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MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



The fifty-first Anniversary Meeting of this Society was 

 holden at the London Coffee House, Ludgate Hill, William 

 Shearman, MD. President, in the chair. 



The Officers and Council for the ensuing year are as follow : 

 President: William Shearman, MD. — Vice-Presidents: Henry 

 Clutterbuck, MD. ; Henry James Cholmely, MD.; Sir Astley 

 Paston Cooper, Bart. FRS., and Thomas Callaway, Esq.- - 

 Treasurer: John Andree, Esq. — Librarian: David Uwins, MD. 

 — Secretaries : T. J. Pettigrew, Esq., and Thomas Callaway, 

 Esq. — Secretary for Foreign Correspondence: Robley Dungli- 

 son, MD. — The other members of the Council : Drs. Walsh- 

 man, Hancock, J. C. Smith, Blicke, Blegborough, Hopkinson, 

 Stpwart, Ley, Darling, Haslam, Pierce, Cox, and Burne ; 

 Messrs. Sutcliffe, Drysdale, Wender, K. Johnson, Dunlap, 

 Kingdon, Ward, Thomas Clarke, Burton Brown, Lake, Ash- 

 well, Edwards, Handey, E. Leese, Skair, Cordell, Bell, Ellerby, 

 Amesbury, T. Bryant, and Burrows. — Registrar : James Field, 

 Esq. — The Fellow elected to deliver the annual oration, in 

 March 1825, Eusebius Arthur Lloyd, Esq. 



The President informed the meeting that the time allotted 

 for the perusal of the dissertations offered for the Fothergillian 

 medal, during the last year, having been unexpectedly short- 

 ened, the Society had not yet adjudicated the prize medal : 

 this however would be done forthwith, and the Medal would 

 be presented to the successful candidate at a Special General 

 Meeting of the Society to be holden on the 3rd of May, at 

 eight o'clock in the evening. 



The annual oration was then delivered by Dr. John Gordon 

 Smith, the Ex-Vice President; the subject was, " The Duties 

 and Perplexities of Medical Men as professional Witnesses in 

 Courts of Justice." 



A numerous body of Fellows and their friends, amounting in 

 all to 86, afterwards dined together in the great room of the 

 Tavern, the President being in the chair ; and the remainder 

 of the day was marked by harmony and conviviality. 



Condi t inns of I lie Fpthergilliau Medal. — In conformity with 

 the will of the late Anthony Fothergill, MD. FRS., the Society 

 resolved to give, annually, to the author of the best Essay on 

 a subject proposed by them, a gold medal, value 20 guineas, 

 called the Fothergillian Medal ; for which the learned of all 

 countries are invited as candidates. 



1. Each dissertation must be delivered to the Registrar) in 

 the Latin or English language, on or before the first day of 

 December. 



2. With each dissertation must be delivered a scaled packet, 

 with some motto or device on the outside, and within the author's 



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