Examiners in Dental

Surgery recommending the Council to express their approvalof the recommendations of the General Medical Council asto the course of study and examination for Licences in DentalSurgery, as the recommendations appeared to be in all im-

portant particulars similar to the regulations of the College.The Board did not advise the issue of schedules defining therange of examination in anatomy and surgery, as in theiropinion it would probably lead to a system of cramming.The report was adopted.The Council also adopted a report from the Committee of

Management. It contained the synopsis of practicalpharmacy based on the new Pharmacopoeia and intendedto come into force on May lst, 1899, it recommended thatthe examination in materia medica and pharmacy applicableonly to candidates under the old regulations should be con-ducted in future in viva voce only on accouut of the smallnumber of candidates now eligible under those regulations ;and the committee requested that in consequence of a

lesire expressed by the teachers and examiners in physiologyhat there should be an examination in practical physiologyhey might be empowered to consider the question, to take,he opinions of the several medical schools, and to report to;he College on a future occasion.The Council having been informed that the name of a

Member of the College had been erased from the MedicalRegister called upon the Member to show cause why he shouldlot be removed from being a Member of the College.A letter was read from Sir William Turner, President of

jhe General Medical Council, enclosing a copy of two clausesirafted with the object of amending the Medical Acts so asto prevent persons whose names have been erased from theMedical Register for a criminal offence or for professionalmisconduct from using any title, diploma, or degree so longas the erasure remains in force, and inquiring whether suchclauses are approved by the Council of the College. Thematter was referred to the Discipline Committee.The PRESIDENT reported the proceedings at the annual

meeting of Fellows and Members and stated that in additionto 15 members of the Council there were present 17 Fellowsand 75 Members.The first resolution which was carried at that meeting and

which requested the Council to attempt to remedy thenotorious abuses existing in connexion with medical practice,was referred to the Discipline Committee.The second resolution which requested that the Members

should be allowed to have some share in the election of thegoverning body was considered and it was resolved that" The Council do not consider it either necessary or desirableto reopen the question of the representation of Members onthe Council after the large share of attention which theCouncil have of late given to the matter and after the resultof the recent canvass of the Fellows."The third resolution which requested the Council to express

its disapproval of Fellows and Members of the College actingas the paid officials of any association which employs profes-sional advertisements was referred to the Discipline Com-mittee.The fourth resolution which referred to the granting to the

Members permission to wear a gown was referred to theCommittee for General Purposes.A letter was read from the Board of Trade stating that

owing to the recent revision of the British Pharmacopoeiathe medical scales issued by them for merchant and

passenger ships will require to be amended, and asking theCouncil to nominate two representatives, as they did in 1888,to serve on a committee to be appointed for the purpose ofrevising the scales.Mr. Alfred Willett and Mr. Richardson Cross were nomi-

nated as representatives.The SECRETARY laid before the Council an invitation from

the Imperial Military School of Medicine at St. Petersburgasking the College to send representatives to the celebrationof its centenary at St. Petersburg on Dec. 18th, 1898. Twomembers were nominated.The PRESIDENT reported the delivery of the Bradshaw

Lecture by Mr. T. Pickering Pick on Dec. 7th, the subjectbeing " The Union of Wounds." The best thanks of theCouncil were given to Mr. Pick for his lecture and he wasrequested to publish it.A letter was read from Mr. THOMAS BRYANT reporting the

proceedings of the General Medical Council and he receivedthe thanks of the Council for his services as the repre-sentative of the College.

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Mr. HENRY MORRIS moved :-

That a committee be appointed to consider and report whether anychange, and if so what change, should be made (to the advantage bothof the College and of the candidates) in the conditions under whichcandidates are admitted to the examinations for the Fellowship of theCollege.A committee for this purpose was appointed.

PUBLIC VACCINATORS AND THE NEWVACCINATION ACT.

PUBLIC YACCINATORS AT UPPINGHAM.’ THE public vaccinators of the Uppingham Union held ameeting at the house of the senior practitioner on Dec. 7th,and having agreed upon the terms which they consideredsatisfactory under the provisions of the new Vaccination Act