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Medical News.APOTHECARIES’ HALL.--The following gentlemen

passed their examination in the Science and Practice of Medi-cine and received certificates to practise on the 25the ult.:-

Elliot, David, Kewcastle-on-Tyne.Hickman, Richard Murhall, Leaton, near Shrewsbury.Ward, Frederic Henry, Finchley-road, Walworth.Wilby, John Burdett, Leicester.

EXTRAORDINARY MUNIFICENCE.—The funds of someof our metropolitan hospitals have been increased by the follow-ing handsome bequests under the will of a wealthy and generousLondon tradesman, Mr. Cuthbert Collings, of Southgate, Mid-dlesex:-The London Hospital, £4000 ; Royal Free Hospital,2000; the Small-pox Hospital, f:2000; the Great NorthernHospital, £2000 ; the City of London Hospital for Diseases ofthe Chest, Victoria-park, £2000 ; the London Fever Hospital,£1000 ; the Royal Hospital for Incurables, Putney, £1000 ;the Metropolitan Free Hospital, Devonshire-square, £1000 ;the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, £1000;and to the Newcastle Infirmary, £1000. Altogether, this

good man bequeathed £17,000 to medical charities alone, anda sum of f:7000 to other institutions not strictly medical,making a grand total of £24, 000.

DR. BLACKBURN, accused of attempting to introducethe yellow fever into New York by distributing infectedclothing from Bermuda, has been arrested in Montreal on thecharge of having committed a breach of the neutrality laws.

NORFOLK AND NORWICH HOSPITAL. - His RoyalHighness the Prince of Wales has signified his intention ofbecoming a subscriber of ten guineas yearly to this hospital.

MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS.J. F. ARMSTRONG, M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Surgeon to the Hutton

Charity Dispensary, Reeth, Yorkshire, vice J. B. M’CoIlah, M.B.C.S.E.,deceased.

G. G. BornwELL, M.R.C.S.E., ha.s been appointed Medical Officer for theWorkhouse at Underwood, and for District No. 1 of the Plympton St.Mary Union, Devonshire, vice S. H. Pode, M.R.C.S.E., resigned.

J. BURTON, L.R.C.P.Ed., has been appointed a Public Vaccinator for theWalsall Union, Staffordshire.

Dr. J. CLAEKE has been elected Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator forthe Dunleer Dispensary District of the Ardee Union, Co. Louth, vice J.Carroll, L.R.C.S.I., deceased.

W, F. FENTON, L.R.C.P.Ed., has been elected Medical Officer and PublicVaccinator for the Clogheen Dispensary District of the Clogheen Union,Co. Tipperary, vice R. Walsh, L.R.C.P.Ed., resigned.

C. ST. AUBYN HAWKEN, M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed House-Physician tothe Westminster Hospital, vice G. E. L. Pearse, L.S.A., whose appoint-ment has expired.

F. C. JENNINGS, M.R.C.S.E., has been elected Medical Officer and PublicVaccinator for the Township of Wakefield in the Wakefield Union, viceE. Walker, M.R.C.S.E., deceased.

A. MACKAT, M.D., has been elected Medical Officer and Public Vaccinatorfor the District of Badenoch, Laggan, Inverness-shire, vice J. B. M’Leod,M.D., resigned.

P. MARTIN, 31.R.C.S.E., has been appointed one of the Surgeons to theAbingdon Dispensary, vice J. F. Martin, L.F.P. & S. Glas., deceased.

F. E. PEARSE, L.B.C.P.Ed., has been appointed Public Vaccinator for theSampford-Peverell District of the Tiverton Union, vice A. Taylor,lI1.R.C.S.E., resigned.

G. E. L. PEARSE, L.S.A., has been appointed House-Surgeon to the West-minster Hospital, vice C. St. Aubyn Hawken, M.R.C.S.E., whose appoint-ment has expired.

A. PENNINGTON, M.R.C.S., has been appointed Surgeon to the WarringtonPolice Force.

G. B. Pnmsox, M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer and PublicVaccinator for the Sherburn District of the Scarborough Union, viceMartin, resigned.

H. J. PHILPOT, M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed a Public Vacninator for thePresteign Union, Radnorshire, vice G. H. Holden, M.R.C.S.E., deceased.

J. C. PRITCHARD, M.R.C.S.E., has been elected Medical Officer and PublicVaccinator for the Putney District of the Wandsworth and ClaphamUnion, vice R. H. Whiteman, L.R.C.P.Ed., resigned.

0. N. ROYLE, F.R.C.S., has been appointed Hon. Surgeon to the Westmore-land Orphan Asylum.

W. STEVBNTON, M.D., has been appointed Medical Officer for the PresteignUnion, vice E. M. Tearne, M.R.C.S.E., deceased.

T. TWEEDALE, M.R.C.S.E., District Inspecting Surgeon of Factories, hasbeen elected Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator for the StainlandDistrict of the Halifax Union, vice W. Brook, L.S.A., deceased.

J. R. WILLAN, M.D., has been appointed Medical Officer for the Haxey Dis-trict of the Gainsborough Union, Lincolnshire, vice S. Ross, M.R.C.S.E.,deceased.

W. G. Yoaxa, M.D., has been elected Medical Officer and Public Vaccinatorfor District No. 5 of Barony Parish, Lanarkshire, vice T. Christie,F.F.P. & S. Glas., resigned.

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MILITARY AND NAVAL MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS.

A. L. ARCHER, M.D., Surg. R.N., has been appointed to the "Indus" (addi-tional) Gnardship of Reserve at Devonport.

J. H. C. CONSTABLE, L.K.Q.C.P.I., has been appointed Assist.-Surg. to theLondon Irish Rifle Volunteer Corps.

G. F. DUFFY, M.B., Staff Assist.-Surgeon Army, has been appointed Assist.-Surg. to the 24th Foot.

J. A. GAVEN, Assist.-Surg. R.N., has been appointed to the " Princess Royal"as a Supernumerary.

E. A. HUDSON, Assist.—Surgeon R.N., has been appointed to the PrincessRoyal" as a Supernumerary.

F. L. LOGAN, 11,1.D., has been appointed Assist.-Surg. to the 1st Berwick-on-Tweed Artillery Volunteer Corps, vice Kirkwood, deceased.

G. PARK, M.D., Assist.-Surg. Supernumerary in the 52nd Foot, has been ap-pointed Staff Assist.-Surgeon Army, vice Wales, appointed to the RoyalArtillery.

H. J. RosE, L.E.C.S.I., Assist.-Surg. from the 2nd Foot, has been appointedStaff Assist.-Surg. Army, vice Duffy, M.B., appointed to the 2th Foot.

J. S. SMITH has been appointed Assist.-Surgeon to the 4th cr Duke of Lan-easter’s Own (Light Infantry) Regt. of Royal Lancashire Militia, vice

. C. White, M.R.C.S.E., promoted.S. J. F. STAFFORD, M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Assist.-Surgeon to the

Norfolk Artillery Regt. of Militia, vice Macintosh, resigned.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths.BIRTHS.

On the lOtii of April, at Egmore, Madras, the wife of Dr. 12. S. Mair, of adaughter.

On the 14th ult., at Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, the wife of C. P. Stevens,F.P,.C.S.E., of a daughter.

On the 22nd ult., at Grand Parade, Brighton, the wife of Dr. C. 1. Beard, ofa daughter.

On the 23rd ul t., at Newport, Fifeshire, the wife of Dr. Stewart, of a daughter.On the 24th ult., at Thetford, Norfolk, the wife of Thos. B. 2,litchell, M.-D.,

F.R.C.S., of a daughter.On the 25th ult., at Newhall-street, Birmingham, the wife of T. Watkin

Williams, JYI.R.C.S.E., of a daughter.On the 25th ult., at Weybridge, the wife of J. Braid, M.D., of a daughter.On the 25th ult., at Cavendish-square, the wife of F. Ilarris, M.D, of a

daughter.On the 26th ult., at Sunderland, the wife of H. 0. Bowman, RT.D., of a son.On the 26th ult., at Cambridge-terrace, Cornwall-road, Dublin, the wife of

E. Haughton, M.D., of a son.On the 27th ult., at Newton-street, Glasgow, the wife of Dr. J. Stirton, of a

daughter.On the 28th ult., at Loohgilphead, Argyleshire, the wife of Hugh Jaokson,

L.F.P. & S. Glas., of a son.On the 29th ult., at Old Kent-road, the wife of Dr. T. Jones, of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.On the 18th nlt., at St. Stephen’s Church, J. E. Dalzell, L.R.C.P.Ed. of West-

bourne-grove, to Isabella Mary Sproston, daughter of E. Yel!and, Esq.On the 24th ult., at Edinburgh, Daniel F. Anderson, Surgeon, of Woolwich,

to Caroline, daughter of J. Douglas, Esq.On the 25th ult., John Craigie, M.R.C.S.E,, to Frances Mary, daughter of the

late John Field, Esq., of Milford.

DEATHS.On the 20th of Jan., at Melbourne, Australia, F. S. Verity, M.D., J.P.On the 7th of April, at Ahmedahab, East Indies, J. H. Wilmot, M.D., Surgeon

Bombay Army.On the 28th of April, W. Brook, L.S.A., of Stainland, Halifax, Yorkshire.On the 21st ult., J. Dunlap, M.D., of Queen’s-terrace, Windsor, aged 63.On the 22nd ult., F. J. Prior, M.R.C.S.E., of North-field House, Tewkesbury,

aged 47.On the 23rd ult., T. Williams, M.D., F.R.S., of Swansea, aged 46.On the 23rd ult., J. B. Phillips, Surgeon, of Towyn, aged 69.On the 27th ult., Dr. Skinner, of Manchester, aged 35.On the 27th ult., at Verulam-terrace, Hammersmith, Wm. Goddard Rogers,

M.R.C.S., &c., late of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, aed 25.On the 28th ult., E. Langlands, L.R.C.S.Ed., of Nethergate, Dundee.BOOKS ETC. RECEIVED.

Mr. J. W. Earle on Fevers.Homes without Hands.Mr. W. Reid on Cattle Diseases.Report of the Cheshire Lunatic Asylum.Report of the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.

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