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AT the usual meeting of the Metropolitan Asylums Board ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL AT NETLEY. on the 31st ult., a letter from the Admiralty was read, stating that if the managers wished to keep the ships Atlas THE winter session of the Army Medical School ter- which were lent some the and Endymion, years ago by minated on the 2nd inst., when the prizes were distributed on an to meet the outbreak of Admiralty emergency before a large company assembled in the lecture-room of must be the Atlas infectious disease, they paid for, being the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley. The War Office was valued at £8400 and the Endymion at .E6500. It was represented by Dr. Crawford, LL.D., Director-General of the unanimously resolved that an answer be sent to the effect Medical Department of the Army; and the Office by that the managers would purchase the vessels; but that, Sir Joseph Fayrer, K.C.S.I., Physician to the Council of having regard to the fact that the managers were the India. At the invitation of the Senate of the School, Sir administrators of poor rates, they would be glad if the James Paget, F.R.S., presented the prizes to the successful Admiralty could see their way, after further consideration of competitors. The names of the surgeons on who passed suc- all the circumstances of the case, to reduce the amounts probation cessfully through the course of special instruction for the named. ___ medical departments of the British and Indian services, a list of whom will appear in our next, were read by Surgeon- AT the request of the committee formed for the establish- General Longmore, C.B., together with the reports of the ment of a British Hospital at Port Said, who met for the results of the examinations, intended for the information of the Secretaries of State for War and first time on the 31st has issued an India. ult., Lady Strangford Sir James then distributed the for funds for A site for the hos- Paget awards, accompany- appeal building purposes. ing each with appropriate remarks to the recipient, and after- was some a suited to the pital given years ago ; plan, climate, wards delivered an eloquent address to the young military of a compact, one-storeyed building, to hold forty beds, has surgeons, which occupied half an hour, and was listened to- been approved; the furniture, linen, &c., are on the spot throughout with the most marked attention by the whole The text of the discourse be said to have. waiting to be used; and, most important of all, a sufficient assembly. may been a from a civilian’s of view of an income for the maintenance of the is secure. All survey point army hospital surgeon’s professional career and responsibilities under the that is needed is money for the structure itself. The object peculiar circumstances incidental to military life, especially is a good one, and we trust that Lady Strangford’s request when on active service in the field, and a comparison between for assistance will not be made in vain. them and the career and responsibilities of a surgeon in a. large sphere of civil practice. A hope was strongly ex- pressed by many present that Sir James Paget would consent. to his address hereafter in extenso. THE front page engraving of the Animal World for being published The after a few well-chosen remarks on Feb. 1st the inside of the accident ward of Director-General, depicts Charing- the address delivered by Sir James Paget, added his con- cross and Mr. the Hospital, Dodson, house-surgeon, engaged gratulations and best wishes to the young surgeons who in bandaging the leg of the injured dog, whose sagacity was were just entering the ranks of the public service. The- a theme of comment, a short time ago, in almost every business of the session was then closed, and the company were luncheon the newspaper in the kingdom. subsequently entertained at by principal and other medical officers in the spacious mess-room of the’ officers’ quarters in the hospital. WE have great pleasure in calling the attention of our readers to the resolutions passed at a meeting held on the 15th ult., and reported on another page, in reference to the THE MACLEAN MEMORIAL. proposal to mark, by a suitable memorial, public and of the professional appreciation important services rendered AT a meeting held on the 15th ult., at the residence of’ by Dr. Maclean, C.B., during his tenure of the chair of Surgeon-General Sir Joseph Fayrer, K.C.S.I., the following Medicine at a he is about to Military Netley, post which resolutions were unanimously adopted :- vacate. ___ 1. Proposed by Director-General T. Crawford, M.D., and seconded by Deputy Surgeon-General J. A. Marston: "That THE Opinione, the leading journal in , announces a representative committee, composed of members of the that on the 1st inst. an illustrious guest (ospite illustre), in Public Medical Services, be formed for the purpose of taking the of the celebrated Prof. T. H. steps to mark by a suitable memorial their high appreciation person English naturalist, of the services of Professor W. C. President of the of assisted distinguished Maclean, Huxley, Royal Society , C.B., M.D., on the occasion of his retirement from the chair at that day’s sitting of the Royal Academy of the Lincei, of of Military Medicine in the Army Medical School at Netley." which he is Corresponding Fellow. 2. Proposed by Surgeon-General Sir Joseph Fayrer, K.C.S.I., seconded by Surgeon-General W. A. Mackinnon, C.B.: "That the following gentlemen be requested to act as a committee for of out the THE Demerara Daily Chronicle records the death, on provisional the purpose carrying with to add to their number:.:. December of Dr. Cameron of The deceased foregoing resolution, power 27th, Georgetown. Surgeon-General Sir Joseph Fayrer, K.C.S.I., Bengal Medical was health officer of the port, chairman of the Board of Service (retired); Surgeon-General Sir W. Guyer Hunter, Poor-law Commissioners, and health officer of the city, and K.C.M.G., Bombay Medical Service (retired); Surgeon- was greatly respected in the colony, where he had practised General W. A. Mackinnon, C.B.,Army Medical Staff; Inspector- General of H. Medical Service for over a quarter of a century. Hospitals Macpherson, Bengal (retired); Inspector-General J. D. Macdonald, F.R.S., Naval Medical Service; Deputy Surgeon-General J. A. Marston,. DR. EUGÈNE BODICHON, known in connexion with Army Medical Staff ; Surgeon-Major J. L. Paul, Madras chiefly Medical H. his efforts to into notice the of the Service ; Brigade Surgeon Cayley, Bengal bring febrifuge qualities Medical Service; Fleet-Surgeon Walter Reid, Naval Medical Eucalyptus globulus, died on the 28th ult. at Algiers, aged Service; Surgeon-Major K. McLeod, Bengal Medical Ser- and seventy-four. - vice ; Secretaiy Treasurer—Surgeon-Major K. McLeod ; Bankers-Messrs. Grindlay and Co., 55, Parliament-Street, PROFESSOR GUIDO BACCELLI has been elected President of London, S.W." the Royal Academy of Medicine of Rome. 3. Proposed by Surgeon-General W. A. Mackinnon, C.B., seconded by Brigade Surgeon H. Cayley : " That the amount of subscription be limited to .61 I.?." AT Hull on the 2nd inst., a man was fined forty 4. Proposed by Surgeon-General Sir Joseph Fayrer, shillings and costs for having exposed his son whilst K.C.S.I., seconded by K. McLeod: "That the from Surgeon-Major suffering small-pox. proposed memorial take the form of a portrait of Professor