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ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OFENGLAND.

THE annual meeting of Fellows and Members of the RoyalCollege of Surgeons was held on Thursday afternoonat the College, Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson, President,in the chair. In opening the proceedings the Presidentreferred at some length to the various topics mentioned inthe Council’s report of transactions during the collegiateyear ending in July last, and congratulated the Fellows andMembers on the progress that had been made in the variousdepartments of College work. With reference to the pointsstill under adjudication in the courts, he stated that if anyresolutions were submitted concerning them he should haveto rule them out of order. As to the question in dispute inregard to the rights of the Members to vote for the Council, itwas the desire of the Council that it should now be allowedto rest. The College was now in a state of prosperity, andit prayed for peace. Dr. Elliston moved the followingresolution:—"That this meeting of Fellows and Membersof the Royal College of Surgeons of England, having con-sidered the Report of the Council dated Oct. 17th, 1889, is ofopinion that immediate steps should be taken to forward theintroduction early in the next Parliamentary session of aBill to amend the canstitution of the College, so as to secureto the Members a just representation in and upon thegoverning body of the College." The resolution wasseconded by Dr. Danford Thomas, and, after a brief dis-cussion, was adopted by a very large majority. A vote ofthanks to the President brought the proceedings to a close.[A full report of the meeting will appear in our next

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Medical News.BANQUET GIVEN BY MR. BURROUGHS.-A dinner

was given on Saturday, the 2nd inst., at Delmonico’s newrestaurant, Paris, by Mr. Burroughs to a number of fellowexhibitors and Paris physicians.ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN.-James

Edmunds, M.D., F.C.S., has been elected a Visitor, in theroom of Edward Pollock, Esq., resigned, who has beenelected a Manager of the Institution, in place of Sir Crichton-Browne, resigned.RABIES.-The number of dogs in England officially

reported during the week ending Oct. 26th as affected withirabies was six against five in the previous week. All werekilled. The distribution was as follows :-London, 2; York,West Riding, 2; and Essex and Kent, 1 each.THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE FUND.-At a meeting of

the committee of the fund this week, it was resolved thatthe Lord Mayor be requested to transmit to M. Pasteur thesum of 40,000 fr., in recognition of the services rendered byhim to 200 British subjects bitten by rabid animals.

BEQUESTS AND DONATIONS TO HOSPITALS.—Thelate Mr. George Stevenson, of Northfields, Clapham Com-mon, bequeathed 9100 each to the Brompton CancerHospital and the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of’the Chest, Brompton, and £50 each to the Victoria Hospitalfor Children and the City of London Truss Society.-TheCommittee of the Leeds Musical Festival, recently held inthat town, have made the following grants to the Leedsmedical charities: The Infirmary, fl527; Dispensary,due470 ; and the Hospital for Women and Children, £352.—An anonymous donation of £150 has been received by thetreasurer of the British Home for Incurables.-The net resultof the bazaar recently held in Inverness, for the benefit of theNorthern Counties Convalescent Home, at the Tradespark,Nairn, amounted to fl027 11s. 8d.-Mr. A. S. Haslam, therecently elected vice-president of the Derbyshire Children’sHospital, has given £100 to the funds of the institution.--The late Mr. J. H. Hunter, of Sheffield, bequeathed, freeof legacy duty, £500 to the Sheffield General Infirmary, £250to the Sheffield Public Hospital and Dispensary, j6250 tothe Jessop Hospital for Women, and £100 to the SheffieldChildren’s Hospital.-The workmen of Messrs. Spencer andSons, Newton Steel Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne, have con-tributed £75 to the Newcastle Royal Infirmary.

THE BECKETT HOSPITAL.-Mr. Alderman Marsden,the Mayor of Barnsley, on Saturday, the 2nd inst., formallypresented to the Governors of the Beckett Hospital anambulance carriage, with complete fittings, provided bypublic subscription, at the cost of upwards of £130.

THE DENTAL HOSPITAL OF LONDON.-The annualdinner of the staff and past and present students will beheld on Saturday, Nov. 30th, at the Holborn Restaurant,under the presidency of Christopher Heath, Esq. Gentle-men either now or formerly connected with the hospital ormedical school who may, through inadvertence, not havereceived special notice, and who desire to be present, arerequested to communicate with the dean at the DentalHospital, 40, Leicester-square.ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND.-The following

Exhibitions and Honours have been awarded :-First Ex-amination in Medicine-Exhibitions: Second Class, £10each (disqualified by University standing), William McMath,Daniel J. O’Connor. Honours: Second Class, WilliamMcMath, Daniel J. O’Connor. Second Examination inMedicine-Exhibitions: First Class, JE25, Alexander J.Blaney. Honours: First Class, A. J. Blaney. ThirdExamination in Medicine-Exhibitions: Second Class, jE20each, Andrew Fullerton, James B. Moore. Honours:Second Class, Andrew Fullerton, J. B. Moore. MedicalDegrees Examination, M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O.-Exhibitions:First Class, £40, John W. Wolfe. Honours: First Class,John W. Wolfe.CRUSADE AGAINST QUACKERY IN BELGIUM.-The

Belgian Medical Federation proposes to make a prolongedand searching inquiry into the existence of quackery,which is illegal in Belgium. In pursuance of this plan theWest Flanders branch of the Federation has just issued acircular to its members, requesting that all illegal acts ofthe kind alluded to may be carefully noted, and the circum.stances, with the full names and addresses of all personsable and willing to bear testimony to them, put down inwriting, and sent in annually about the month of September.Absolute secrecy is guaranteed where it is desired; indeedthe members are authorised, in case they do not like toreport any case to the local members of the profession, tosend their statement direct to head-quarters in Brussels.

ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL GRAPHIC SOCIETY.-OnFriday, Nov. 1st, a meeting was held in the large theatreof the Medical School, Sir Prescott Hewett in the chair,to inaugurate a society for the encouragement of thepictorial and allied arts amongst past and present studentsof the hospital. In opening the meeting the chairmanexpressed his opinion of the extreme value of drawingand painting to the medical man, not only for theactual results produced, but also, if seriously followed, onaccount of the value of the training. The followingresolution was proposed and carried : "That a society beformed in connexion with St. George’s Hospital forthe purpose of encouraging sketching, painting, engrav-ing, modelling, carving, photography, and the arts ofrepresentation in general." Past students of St. George’swho may be desirous of joining the society are requested tosend their names to Dr. Penrose, the hon. secretary, at thehospital.THE DESTRUCTOR " QUESTION.-At the quarterly

meeting of the Yorkshire Branch of the Society of MedicalOfficers of Health, held at the Bradford Town Hall on the29th ult., Dr. McLintock read a paper on " The Treat-ment of Ashpit and other Refuse by means of Fryer’sDestructors, to which Jones’s Cremator and Horsfall’s SteamInjectors have been added." He gave an account of certainworks in the town, from which, despite the "destructor,"had proceeded formerly smells of an offensive character,forming a serious nuisance to the neighbourhood. Afterdescribing the reason of these objectionable productsescaping, he said that the Sanitary Committee saw thedesirability of seeking a remedy. Of all the schemessuggested for the cure of the defect, only two seemed tooffer a hope of success—namely, Jones’s "cremator" andHorsfall’s " steam injectors," and by a happy thought thetwo were combined. The result was a great increase in theheat of the furnace, and a more rapid and effectual con-sumption of the refuse. The destructors now consumed,roundly, about 500 loads of refuse a week, and thisenormous quantity was disposed of in such a way as to berendered quite innocuous.