THE REFORM OF THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS.

708 THE REFORM OF THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. As we write the report of the commission at present sitting Mr. Brodrick’s scheme for the reform of the Royal Army Medical Corps is on the eve of being made public ; in fact, before we go to press, the scheme may be in the hands of our readers, for we understaad that it only requires the Royal sign-manual to be promulgated. We have reason to believe that the terms offered to the Royal Army Medical Corps under this scheme will be found to be liberal and that the desires of the profession will be met by conferring advantages on those who display professional zeal and ability. on

DR. ALFRED EDWARD AUST LAWRENCE, consulting physician accoucheur at the Bristol General Hospital and professor of midwifery and diseases of women in University College, Bristol, died suddenly last week while on a holiday with his family at Bishopsteignton, Devon.

students will take place the same evening at 7 o’clock at the Trocadéro Restaurant, under the presidency of ’Mr. J. Bland. Sutton, F. R. C. S. St. Thomas’s Hospital.-The session will begin on Wed. nesday, Oct. 2nd, when the prizes will be distributed by Major-General Sir Ian Hamilton, K. C. B., in the Governors’ Hall, at 3 P. M. During the afternoon the various departments of the hospital and school will be open for the inspection of visitors. The annual dinner, in which all former and present students are invited to join, will take place the same evening at the Whitehall Rooms, Hotel Metropole, at 6.30 for7 o’clock, Mr. H. H. Clutton in the chair. University College Hospital.-The session will begin on Tuesday, Oct. lst, when an introductory lecture will be given at 4 P. M. by Protessor J. Risien Russell. The Past and Present Students’ Dinner will take place at 6.30 the same evening at the Hotel Cecil ; Sir Richard Douglas

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Westminster Hospital. - The session will begin on Tuesday, Oct. 1st. The annual dinner will take place on Oct. 4th, Mr. Charles Stonham, F. R. C. S., in thechair. The secretaries of the dinner are Mr. E. Canny Ryall, F. R. C. S., and Mr. W. Turner, F. R. C. S. London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women.-The school will reopen on Tuesday, Oct. lst, when the introductory address will be given by Dr. F. W. Andrewes at 4 P.M. London School of Tropical Medicine.-The session will begin on Tuesday, Oct. lst.

SURGEON-GENERAL H. SKEY MUIR, Deputy DirectorGeneral of the Royal Army Medical Corps, has been offered extension of service to Dec. 31st next, instead of retiring by age on Oct. 4th. This officer is now on leave of absence until about Sept. 25th,.and officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps writing more or less officially for information are requested to note this. Such correspondence should be Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.-The directed to the Deputy Director-General if a reply is desired. address will be given on Oct. 1st at 3 P.M., by inaugural Professor Ramsay, F.R.S. Dental Hospital of London.-The session will commence Oct. lst. on OPENING OF THE MEDICAL SCHOOLS: National Dental Hospital and CollegP.-The session will WINTER SESSION 1901-1902. commence on Tuesday, Oct. lst. PROVINCIAL. LONDON. session will begin on of University Birmingham.-The St. Bartholomem’s Hospital.-The session will begin on Oct. 1st. Tuesday, Tuesday, Oct. lst. The old students’ dinner will be held on University College, Bristol.-The session will begin on the same evening in the great hall of the hospital at 6.30 for Oct. lst. Tuesday, 7 o’clock, Mr. W. J. Walsham, F. R. C. S., in the chair. U,niversity College, Cardiff.-The session will begin on The session will begin on Charing-cross Hospital. Oct. 7th. Monday, Wednesday, Oct. 2nd, when Mr. J. W. Taylor, F.R.C.S., Yorkshire College, Leeds.-The session will begin on Professor of Gynascology in the University of Birmingham, Oct. 1st. Sir William S. Church will deliver the Tuesday, will deliver an introductory address at 4 P. M. The old address on the following day. introductory students’ dinner will be held at the Hotel Cecil on Tuesday, ’ of D2crham.-The session in the Medical University Oct. 22nd. will begin on Tuesday, Oct. lst. Faculty St. George’s Hospital.-The session will begin on Tuesday, University College, Liverpool.-The session will begin on Oct. lst, with an introductory address at 4 P.M. by Dr. Oct. lst. The opening address will be delivered Tuesday, P. W. Latham. The annual dinner will be held on the same and the prizes distributed on Saturday, Oct. 12th, by evening at the Hotel Metropole at 6.30 for 7 o’clock, when the Professor Lodge of Birmingham. chair will be taken by Mr. Warrington Haward. Owens College, Manchester.-The session will begin on Guy’s Hospital.-The session will begin on Tuesday, Tuesday, Oct. lst. Oct. lst, on the evening of which day a house dinner of the Sheffield.-The session will begin on University College, Students’ Club will take place in the college dining hall. Oct. 1st, when Sir Thomas Barlow, Bart., K.C.V.O" Tuesday, Application for tickets to the dinner should be made to will deliver an introductory address. Mr. A. W. Ormond, the secretary of the Students’ Club, SCOTLAND. Guy’s Hospital, S. E. The first meeting of the Physical in the new at will be held Theatre Aberdeen.-The session will commence on Physiological Society University of 8 P. M. on Saturday, Oct. 5th. Sir Samuel Wilks, Bart., ’, Tuesdav, Oct. 15th. F. R. S., will preside, and a paper will be read by Mr. S. W. University of St. Andrews (United Colleges of St. Andrews Mac Ilwaine on Disease and its Causation. After the meeting and University College, Dundee).-The session will open on a conversazione will be held in the new laboratories and Wednesday, Oct. 9th. All past and present students are cordially class-rooms. University oj Edinburg.-The session will begin on invited to the meeting. Tuesday, Oct. 15th. King’s College Hospital.-The session will begin on University of Glasgow.-The session will open on Tuesday, Oct. lst. The old student’s dinner will be held in Thursday, Oct. 17th. the evening at the Hotel Cecil, when Mr. Paul Swain, Anderson’s College, Glasgow.-The session will begin on Thursday, Oct. 17th. F. R. C. S., will take the chair. London Hospital.-The session will begin on Tuesday, St. Mungo’s College, Glasgow.-The session will begin on Oct. lst. The old students’ dinner will be held in the Thursday, Oct. 17th. college library, Dr. F. J. P. Daly in the chair. Queen Margaret College, Glasgow.-The session will begin St. Mary’s Hospital.-The session will begin on Tuesday, on Thursday, Oct. 17th. Oct. lst, with an introductory lecture by Dr. G. William IRELAND. Hill, aural surgeon. The annual dinner of past and present Queen’s College, Belfast.-The session will begin on students will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 3rd, at the Tuesday, Oct. 15th. Whitehall Rooms, Hotel Metropole, Colonel A. B. R. Myers Queen’s College, Cork.-The session will begin on in the chair. Thursday, Oct. 17th. The lectures will commence on Middlesex Hospital.-The session will begin on Tuesday, Monday, Oct. 21st. Oct, lst, when Mr. T. H. Kellock, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.S., University of Dublin.-The session will begin on Thursday, will give an introductory address, after which the prizes Oct. 10th. gained during the previous year will be distributed by Lord Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.-The session will Haward. de Walden. The annual dinner of past and present commence on Tuesday, Oct. 1st. -