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the Council in respect of the conduct and arrange- 

 ment of the lectures themselves ; my only desire 

 being how most usefully to promote the advance- 

 ment of Medical Science along with the interests 

 of philanthropic benevolence and of social welfare." 



Could any wiser or more useful form of bequest 

 than this of Dr. Milroy have been bestowed ? The 

 College is no longer itself in need of the aid 

 required in former times, but funds placed at its 

 disposal for promoting the acquirement of know- 

 ledge constitute a benefaction that confers upon 

 it the power of doing good in a manner standing 

 most in harmony with the wants of the present 

 age. Further, it may be said, the kind of know- 

 ledge sought to be advanced by the terms of the 

 Milroy endowment is just that which is most ripe 

 for encouragement at the present moment, and 

 that also which holds a foremost rank in promise 

 of benefit of a wide nature being conferred by its 

 improvement. 



I have ventured to consider that such a bene- 

 faction as this which it has devolved upon me to 

 commemorate is the best kind of benefaction the 



