547 I take the liberty to annex a brief prospectus of the Office, G. P. May, M.D. & L.R.C.S. Edin., Maldon, Essex... £1 1 0 from which you will observe that the rates of premium are William Blathwayt, Louth, Lincolnshire......... 1 0 0 particularly favourable to young lives, and the directors William Reckitt, M.R.C.S.L., Boston, Lincolnshire 1 1 0 venture to hope that you may consider yourself warranted in Jonathan Haigh Branfoot, M.D. & M.R.C.S. Edin., recommending the Institution, as opportunity may offer. 1 1 0 I am, Sir, yours most respectfully, L.S.A.,Edmund BrentwoodGeorge, M.D. ..................... Edin., M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., THOMAS BELL, Actuary. Sandgate, Kent ..... 0 10 0 John Sommers, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Coventry...... 0 10 6 MEDICAL REFORM.—THE-FIVE-HUNDRED Henry Emett, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Liverpool...... 0 10 0 POUNDS FUND. Thomas Blasson, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Billingboro’, Lincolnshire ........................ 1 1 0 THE following is a list of names of the gentlemen who have William Loney, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A, Hartington, successively communicated to the Editor of THE LANCET Derbyshire ........................... 0 10 0 letters announcing their readiness to join in raising a fund to W. Jarvis Highmore, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A, Bradford, 0 place at the disposal of a Committee, which might be ap- Wilts .............................. 10 0 M.R.C.S. & the to watch the of measures Frederick Smith Garlick, L.S.A., Halifax, pointed by subscribers, progress Yorkshire. forward in the the medical brought legislature relative to pro - Frederick Bell Hunt, M.D., F.R.C.P. Edin., &c., and to the interests of the of that fession, guard great body Farningham, Kent ..................... 2 2 0 profession during the proceedings which may now be expected William Ryan, M.B. Lond., M.R.C.S. &c., Oxford- to take place in Parliament. It will be seen, by referring to street, London. Charles A.B. Trin. the last page of the last LANCET, that the Lord Advocate has Wrixon, M.R.C.S.L., Coll., Sey- ............... 0 10 0 announced his intention of a Medical Bill mour-place, Euston-square speedily bringing Richard S. Penkivil, Sampford-Peverel, Devon. before the consideration of the House of Commons: we recom- John Deighton, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Cambridge ... 0 10 6 mend, therefore, to our brethren of the profession who have H.Obre, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Grove-place, Alpha-road. intimated their intention to contribute to the Five-Hundred- James Williams, M.D., M.R.C.S., &c., Leintwardine, near Ludlow ........................ 0 Pounds Fund, to organize themselves into an association with- 10 6 C. Wilson Steel, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Lewisham, Kent I 1 0 out delay, and to appoint a treasurer, or treasurers, to receive Isaac Massey, M.D., M.R.C.S., &c., Nottingham ... 010 6 the snbscriptions, and a committee to undertake the more William Bird Herapath, M.B. Lond., M.R.C.S. &c., active duties of the body thus formed. Bristol.............................. 0 10 0 William Robins, L.S.A., Upper Southwick-street, 1B1. Ryan, M.D., M.R.C.S., Market Drayton, Salop... 010 0 Hyde-park. William Waring Saxton, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A....... 0 10 0 Edwin Hearne, M.B. Lond., & M.R.C.S. &c., South- Richard Tippetts, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Dartford, Kent 2 2 0 ampton. W. F. Lawrence, Surgeon, ditto............... 1 1 0 John Bath ......... 0 10 6 James Rolph, M.R.C.S.E., Bethnal-green-road ... Xl1 1 0 Augustus Lloyd, M.R.C.S., Henry Hadlow, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Jewry-street ... 0 10 0 W.Kenrick Lewis, Wrexham, North Wales...... 0 10 6 M.R.C.S. Exeter ............ 0 10 6 John Currie, L.R.C.S.E., Blackburn, (received) ... 0 10 0 Henry Shaw, &c., William Langston, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Pembridge, William Walker, M.R.C.S. &c., St. John’s-street London ........................ 1 1 0 Herefordshire ........................ 0 10 0 Road, John Charles Atkinson, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Romney- W. Weaver Jones, L.S.A., Cleobury-Mortimer, Sal op 0 10 0 M.R.C.S. & ditto......... 0 10 0 terrace, Westminster, (received) ............ 1 0 0 Henry Vevers, L.S.A., St. John W. Lucas, M.R.C.S. &c., Louth, Lincoln- Thomas Pope, Surgeon, ditto ............... 0 10 0 shire. George Harvey Betts, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Watford, Herts .............................. 1 1 0 Thomas Philbrick, M.D., M.R.C.S., &c., ditto ... 1 0 0 Samuel & Frederick Tate, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., ditto ...... 1 0 0 Gower, M.R.C.S. L.S.A., Hampstead,Mid- & dlesex. Edmund Whitfield, M.R.C.S. L.S.A., Tolleshunt- ___ D’Arcy, Essex ........................ 010 0 William Smyth, M.R.C.S.E. & L.A.C.D., ditto ... 010 0 Caleb Richardson, L.R.C.S. Edin., Skerlaugh, near medical News. Hull .............................. 0 10 0 John Bartlett, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Rushall, Pewsey, APOTHECARIES’ HALL.—Names of gentlemen who passed Wilts .................... 1 0 0 their examination in the science and practice of medicine Luther Owen M.R.C.S.E. & Fox, L.A. C., Broughton, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday, Hants .............................. 0 10 6 Henry Hanson Dearsly, M.R.C.S. & L.A.C., Bridge- May 10th, 1849. NATHANIEL PHILIP. terrace, Harrow-road .................. 0 10 0 BETTS, Henry John Gore, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Worthing... 1 0 BROWN, EDMUND. Llewellyn Llewellyn, M.R.C.S.E., Whitechapel- EVERET, THOMAS DENNY, Stepney-green. THOMAS road, London ........................ 1 1 0 HARDING, MASSEY, Ludlow, Salop. R. A. Ridley, Surgeon, Hereford ............ 1 0 0 HARPER, ROBERT, Brighton. William W. Morgan, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Newport 0 10 6 JONES, JOHN WILLIAMS, Dolgelley. J. J. Ayre, Surgeon, Colne.................. 1 0 0 SAUNDERS, DANIEL, Carmarthen. William Roden, M.D., M.R.C.S., &c., Mayor of the TESTIMONIAL To DR. FORBES.—A meeting of the subscribers Borougli of Kidderminster ............... 0 10 0 to this testimonial took place lately, for the purpose of Theophilus C. Lewis, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., New Kent presenting to the above-named gentleman a very handsome road ............ 0 10 0 piece of plate, designed and executed by Messrs. Smith, of W. Philpot Brookes, M.D., M.R.C.S. &c., Chel- Duke-street. Upwards of one hundred gentlemen attended on tenham.............................. 1 1 0 the occasion. Mr. Stanley, President of the Royal College of John T. Waller, M.R.C.S.L., Flegg-Burgh, Norfolk 010 0 Surgeons, read an address, which had been prepared by the W. Home Popham, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Judd-street, committee. The address stated that the testimonial was London ............ 0 10 6 intended to mark the approbation of many of his professional Edwin Moss, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Wimpole-street, brethren for the manner in which Dr. Forbes had conducted London. the British and Foreign Medical Review, and, also, as a token Paul Jackson, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Thayer-street, of esteem for his manly, disinterested, and truthful character. Manchester-square. To carry out these views, it was mentioned, that many of the George Beaman, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., King-street, most eminent members of the profession, not only in Great Covent-garden. Britain, but in America and the Colonies, had come forward William Harrison, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Gargrave, on the occasion. After presenting the address, Mr. Stanley Yorkshire ........................... 1 0 0 proceeded to say, that he most cordially concurred in its con- Isaac Hargreaves, M.R.C.S. &c., Tunbridige Wells, tents, and that he was gratified at having been chosen as the Kent .............................. 2 2 0 organ of the committee. Dr. Forbes replied in a compli- Frederic Cripps, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A., Soho-square, mentary speech, in which he stated, that while the committee Liverpool ........................... 0 10 6 had done him no more than justice in attributing to him the 548 best intentions in conducting the British and Foreign Medical for administering medical galvanism, requests any of our correspondents Review, yet he could not accept for himself the eulogistic to favour him with " practical information for or against its use, apart terms in which the character and influence of that journal from the exaggeration of interested parties." had been alluded to. It was chiefly to his excellent contri- To the Editor of THE LANCET. butors that the literary merit of the work must be ascribed. SIR,—In a late number of THE LANCET, Dr. W. P. Brookes informed your readers that his of M.D. at St. Andrew’s cost him £105. I His duties had been as a to degree ques- restricted, general rule, supervision tioned the statement; the doctor repeated his assertion, in not over- and correction; it was only occasionally he had appeared as temperate language. I have since then written for the authoritative in- an original contributor. Yet he took credit to himself for formation of the librarian at St. Andrew’s, and beg to enclose to you his from readers will I was correct in £25 having taken the utmost pains to ensure not only able reviews, reply, which your see, that stating 38.