the library. It is sold (bound) to the members of the Royal Institution, for 10s.; to the public, for A list of the additions is printed annually, and sent to the members.

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In the Upper Library will be found a classified collection of Encyclopædias, Dictionaries, and Textbooks, arranged for immediate reference.

VI A Reading-room for Study.-In this apartment will be found many series of English, French, German, and Italian scientific Memoirs and Journals, and a great number of works on the natural, medical, and mathematical sciences.

VII. A Newspaper Room, in which the principal Journals, Magazines, and Reviews, English and Foreizu, are regularly provided.

A Circulating Library is subscribed to, in order to afford the members an opportunity of seeing the newest books as soon as published.

•.• The Reading and Newspaper Rooms are open every day from Nine in the morning till Eleven in the evening. The Upper Library is open every day from Ten in the morning till Ten in the evening, except on the Fridays during the season, when it is closed at Four in the afternoon.

Terms of Admission: New Members, when proposed, are balloted for at the next General Monthly Meeting, and pay on Admission Ten Guineas (Five Guineas as the first Annual Payment, and Five Guineas as a contribution to the Library Fund); or Sixty Guineas in lieu of all payments.

Members

are admitted to ALL Lectures delivered in the Institution, to the Libraries, to the Museum, and to the weekly evening meetings, and have the right of voting at the monthly meetings; they may also introduce by tickets two friends to each of the weekly evening Meetings, and their families have the privilege of attending the Lectures at a reduced charge. And for every additional subscription of Iwenty Guineas at one time, or Three Guineas per annum, each Member is entitled to introduce personally, or by a written order, one visitor to each of the public lectures.

Annual Subscribers to the Institution pay Five Guineas, and One Guinea to the Library fund on admission. They are admitted to all the courses of lectures delivered in the theatre of the institution, to the libraries, and to the newspaper rooms, but have not the privilege of attending the evening meetings.

Admission to Lectures.-The Wives of Members, and Sons and Daughters (under the age of twenty-one) of Members, are admitted for the season to all Courses of Lectures, and to the Museum, co the payment each of One Guinea, and to any separate Course of Lectures on the payment each of Half-a-Guinea.

Subscribers to Lectures.-For all the courses of lectures (extending from Christmas to Midsummer) pay Two Guineas; for a single course of lectures pay One Guinea; or Half-a-Guinea, according to the length of the course. For the Christmas course, children under sixteen years of age pay Half-a-Guinea.

The General Annual Meeting for the election of officers will be held on Friday the 1st of May, at Two o'clock, p.m.

Syllabuses of the Lectures and Friday Evening Meetings may be obtained at the House of the Institution. The lecture arrangements for 1866 will include courses by Professors Tyndall, Frankland, Marshall, and others.

ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY, 53, BERNERS-STREET. W.-Instituted 1805. Chartered 1834. Pres., Dr. Alderson; Vice-Pres., Dr. Basham, Dr. F. Weber, Mr. S. A. Lane, and Mr. J. Simon; Treas., Dr. H. A. Pitman, and Mr. S. Smith; Secs., Dr. H. W. Fuller and Mr. J. Birkett; Libs., Dr. A. P. Stewart and Mr. L. Holden; Members of Council, Drs. A. W. Barclay, E. L. Birkett, S. J. Goodfellow, E. Meryon, and H. Oldham; Messrs. O. Clayton Holmes Coote, G. Critchett, C. H. Moore, and A. Poland; Res. Asst. Lib., Mr. B. R. Wheatley. The Meetings of the Society are held on the second and fourth Tuesday evenings in the month from November till June, at half-past eight o'clock precisely. Anniversary Meeting, March 1, at eight p.m. The elections (of which there are four annually, viz., in Dec., Feb., April, and June), are conducted by balloting lists, and the name of every candidate must be suspended in the Library for one month at the least, previous to the election. The admission fee is 61. 68., exclusive of the annual subscription of 31. 38., which is paid in advance. Those Fellows who reside beyond seven miles from London pay no subscription. A volume of Transactions is published yearly, and distributed gratuitously to each subscribing Fellow. The Proceedings of the Society are also published from time to time during the session. Country Fellows are entitled to the Proceedings, and will receive the Transactions as annually published for life by paying a composition fee of 6l. 63. The Proceedings may be subscribed for separately by non-members, by an annual payment of 58. The library contains above 22,000 volumes. Town Fellows are at liberty to select any books (eight volumes at a time) for perusal at their own homes.

ROYAL SOCIETY, BURLINGTON-HOUSE, PICCADILLY. W.-Pres., Maj.-Gen. Sabine, R.A.; Treas., Prof. W. A. Miller, M.D.; Secs., Dr. W. Sharpey and Prof. G. G. Stokes; For. Sec., Prof. W. H. Miller; Asst.-Sec. and Lib., Mr. Walter White; Clerk, Mr. H. B. Wheatley.

The Meetings of the Society take place on Thursday evening, at half-past eight precisely, commencing on the third Thursday in November, and terminating on the third Thursday in June. SOUTH-LONDON MEDICO-ETHICAL SOCIETY.-Established 1863.-Hon. Sec., Dr. Swallow, 61, Kennington-park-rd. S.

The objects of this Society are social, ethical, and professional. The members meet fortnightly at each others' houses.

STATISTICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 12, ST. JAMES'S-SQUARE. S. W.-Founded 1884.-Pres., The Rt. Hon. Lord Houghton; Vice-Pres., Mr. A. J. B. Beresford Hope, Sir J. P. Boileau, Bart., Mr.

S. Brown and Col. W. H. Sykes, M.P.; Treas., Dr. Farr; Council, Mr. C. Babbage, Col. G. Balfour, Mr. W. J. Bovill, Dr. Camps, Mr. J. Caird, M.P., E. Chadwick, C.B., Mr. L. H. Courtney, Rt. Hon. Earl Fortescue, Mr. J. T. Hammick, Mr. F. Hendriks, Mr. J. Heywood, Mr. W. B. Hodge, Mr. C. Jellicoe, Mr. F. Jourdan, Dr. L. Levi, Mr. M. H. Marsh, M.P., Mr. G. Moffatt, M.P., Sir I. R. Murchison, K.C.B., Mr. W. Newmarch, Mr. W. Tite, M.P., Dr. H. Tuke, and Rev. W. Whewell; Hon. Secs., Dr. W. A. Guy, Mr. W. G. Lumley, and Mr. F. Purdy; Editor of Journ. Mr. F. Purdy; Asst.-Sec., Mr. F. Gover.

Fellows are admitted by ballot, and must have three-fourths of the votes in their favour. The Annual Subscription is Two Guineas, due on the 1st of January. Fellows may compound for future payments at any time by paying Twenty Guineas. A library of Statistical works is formed, and the Society publishes a quarterly journal.

The

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SOCIETY, GOWER-STREET. W.C.-Established 1828. Pres., Messrs. Powell and Arnott; Hon. Treas., Mr. Hensman; Hon. Secs., Messrs. Gower and Anderson. The Society meets once a fortnight, on Thursday evenings, at half-past seven o'clock, for the reading and discussion of papers on subjects connected with medicine. The Society possesses a well-selected library, consisting of about one thousand volumes on medicine, surgery, and the allied sciences; a complete museum of the materia medica; an osteological and a microscopical collection; a valuable binocular microscope; and an extensive herbarium of British and foreign plants. WESTERN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SOCIETY, 44, SLOANE-STREET. S.W.-Established 1845.— Pres., Mr. G. D. Pollock; Vice-Pres., Dr. Baines, Mr. Prescott Hewett, Dr. Marcet, and Mr. T. Dickinson; Council, Mr. Keen, Dr. Martyn, Mr. B. Brodhurst, Dr. Way, Mr. Vasey, Dr. D. Davies, Mr. Traer, Mr. Knight, Dr. R. T. Daniell, Dr. Blandford, Mr. T. Holmes, and Mr. J. R. Lane; Treas., Dr. Baines; Hon. Secs., Mr. Milner, 22, Lower Belgrave-st., S.W., and Mr. C. Hunter, 30, Wilton-pl., S.W.; Hon. Lib., Dr. Godwin; Auditors, Mr. Keen and Dr. Fyfe. The Meetings of the Society are held on the third Friday in October, and on the first Friday of each following month to June, with the exception of January, at eight o'clock p.m. Anniversary Meeting in June. Members are admitted by ballot. The subscriptions are One Guinea on admission, and One Guinea annually, paid in advance. The library and reading-room are open daily from ten in the morning till ten in the evening. Students are admitted as Associate Members without entrance-fee, on payment of an annual subscription of Half-a-Guinea. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. OFFICES, 11, HANOVER-SQUARE. W.-GARDENS, IN THE REGENT'S PARK.-This Society was instituted in 1826, under the auspices of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., Sir Stamford Raffles, and other eminent individuals, for the advancement of Zoology, and the introduction, exhibition and acclimatization of subjects of the animal kingdom. Pres., Rt. Hon. Sir G. Clerk, Bart.; Counc., Admiral Sir W. Bowles, K.C.B.; (Vice-Pres.), Rt. Hon. Viscount Bury, M.D., Mr. C. Buxton, M.P., Mr. R. Drummond (Treas.), Mr. W. H. Flower, Mr. J. Gould, Mr. J. E. Gray (Vice-Pres.), Dr. E. Hamilton, Mr. R. Hudson (Vice-Pres.), Prof. Huxley (Vice-Pres.), Mr. A. Newton, Lord Bishop of Oxford (Vice-Pres.), Mr. A. J. E. Russell, M.P., Dr. P. L. Sclater (Secretary), Mr. G. Sclater-Booth, M.P., Mr. J. T. Smith, Rev. E. C. Taylor, Mr. R. H. S. Vyvyan, Mr. G. R. Waterhouse, and Viscount Walden.

The General Monthly Meetings of the Zoological Society are held on the third Thursday of every month, at four o'clock (except in September and October).

Fellows pay an admission fee of 5l., and an annual contribution of 3., or a composition of 301. in lieu thereof; the whole payment, including the admission-fee, being 351. Annual subscribers pay a contribution of 31. on the 1st of January in every year. Honorary, foreign, and corresponding members pay no contribution.

The Scientific Meetings take place on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month (except July, August, September, and October), at nine o'clock p.m. The Annual Meeting on April. 29. THE LONDON AND PROVINCIAL MEDICAL PROTECTION SOCIETY, 43, LINCOLN'S-INN FIELDS. W.C. -Established 1850.-Pres., Mr. J. Propert; Trust., Mr. H. Day (Isleworth), Mr. J. Propert (New Cavendish-street), and Mr. H. Sterry (New Kent-road); Treas., Mr. R. Dunn; Bankers, Goslings and Sharpe, 19, Fleet-street; Sec., Mr. J. Capes.

The objects of the Society are

1st. To provide a safe and efficient medium by which the Medical Profession may secure more certain and regular payment for their services; with every consideration for the convenience of those who are willing, but unable directly to discharge their liabilities; with rigour for those who are able, but have not the disposition, to remunerate Medical men.

These ends to be accomplished without interfering with the valuable time of the Members of the Profession, or exposing them to the unpleasantness which necessarily attends application for money, or the uncertainty and risk of employing private collectors.

2nd. To assist Members with information and advice in the purchase and sale of practices. 3rd. To raise a Benevolent Fund by devoting to that object the profits arising from the general operations of the Society.

The Society consists of qualified Medical Practitioners only. Annual Subscription, one guinea; a firm consisting of two partners, a guinea and a half; a firm of three partners, two guineas. The general business is carried on by a Staff of Officers at the central office, 43, Lincoln'sinn-fields, together with trustworthy employés appointed in town and country, the whole of whom are under the direction and superintendence of the Committee. The Metropolitan

Members of the Committee, with the Trustees, are responsible for all moneys received by the

Staf MEDICAL BENEVOLENT FUND, 11, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. W.-Established 1836.-Pres., Sir J. Clark, Bart., M.D.; Vice-Pres., Sir H. Holland, Bart., M.D., G. Burrows, M.D., H. Bence Jones, M.D., and Mr. J. Bacot; Trust., Sir C. Hastings, M.D., G. Burrows, M.D., and Mr. J. Toynbee; Committee, Messrs. C. A. Aikin, E. H. Ambler, E. Barker, H Bullock, J. Churchill, J. Clark, M.D. G. T. Dale, J. T. France, T. H. Hills, J. Hodgson, G. C. Jonson, J. Lavies, C. F. J. Lord, W. Martin, H. K. Owen, M.D., E. H. Sieveking, M.D., H. Sterry, and J. Ward; Treas., Mr. J. Toynbee, 18, Savile-row, W.; Hon. Sec., W. H. Broadbent, M.D., 23, Upper Seymourst. Portman-sq. W.; Coll., Mr. W. Self, Nugent Villa, 216, Richmond-rd. Hackney, N.E. This Fund was instituted in the year 1836 to afford immediate pecuniary relief to distressed qualified members of the profession, their widows or orphans; and to grant annuities to the aged and worn-out among them. The extent to which these objects have been attained may be estimated by the fact that the Fund has now 30 annuitants; and that during the past year £865 was expended in grants to 88 cases of urgent distress, in the majority of which no other resource was open. addition to the relief afforded to the aged, blind, sick, and helpless, this Fund has aided in the bringing up and placing in situations of orphans, has given timely help to struggling widows and daughters, by which they have tided over temporary difficulties which would otherwise have overwhelmed them; and has, in many instances, enabled medical men, reduced to poverty by misfortune or illness, to resume practice and support their families.

In

The Committee earnestly appeal to the Profession at large for renewed aid, by which the benefits of the Fund may be extended, and direct attention to the principles on which the Fund is managed. The applicants for relief or annuities have not the trouble and expense of a canvass, or the pain attending publicity. Relief is given as promptly as possible. The only expenses are for printing, postage, and stationery, and the Collector's percentage. The Committee meet at three p.m. on the last Tuesday of every month, to receive applications; and when the evidence as to character and the reality of the distress is satisfactory, a sum proportionate to the urgency of the case and the means at the disposal of the Committee, is voted, and at once sent by the Treasurer.

Subscriptions will be received by the Treasurer, Hon. Secretary, or Collector, or by any of the Members of Committee or Honorary Local Secretaries.

ROYAL MEDICAL BENEVOLENT COLLEGE. OFFICE, 37, SOHO-SQUARE. W.-Pres., Rt. Hon. Earl Granville; Visitor, Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop of Winchester; Vice-Pres., Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishops of Durham, Oxford, St. Asaph, Bangor, St. David's, and Winchester; Earls Denbigh, Effingham, Carlisle, Shaftesbury, and Spencer; Duke of Marlborough, Marquis of Bute, Lord Stanley, M.P., Lord Dynevor, Lord Leigh, Sir M. S. Stewart, Bart., Sir J. Warrender, Bart., Dr. R. W. Jelf, Revds. T. Dale, T. Fuller, and J. H. Hamilton; Messrs B. B. Cabbell, W. Cotton, B. E. Winthrop, J. Bentley, J. Briscoe, and J. G. Murdoch; Drs. E. J. Seymour, R. Ferguson, H. W. Acland, J. Luke; Sir C. Locock, Bart., M.D.; Sir J. Clark, Bart., M.D.; Sir H. Holland, Bart., M.D.; Drs. T. Watson, B. G. Babington, J. Conolly, T. R. Colledge, T. Paget, H. P. Fuller, Sir J. Fife, R. Tayler, Dr. G. Webster, T. Martin, Dr. G. Beaman, Dr. J. A. Wilson, Dr. Williams, J. Lavies, J. Propert; Members of Council, the Pres., Treas., and the following -J. Birkett, H. Blenkarne, Dr. W. Carr, W. A. N. Cattlin, Dr. W. Cholmeley, Dr. W. D. Chowne, G. T. Dale, J. F. France, W. Gilpin, H. Hancock, F. Hird, C. Hogg, G. C. Jonson, C. F. J. Lord, J. H. Lance, Rev. F. D. Maurice, N. Montefiore, Sir T. Phillips, Rev. G. Pocock, R. Quain, Dr. E. Ray, Dr. F. G. Reed, G. M. Robinson, Dr. F. Sibson, Dr. E. H. Sieveking, H. Sterry, W. J. Stuart, Dr. C. Taylor, Jos. Ward, W. F. White; Treas., Mr. J. Propert; Sec., Mr. R. Freeman; Bankers, Goslings and Sharpe, 19, Fleet-street.

The College was established in 1855, for the following purposes :—

1st. To maintain an Asylum, in which 100 Pensioners, who must be duly qualified medical men, or their Widows, not under fifty years of age (possessing incomes of at least 15., and not more than col a year), shall be provided with three furnished rooms each, and with such additional assistance and accommodation as the funds may permit.

2nd. To provide a School, in which a liberal education will be given to 200 boys, the sons of duly qualified medical men; forty of whom will be educated, boarded, clothed, and maintained entirely at the expense of the Institution, while the remainder will be charged at the lowest rate which is found to be practicable.

3rd. To provide annuities, or occasional pecuniary assistance, to duly qualified medical men in distressed circumstances, or to their families, when they can be granted without detriment to the asylum or school, which are to be ever regarded as the principal objects of the College.

There is a Chapel for Divine Service according to the ritual of the Church of England. The Pensioners and Foundation Scholars are elected by the Governors, voting by ballot. Donors of ten guineas are life-governors of the College; subscribers of one guinea annually are governors during the continuance of their subscription. Subscriptions are due in advance on the 1st of January in each year.

Any member of the Profession desirous of accepting the office of Honorary Local Secretary and Treasurer for his neighbourhood, in which one has not been appointed, would oblige by communicating with the Secretary on the subject.

Subscriptions received by the Bankers, Goslings and Sharpe, 19, Fleet-street; the Members of Council; the Hon. Local Secs.; and by the Secretary, at the Office, 37, Soho-square.

SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF MEDICAL MEN, 53, BERNERS-STREET,
OXFORD-STREET. W.-Instituted 1788; incorporated by Royal Charter, 1864. Pres., Mr. M.
Ware; Vice-Pres., Messrs. E. A. Brande, Dr. P. M. Latham, Mr. J. Bacot, Mr. D. H. Walne,
Dr. A. J. Sutherland, Mr. E. Tegart, Dr. Geo. Burrows, Mr. J. Miles, Mr. C. H. Hawkins,
Mr. J. Paget, Dr. B. G. Babington, and Mr. C. Hawkins; Treas., Mr. J. T. Ware, Dr. G.
Hamilton Roe (Acting), and Mr. R. S. Eyles; Direct., Mr. J. G. Forbes, Dr. W. Munk, Mr.
B. W. Holt, Mr. C. Miles, Dr. W. J. Little, Mr. W. Cathrow, Mr. H. Sterry, Dr. H. Jeaffreson,
Mr. H. S. Illingworth, Mr. J. Hilton, Dr. F. Hawkins, Mr. T. B. Curling, Mr. J. Love, Dr. H.
A. Pitman, Mr. J. Adams. Dr. Druitt, Mr. J. C. Forster, Mr. E. Tegart, Mr. J. Scott, Mr.
H. Lee, Mr. C. Collambell, Dr. R. Quain, Dr. G. Johnson, and Mr. C. F. Du Pasquier; Trust.
Messrs. J. T. Ware, Dr. A. J. Sutherland, and Charles Hawkins; Trusts, of Ware and
Chamberlaine Funds, Dr. G. Burrows, Dr. J. Clarke, Mr. J. T. Ware, and Blenkarne; Sec. Dr. =
S. W. J. Merriman, 18, Godolphin-road, New-road, Hammersmith, W.; Coll., Mr. C. J. F.
Renton, Laurel Cottage, Hampstead, N.W. Bankers, Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 77, Lombard
street.

This Society was formed in the year 1788, by Drs. T. Denman, R. Denison, A. Douglas, J. Sims, and J. Squire, and Messrs. W. Chamberlaine and T. Rendall, with the object of establishing a brotherhood for relieving, half yearly, those Widows and Orphans of its deceased Members who might need assistance.

It unites the advantages of a Provident with those of a Benevolent Society. It is Provident, as by the small yearly subscription of Two Guineas the Members do, through it, protect their own families from destitution, should they unexpectedly need it; and it is Benevolent, as its benefits are conferred only on those who are left in indigent circumstances.

The Society has been greatly assisted by legacies and contributions from Members and others. and has especially to acknowledge the gracious patronage of various members of the Royal Family.

The permanent efficiency of the Society depends on the maintenance of a due proportion between the available income and the claims made on the funds. Computations have been made by experienced actuaries on all the points susceptible of calculation by way of average.

The experience of seventy-six years has fully proved the need that existed for this Society, for the last Report shows that 123 widows, and 188 children of Members of the Society, (comprised in 136 families relieved,) have been placed in comfort by an aggregate sum of above 55,000%, paid in half-yearly sums. Many of these recipients were in a state of absolute poverty, when the Society stepped in to succour them.

In the year 1863, 21667. 108. was distributed among forty-eight widows and twenty-two orphans. Great care has been taken, in the management of its resources, to secure the means of affording permanently such relief as the Society provides for those whose unfortunate condition renders assistance needful; and the good which it has accomplished has proved the wisdom and benevolence of those who originally planned the Society, and the prudence and efficiency with which its affairs have since been conducted.

The Society's affairs are managed by a President, twelve Vice-Presidents, three Treasurers, and twenty-four Directors, who are elected by the Members in April, and whose services are gratuitous.

All legally qualified Members of the Profession, residing within the County of Middlesex, or WITHIN THE LONDON DISTRICT POST, are eligible for proposal; the mode of admission is by ballot.

Proposal Papers, and other communications for the Court of Directors, should be sent to the Secretary before the first Wednesday in the months of January, April, July, and September. Laws, Lists, and Forms of Proposal may be obtained from the Secretary, and will be sent by Post on receipt of a Stamp.

The Secretary attends at the Office, 53, Berners-street, every Wednesday and Friday, from four to five p.m.

Mr. J. McDonough. | Clapham. S.
Dr. Griffith.

(Vacant.)

Mr. F. J. Burge.
Mr. H. N. Pink.
Dr. Tripe.

Mr. C. F. J. Lord.
Dr. S. Gibbon.
Dr. Ballard.

Mr. F. Godrich, jun.
Dr. G. Puckle.
Mr. J. S. Burton.

Dr. F. E. Wilkinson.
Mr. T. Orton.
Dr. Letheby.

Mr. J. H. Freeman.
Dr. Iliff, jun.
Dr. Sanderson.
Dr. A. W. Allinson.
Mr. S. K. Ellison.
Dr. Murdoch.
Dr. Druitt.
Dr. Aldis.

Mr. J. H. Freeman.
Dr. H. Bateson.
Dr. Buchanan.

Dr. Lankester.
Dr. J. N. Vinen.
Dr. Pavy.
Mr. L. Beale.

Dr. J. Whitmore.
Dr. Hillier.

Mr. Bianchi.
Dr. Barnes.
Dr. C. Evans.

Mr. D. C. Noel..