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towards the end of the last century, laws were 

 passed by our universities, at the desire, it is 

 said, of the college, to prevent in future the 

 incorporation in them of physicians, who had 

 graduated in any place out of England, except 

 Dublin; and since then, the college have never, 

 I believe, admitted any one to an examination 

 for a fellowship, who did not possess an English 

 degree of doctor in medicine. The consequence 

 has been, that the number of members, which in 

 1677 was sixty-five*, without including twenty 

 honorary fellows, a class no longer existing, is 

 now only forty-eight t, notwithstanding the vast 

 increase, which the capital has in the mean 

 time received, in point both of population and 

 riches. But all surprise at this diminution of 

 the number of members will cease, when it is 

 known, how greatly that of licentiates has during 

 the same interval been augmented. In 1667, 



but when a graduate from a different university is admitted 

 in either of them, ad eundem gradum, this is called incorpora- 

 tion. 



* Fifty-three fellows and twelve candidates, who are both, 

 in the language of the college, named college?. The term 

 candidate is used in a very different sense by the college from 

 what is commonly given to it ; with them it means a person 

 who has passed all the examinations which are required for 

 a fellowship, but who is not actually in possession of it. I 

 have for this reason very seldom employed it. 



f Forty-five fellows and three candidates. 



