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PROCEEDINGS OP PROVINCIAL SOCIETIES. 

 BIRMINGHAM ROYAL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE & SURGERY. 



A MEMORIAL, signed by the governors and trustees of this School 

 «f Medicine, and many of the leading individuals in the county, 

 was recently presented to the King, by the Right Honourable Lord 

 Howe, praying his Majesty to become the patron of the Institution, 

 and soliciting permission to style it the " Royal School of Medicine 

 and Surgery." The memorial represented that the Institution had 

 become important to the public from its situation in the centre of 

 the kingdom — from its power of communicating all that is essential 

 in the primary education of medical and surgical students — and 

 from its being recognized by the constituted medical authorities of 

 the realm." His Majesty, in the most gracious manner, acqui- 

 esced in the wishes of the memorialists, and conveyed, through the 

 medium of Sir Herbert Taylor, an assurance that His Majesty was 

 " very sensible of the great importance and utility of this establish- 

 ment, and of the advantages, general and local, which the country 

 must derive from the manner in which it was conducted." A spe- 

 cial meeting was subsequently held, when an address, expressive of 

 grateful acknowledgments to His Majesty, was ])roposed by the 

 Earl of Dartmouth, seconded by Dr. John Johnstone, and carried 

 with acclamation. 



During the last session, upwards of ninety students pursued their 

 studies at this Institution, and the several candidates who have 

 sought to be enrolled members of the profession, have passed their 

 examination in a manner alike creditable to their exertions and to 

 the Professors of the School. 



The funds of the Institution, we are happy to observe, are in a 

 flourishing state. The donations and subscriptions received in 1835 

 amounted to £379. 4s., leaving a balance in hand, after paying the 

 disbursements, of £132. 9s. 2d. 



Lord Viscount Lorton, and Lord Viscount LifFord have been 

 added to the list of honorary governors ; and the Rev. Mr. Lawson, 

 M. A., incumbent of Moseley, has been appointed professor of ma- 

 thematics and natuial philosophy. The liberal founder of the 

 Leamington Hospital, the Rev. Dr. Warneford, has presented the 

 munificent donation of one hundred pounds towards the funds of 

 the School ; and the committee have determined, as a mark of 

 acknowledgment and respect towards the benevolent divine, to ap- 

 propriate a part of that sum in the purchase of wax models, to be 

 termed " The Warneford Collection." 



Specimens of the Corals have been presented by Lady Charlotte 

 Law, a hortus siccus of the Mosses and Jungermanniae, by the Rev. 

 Mr. Gisborne ; and various other specimens of Anatomy, Natural 

 History, &c., have been added by Dr. John Johnstone, Mr. J. E. 

 Piercy, Mr. W. H. Osborn, Mr. Beilby, and Mr. W. Fletcher. 



