306 PROCEEDINGS OP PROVINCIAL ^SOCIETIES. 



in quibus si evagetur paulo mens, de integro renovanda est demon- 

 stratio." 



" Geometry is an excellent logic, and it must be owned, that 

 when the definitions are clear — when the postulata cannot be refus- 

 ed, nor the axioms denied — when, from the distinct contemplation 

 and comparison of figures, their properties are derived by a perpetu- 

 al well-connected chain of consequences, the objects being still kept 

 in view and the attention ever fixed upon them, — there is acquired 

 a habit of reasoning, close, and exact, and methodical; which habit 

 strengthens and sharpens the mind, and being transferred to other 

 subjects is of general use in the inquiry after truth." 



The lecturers and examiners were subsequently entertained by 

 the students at dinner, at Dee's Royal Hotel, James Taylor, Esq., 

 (in the absence of W. Dugdale, Esq., M. P.), in the chair; who 

 expressed the great pleasure he felt at seeing men of all political 

 parties and sentiments assembled to celebrate the success of an insti- 

 tution, the object of which was the promotion of science, literature, 

 and the welfare of mankind. The principal speakers on the occa- 

 sion were, the Chairman ; the Vice-president ; J. Webster, Esq. ; 

 Drs. Eccles, Booth, Birt Davies, and Dr. Jones Quain ; the Rev. 

 W. Lawson ; W. Sands Cox, F.R.S. ; G. B. Knowles, F.L.S. ; 

 and Messrs. Ingleby, E. T. Cox, Elkington, Woolrich, Edwardes, 

 E. Armfield, Spilsbury, T. C. Roden, J. E. Piercy, and Harmar. 



Dr. Jones Quain, in acknowledging " the health of the examin- 

 ers," observed — ^' they had received the greatest possible gratifica- 

 tion from the extent of information which the students had evinced 

 in each of the departments over which they had presided, and on no 

 other occasion did they recollect to have witnessed more precision 

 and accuracy, both in style and manner, or more extended informa- 

 tion and practical knowledge, than upon the present. He was gra- 

 tified beyond measure to witness the progress and great advances 

 which medicine and surgery had made in the provinces. From a 

 private school, the institution had risen to an extensive public semi- 

 nary, and he hoped that, ere long, it would become a chartered and 

 established collegiate institution." 



During the evening the Prize Medals were presented to the suc- 

 cessful candidates ; and the harmony and conviviality of the meet- 

 ing were kept up until a late hour. 



At the quarterly Board of Governors, held June 1st, it was re- 

 solved, as a mark of respect to the President (Dr. Edward John- 

 stone), to ])ostpone the annual meeting until the 26th of September 

 — ^his eightieth birth-day. The following arrangements, in refer- 

 ence to the prize essays to be contended for by the students, were de- 

 termined upon : — the Essays " On the Influence of Air and Soil, as 

 affecting Health" premium ten guineas, offered by the Rev. Dr. 

 Arnold; '' On Injuries of the Head" premium five guineas, offered 

 by John Meredith, Esq. ; Clinical Reports, premium five guineas, 

 offered by Dr. Booth ; to be sent in on or before the 1st of Septem- 

 ber next : the Essays '' On the Influence upon Health of Alcoho/ic 



