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91 have more direct influence in the appointment of members of Council.’’ " That in any future Act provision should be made for against were equal: and the Chairman declining to vote, the amendment was declared not carried. An amendment instituting prosecutions by a public prosecutor, or other was then proposed and agreed to:—" That it be remitted toauthorised functionary, instead of leaving the enforcement the Executive and Finance Committees jointly to consider of to the voluntary action of individuals of the and to report on the best means of lessening the expenditure public." of the Council." the discussion several members of the Council The Report of the Committee on Medical Education was strongly protested against these resolutions being brought brought up by Dr. Andrew Wood, and ordered to be entered ! forward on the last day of the session, when it was impossible that they could be discussed, and refused to take part on the Minutes. A proposal was made that copies of the Report should be in the proceedings. The motion for the adoption of the Report was put to sent to the Lord President of the Privy Council and other high functionaries; but the objection being raised that the the Council, but the numbers being equal for and against, Council had not yet approved of the Report, the motion was it was declared not carried. Resolutions were adopted, authorising the President and withdrawn. It was resolved that the Report be taken into consideraCommittee to confer with the Government on tion at the next session of the Council; and that in the the subjects referred to in the Lord President’s letter. The Report of the Ccmmittee on Returns from the meantime it should be submitted to the consideration of the various licensing bodies. Licensing Bodies of Professional Examinations and their The Report of the Committee on Preliminary Education results, and on Registration of Students for 1868, was received and entered on the Minutes. was brought up by Dr. Alex. Wood, and ordered to be enDr. ALEX.WooD brought forward three resolutions, which tered on the Minutes. A debate followed, and eventually the following resoluagreed to, empowering the Branch Council for Engto investigate and take action upon the charges tion was agreed to:-" That the attention of the several medical corporations be drawn to the recommendation (No. brought against Lima Abraham La’Mert. It was moved by Dr. ALEX. WOOD, and agreed to, "That 4 of the Recommendations and Opinions issued by the! Medical Council)-viz., ‘That the examination in generalL the Report of the Committee on the Rearrangement of the education be eventually left entirely to the examining Recommendations and Opinions of the Council on Registra. boards of the national educational bodies recognised by the, tion, Education, and Examination, be received and enteredMedical Council,’ and that their opinion be asked whether. on the Minutes, and that copies of the recommendations be the time has not now arrived when this recommendationl printed and sent as usual to the licensing bodies." " That the following be included in the list of examinashould be carried into effect." tions which are considered sufficient evidence of preliminary in arts : ° Examination of (senior) candidates for HonoraryCertificates under the Local Examinations of MONDAY, JULY 12TH. the University of Scotland;’and ’Voluntary Examinations The greater part of this day was occupied in discussing of College, Canterbury, New Zealand.’ The Report of the Pharmacopoeia Committee, and some the Report of the Committee on Amendment of the Medical other documents, having been received, the usual compliActs. The Report having been received, mentary votes were agreed to, and the business of the session Dr. BENNETT moved, ,That Clause 11 in the proposed terminated. Medical Amendment Act shall stand as follows:—" It shall be lawful for the General Council, by special orders, to dispense with such provisions of the Medical Acts, or with any such parts of any regulations made by the authority of the said Acts, as to them shall seem fit, in favour of persons applying to have their names entered on the Medical A Practical Treatise on Metallurgy. Adapted from the last. German Edition of Professor Kerl’s Metallurgy." By Register in virtue of foreign or colonial diplomas or WILLIAM CROOKES, F.R.S. &c., and ERNEST RÖHRIG, degrees.’ To this an amendment was moved by Sir D. CORRIGAN,Ph.D., M.E. Vol. II. (pp. 876). That it appears desirable, before any further attempt is WE regret that there is so little in this work to interest made to introduce amendments of the Medical Acts, that a medical readers generally that we are not warranted in reRoyal Commission of Inquiry should issue, to take evidence from such members of the Medical Council, and such other viewing it at the length it otherwise deserves. It is cerpersons as the Commission may see fit to examine, with the tainly, so far as it has gone, the most complete work of its view of furnishing a report to serve as the basis for legisla- kind in the English tongue, and is very reliable. The tion." second volume describes very fully the physical and cheAfter considerable debate, the amendment was put to the mical properties of the various ores of copper and iron, the Council and lost, and the motion adopted. It was moved by Dr. CgRZSTisoT, and seconded by Dr. methods of reducing them, the distinctive features and BENNETT :—" That in the opinion of this Council it is de- behaviour of the metals when reduced, and their suitability sirable that power be given to the Medical Council to re- to purposes of commerce. The chemistry of the metallurfuse registration to any one who has not been sufficiently gical operations is amply discussed. One subject of great examined both in medicine and surgery." the re-melting of cast iron, hitherto but little’ To this an amendment was moved by Dr. ANDREW WooD, importance, and seconded by Dr. ’,3LETON :=That it is desirable noticed, occupies the prominent position it merits. On the, that power be given to the Medical Council to refuse regis- other hand, the reader will be disappointed if he seeks for tration to any person who has not both a legal qualification a detailed account of the Bessemer process, one short parain medicine and a legal qualification in surgery." graph being all that is devoted to it. This interesting and The amendment was negatived, and the motion carried. method of treating cast iron, being less frequently The following resolutions were agreed to --,’That, ingenious in used the production of wrought iron than of steel, would, having carefully considered the objects of the Medical Act we of 1858, and the constitution of the Council appointed under suppose, properly come with the latter in the volume yet that Act to carry out its objects, the Council are of opinion to appear. that, for the purposes of the existing Act, the present Council is essentially well constituted." Athletic Training and Health. By JOHN HARRissoN. " That the Council are of opinion that, if the Legislature London: Parker and Co. 1869. should think proper to invest the Council with extensive THis little duodecimo of a hundred pages should be in powers and fresh duties, by which the profession at large of the hands every man training himself for work. It apwould be brought more under the direct influence of the to be the an then in case at should that extension of a paper which obtained the Council, pears profession large

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