PROVINCIAL MEDICAL AND SURGICAL ASSOCIATION.

572 20a members from differ" PROVINCIAL MEDICAL AND SUR- arrival of nearly the of ent kingdom Dr. CARRICK parts GICAL ASSOCIATION.

unanimously called to the chair. Amongst the company were-

was

FIRST ANNIVERSARY MEETING.-DINNER AT THE BRISTOL INFIRMARY.

[From Felix Farley’s July 20.]

BrzstolJournal of

Saturday

YESTERDAY om infirmary was compli- I mented with the distinguished honour of being the place selected for holding the first anniversary meeting of the above society, in consequence of the very iiunierous list of (Bristol) members, and the respectable support given to the association by the most eminent professional gentlemen of this city. It may be recollected that this society was formed last year at Worcester, an account of which was inserted at the time in our paper; since that period about 200 gentlemen have enrolled their names in the books of the society, which now consists of nearly 400 members, of whom about 50 are residents in this city. The principal objects of this association are-

1st. The collection and publication of useful medical and surgical information, whether speculative or practical, through original essays, or reports of cases occur-

ring in provincial hospitals, infirmaries, dispensaries, or in private practice. 2nd. The improvement of Medical To-

pography.

3rd. The

investigation of Endemic

and

Epidemic Diseases.

4th. The advancement of Medico-legal Science. 5th. Biography of distinguished Medical Characters.

6th. A retrospective annual view of Medical and Surgical Science. 7th. The maintenance of the honour and respectability of the profession ge.

nerally in the provinces, by promoting friendly intercourse and free communication between its members, and by establishing among them that harmony and good feeling which ought ever to characterise a liberal profession. Previously to the commencement of the business of the day, the exterior of the infirmary, the internal arrangement of the wards, the new buildings appropriated solely for the out-patients, the museum, the library, the lecture-room, and the whole economy of the institution, became an obof general attraction and approbation. At eleven o’clock the Members of the Council met in the Infirmary Committee-

ject

room, at one

preliminary to

the

general meeting

o’clock, about which hour this institution presented a scene of unusual

professional

ardour and

interest, by the

Alexander, Mr., Corsham. Alford, Mr., Taunton. Barlow, Dr., Bath. Baron, Dr., Cheltenham. Batt, Mr., Abergavenny. Beddome, Mr., Romsey, Hants. Bevan, Dr., Monmouth. Bird, Mr. G., Swansea. Bisdee, Mr., West Town. Blackmore, Dr., Bath. Bompass, Dr., Fishponds. Brewer, Mr., Newport, Wales. Browne, Mr., Bath. Burridge, Dr., Barnstable. Carden, Mr., Worcester. Carden, Mr., Gloucester. Church, Mr., Bath. Collins, Mr., Chew Magna. Conolly, Dr., Warwick. Conolly, Dr., Cheltenham. Crang, Mr., Hallatrow. Crawford, Mr., Shrewsbury. Dick, Dr. Paris, Castle Cary. Eastment, Mr., Wincanton. Edwards, Mr., Wiveliscombe. Edwards, Mr., Keynsham. Evans, Mr., Chepstow. Fewster, Mr., Thornbury. Field, Dr., Worcester. Flower, Mr., Chilcompton. Forbes, Dr., Chichester. Fox, Mr., Cerne, Dorset. George, Mr., Bath. Gill, Mr., Wolverhampton. Gingell, Dr., Thornbury. Golborne, Mr., Chippenham. Gore, Mr., Bath. Greville, Mr., Yatton. Griffiths, Mr., Wrexham. Griffiths, Mr. J., Hereford. Hastings, Dr., Worcester. Hay, Mr., Bath. Hebb, Mr,, Worcester. Holbrook, Dr., Monmouth. Hovenden, Mr., Bath. James, Mr., Wrington. Jennings, Mr., Leamington. Kenrick, Mr., Melksham. Kilvert, Mr., Bath. Lloyd, Dr., Ludlow. Lovell, Mr., St. George’s. Malden, Dr., Worcester. Marshall, Mr., Shepton Mallet. Martin, Mr., Reigate, Surrey. M’Donald, Mr., Yatton., Moger, Mr., Bath. Morris, Mr., Worcester. Norman, Mr., Bath. Ormond, Mr., Bath. Pope, Mr., Temple Cloud.

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Prince, Mr., Bath. Proud, Mr., Wolverhampton. Rumsey, Mr., Beaconsfield. Sainsbury, Dr., Corsham. Seagram, Mr., Warminster, Sealey, Dr., Bath.

The morning business being concluded, the company separated, and met again at six o’clock, with several additional members, and sat down to dinner in the spa-

Selwyn, Mr. Ledbury. Selwyn, Mr., Ledbury. Smith, Mr., Great Somerford. Soden, Mr., Bath. Spender, Mr., Bath. Streeton, Dr., Worcester. Sully, Dr., Taunton. Sully, Dr., Cheltenham. Toderick, Dr., Bath. Toogood, Mr., Bridgewater. Tudor, Mr., Bath. Waldron, Mr., Bath. Wickham, Mr., Didmarton. Williams, Mr., South Brent. Woodforde, Dr., Wells.

And many other gentlemen, including most of the resident faculty of this city and neighbourhood. Letters were also received from the following distinguished individuals, expressing regret at their inability to attend the meeting:-

Boraisgan, Dr., Cheltenham. Darwall, Dr., Birmingham. Davies, Dr., Presteign. Goldie, Dr., Shrewsbury. James, Mr., Exeter. Jeffreys, Dr., Liverpool. Jones, Dr. Phillips, Denbigh. Johnstone, Dr. E., Birmingham. Johnstone, Dr. J., Birmingham. Kerr, Dr., Northampton. Kidd, Dr., Oxford. Lloyd, Dr., Ludlow, Salop. Mash, Mr., Northampton. Robinson, Dr., Northampton. Rumsey, Dr., Amersham. Squires, Dr., Liverpool. Terry, Mr., Northampton. Thackery, Dr., Cambridge. Thomson, Dr., Str,tford.

cious banqueting room at Ivatt’s Hotel, when Dr. CARRICK again took the chair, and Mr. R. SMITH and Mr. HETLING acted as Vice-Presidents. Nothing could exceed the harmony and conviviality of the party; several toasts and speeches were given during the course of the evening, applicable to the occasion, and the company did not rise from this social and intellectual entertainment until a late hour, and separated under the most gratifying prospects of meeting again next year at Birmingham, with increasing success and prosperity. There never has been, on any occasion, such an assemblage of provincial talent and character convened together either in this or any other country, and altogether forming a new era in the history of the profession. It is but justice to Mr. Ivatts to state, that the turtle, dessert, wine, and every arrangement respecting the dinner, were such as to do him the highest credit, and

consequently gained universal satisfaction.

PROPOSED CHARTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.

To the Edztar of THE LANCET.

SIR,—The London University is looked upon by every well-wisher to the education of the people with delight. It is an antagonist that is about to try its strength with Oxford, Cambridge, and other Universities, which are based upon the exclusive principle, admitting none to their honours but upon the presumed safeguard of a peculiar creed. The giant will prevail, if he be not manacled by the chains prepared by Exclusiveness. The proposed &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. charter will be either the developer or the Dr. CARRICK opened the meeting with destroyer of his glorious manhood. If an introductory and luminous speech. made upon the liberal principle, that all Dr. HASTINGS, Hon. Secretary to the can apply to be admitted to the collegiate Society, then read a Report from the honours of the Universitv, Mo matter where Council; after which several resolutions educated, the London Universitv will be were carried, and a Council was formed to : majesty; but if the exclusive conduct and manage the affairs of the principle be acted upon, and all, save those Association. The business of the Society few who have been educated within the walls of the University, are to be excluded being so far completed, Dr. BARLOW, of Bath, delivered an elo- from sharing in the Collegiate honours, quent and learned address, containing a then the London University will be an retrospective view of the state of medical object of disgust to every lover of freedom and surgical science, which occupied near- in science, and to every hater of monoly an hour. This oration was receivedwith poly. universal satisfaction and delight, and unaThis leads me, Sir, to express my astonimously ordered to be inserted in the next nishment that the private lecut1’ers of Lon. volume of the Transactions of the Society. don (and let it be remembered, that the

! glorious in its