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Corps, and it is satisfactory to know that Northumberland, further resolved that if and when the University College is which was the first county in England to raise a yeomanry merged into the University of the title of the society detachment for service in South Africa, still maintains her shall be changed to "Bristol University Colston Society." interest in the voluntary national defences. Hospital Sunday Fund in Bristol. University of Durham Act. At a meeting of the council of the Bristol Hospital The University of Durham Act sub-committee of the Sunday Fund, held on Feb. 22nd, it was reported that up to Durham County Education Authority has considered the the present £1514 had been received. It was decided at once question of seeking representation on the new senate of to grant E522 to the Royal Infirmary ; E433 to the General Durham University and has resolved that a committee Hospital ; E162 to the Children’s Hospital ; and E78 to the should represent the education authority before the Com- Eye Hospital..E45 were granted to three of the smaller missioners appointed under the Act, in order to urge the medical charities. desirability of granting the authority representation on the Dr. Thomas Dover. senate and the council of the Durham colleges. The grounds The Bristol Times and Mirror of Feb. 27th contains some upon which this representation is to be urged are not stated interesting notes in reference to Dr. Thomas Dover who nor do reasons appear why such representation is desirable. "invented" " the well-known Dover’s powder (pulv. ipecac.). The Durham County Education Authority appears to have no In Bristol Dr. Dover is chiefly associated with the locus standi whatever in the University. If it contributed I Duke (of Duke and D2zchoss fame), which sailed from that a sum of money yearly towards the expenses of education in port in 1708. commanded the expedition the University the education authority might think it desir- and he made Thomas Dover captain of the Duke, with in own interest that it should able its have representa- excellent results to the venture. Dover acted as captain of on the of the as tion governing body University, but it the Marines, he sacked Guayaquil, and it was his ship that contributes nothing to the University chest even this possibly rescued . When sickness (a "plague") conceivable claim vanishes. broke out among the sailors he is said to have cured nearly Glasgo7v University Club. 200 of them. Dr. Dover’s name is mentioned repeatedly in The annual dinner of the North of England Glasgow Woodes Rogers’s diary and he often acted as president of councils of war. University Club was held on Feb. 18th. The guests Union. of the evening were Sir Hector C. Cameron, pro- University College fessor of clinical surgery in Glasgow University, and Sir The Medical Dramatic Society gave its annual perform- Thomas Oliver. The dinner was preceded by an address ance at the All Saints’ Hall, Clifton, from Feb. 15th to 20th,’ given by Sir Hector Cameron in the Medical Theatre of the the play performed being Grossmith’s Jedbury Jqtnior, which College of Medicine, at which a large number of medical proved very popular. The actual total of the receipts is not men and students were present. Sir Hector Cameron chose yet known but it is certain that it will be a substantial sum. for his subject " Some Clinical Facts regarding Mammary It is to be devoted to reduction of the debt still remaining Cancer " and in the course of a most interesting paper from the purchase and finishing of the union’s new athletic reviewed the results of his very large experience of malignant ground. disease, especially from the point of view of prognosis. The Bristol General Hospital. conclusion at which he had arrived was that it was im- At a special meeting on Feb. 23rd the committee of the possible in malignant disease to give a prognosis with any hospital elected Miss A. E. Densham to fill the post of certainty of being right whatever the condition at the time, matron about to be vacated by Miss A. J. Angus. Miss the patient was first seen. Densham was trained at Leeds, where she acted as night Northumberland and Durham Medical Society. superintendent and as assistant matron to the General for the four years she has held the of Sir Lauder Brunton has to an address on Infirmary ; past post promised give matron to the General The Treatment of Heart Disease" before the members of; Northampton Infirmary. March . 2nd. this society on Thursday, March 18th. The annual dinner will be held the same evening, when Sir Lauder Brunton will be the guest of the society. WALES AND WESTERN COUNTIES NOTES. March 2nd. ______(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) BRISTOL. School Inspection in the County of Carmarthen. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) AT the beginning of last year the Carmarthenshire Educa- tion Committee appointed several private practitioners in the University of Bristol. county to conduct the medical inspections of school children until the end of 1908 for a fee of ls. child examined. Mr. E. Wills’s recent donation of f.l0,000 has per Chaning were instructed to examine those children admitted the fund to taken They brought University up .6200,000, which, since Jan. and those to leave school with in the form of valued at lst, 1908, likely together property buildings before the end of December, 1908. The last Code issued by f.55,000, overpasses the of f.250,000 fixed the figure by Privy the Board of Education an examination to be made Council as the minimum at which the requires capital University of children who will leave before the end of next the start. There have been 19 donors of £1000 or July ; might education committee asked the medical in- of seven are members of the Wills consequently upwards ; these, family, had been to continue their whose benefactions added amount to spectors who appointed inspections together f.161,OOO. until that date. A fee of 1s. had been found to be At a meeting held on Feb. 27th the governors of University already quite and in an interview which the medical College confirmed the resolution them at a pre- inadequate, gentlemen adopted by a of it vious meeting approving the Bill for dissolving the College had with subcommittee the education committee was that in future it should be 2s. 6d. and transferring its property and liabilities to the University mutually arranged of Bristol. The Mr. Lewis of the loss per child, with an allowance of ls. per mile for travelling mover, Fry, spoke i sustained by the in the deaths of Sir Frederick Wills beyond the first five miles. When this proposal, which College does err on and Mr. E. Thomas, and said that the Bill in not the side of extravagance, for the medical Harry approved officer has to not the their resolution had passed its first in the House of transport only himself to schools but reading also a machine Lords The of Bristol, who seconded the weighing and other apparatus, came before unopposed. Bishop the full committee several members of the resolution, anticipated some delay but no serious opposition spoke indignantly rate of 2s. 6d. child, and it was resolved to its passage through the House. high per eventually to offer a fee of ls. 6d. per child. The practitioners of the University College Colston Society. district will be well advised if they refuse to accept these The collections made in connexion with the University lowered terms and insist upon those which were agreed to College Colston Society since its establishment in 1900 have by responsible members of the commiteee. A proposal of realised a total of £5258. At the tenth of the series of the subcommittee to pay E25 to one of the medical inspectors dinners, held in January last, a sum of £521 was received, for preparing the annual report required by the Board of so that the committee has been enabled to vote Z550 Education was negatived by the committee, and it was towards the sustentation fund of University College. It decided to offer the absurdly low sum of .610, which would