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grees, but it gives him that honour immediately, and without any 

 condition. A member of the University who has acquired the hon- 

 our in the regular course, could not exercise the right of voting im- 

 mediately ; but when it is conferred by diploma, as in this case, the 

 individual to whom it is presented acquires an immediate right to 

 vote." 



The report of the council was then called for and read by Dr. 

 Hastings, after which Dr. John Johnstone, of Birmingham, said, — 

 *' The report which has now been read is so satisfactory a document, 

 and goes so fully into the subject, botli of the progress of our Insti- 

 tution, and of the means recommended for the furtherance of its ob- 

 ject, that I shall not enter into any remarks upon that detail. If I 

 were to enter into it, it would be upon that part which recommends 

 to your consideration the subject of the poor in relation to medical 

 attendance ; but as that subject would require a long discussion, I 

 think it would be much better that the recommendation made in the 

 report should be adopted, namely, that every gentleman concerned 

 with the poor, and who is employed as a medical practitioner for 

 their relief, should make his own report to this Association, so that 

 we might have a general understanding on the subject. But on 

 the present auspicious occasion, surrounded, as we are, by the great 

 body of enlightened practitioners in this country, assembled, too, in 

 undiminished numbers, and with increased zeal, in this, — the very 

 seat of the JMuses, and the resort of sages for so many centuries past 

 ■ — this sanctuary of learning, revered and honoured by all civilized 

 nations, and endeared, especially to some of us, by recollections and 

 associations which bind us to it by millions of ties of almost filial duty 

 and affection — it is impossible for us not to exult at our present posi- 

 tion, and not to believe that our views are correctly estimated, and 

 that it is known we are met together, not for any selfish purposes 

 but, by enlarging the volume of science, to diminish the mass of human 

 misery. It cannot be forgotten in our annals, too, that by the boun- 

 ty of this University, and by the kindness of our learned president, 

 we are assembled under this dome, reared and dedicated by medical 

 munificence, for the purposes enumerated in the report. Under this 

 dome, if I may dare to use the image, the Ge?iius loci, the spirit of 

 medicine itself, looks down with complacency upon us and breathes 

 a benediction upon our labours.'* Dr. Johnstone concluded by mov- 

 ing that the report of the council be received and adopted by this 

 meeting, which was seconded by Dr. Carrick and carried unani- 

 mously. 



Dr. Prichard, at the request of the president, then read the Re- 

 trospective Address, which, on its conclusion, was universally ap- 

 plauded. 



Sir Charles Bell moved that the thanks of the meeting be given 

 to Dr. Prichard, for liis able and eloquent address ; and that he be 

 requested to print the same in the fourth volume of the Transac- 

 tions of the Association : — seconded by Dr. Daubeny. 



Air, Tudor (of IJath) moved — that the Anniversary ^Meeting, for 



