146 PROCEEDINGS OF PROVINCIAL SOCIETIES. 



Class. Student. Student with 



Surgery. 



First Silver Medal, Mr. J. Harmar. 



Second Silver Medal Mr. J. "Ward. 



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ate Mr. Water- 

 house, Bilston. 



Chemistry. 



First Silver Medal, Mr. A. Wright. \ ^\';n^"^^^' ^^"" 



Anatomical De- > ,j y xx^^-r^^r. 

 monstration'sbook, ] ^^^- ^' Harmar. 



The lecturers and examiners were afterwards entertained by the 

 students at dinner at Dee's Royal Hotel, Sir Eardley Wilmot, Bart., 

 M. P., in the chair; where with much conviviality was mingled 

 science and philosophy, especially the enlarged and peculiar know- 

 ledge required for successfully pursuing the practice of surgery and 

 medicine. The principal speakers were the Chairman, Mr. Sands 

 Cox, Dr. Eccles, Edward Johnstone, Esq., Dr. James Johnstone, Dr. 

 Conolly, of Warwick, Mr. T. Langston Parker, Mr. E. T. Cox, Dr. 

 Booth, the Stewards, &c. &c. 



As an incentive to emulation, that mainspring of youthful exer- 

 tion. Dr. Booth begged to offer a gold medal to the pupils of the 

 School, for the best Clinical reports of cases treated in the Birming- 

 ham Hospital, for which excellent Institution he should ever retain 

 the strongest attachment. Such reports would be required to be com- 

 plete, and he reserved to himself the ])rivilege of defining more par- 

 ticularly the conditions of his offer. A gold medal was previously 

 offered by J. Meredith, Esq., and ten guineas by the Rev. Dr. Ar- 

 nold, Head Master of Rugby School, for Essays on medical subjects. 



Shortly before eleven o'clock the Chairman vacated his seat, but 

 the evening's festivities were prolonged to a much later hour. The 

 students present were nearly one hundred in number. 



BIRMINGHAM PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION. 



The Literary and Philosophical Society connected with this 

 Institution terminated its Session on the 7th of September last, and 

 at its different meetings during the summer, some interesting and 

 valuable papers were read to the members. The first paper read 

 to the Society was one by Mr. S. Beale, on some branches of the 

 statistics of Birmingham; in which the author pointed out the 

 relative increase and distribution of the population in the several 

 districts of the parish, as compared with each other, and as compared 

 with some other places. He also entered into very minute details 

 respecting both the amount and number of the parochial assessments, 

 of which the following were the general results. The total number 

 of assessments to the parochial rj^tes are 306^2, which the author 

 divided into three classes, — 



