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The Special Committee appointed to consider the prosec- 

 torial work consisted of the following Fellows : 



Prof. G. B. Howes, V.P.* 

 Dr. H. Woodward, V.P. 

 Dr. Chalmers Mitchell, f 

 Mr. W. L. Sclater. t 



Mr. F. G. Parsons. 

 Dr. R. N. Salaman. 



This Committee and the Council resolved to appoint a 

 pathologist to investigate the causes of death "not only by 

 ordinary post-mortem examination, but by the use of the 

 microscope and bacteriological methods, and to point out 

 not only the cause of death but also how such deaths might 

 in the future be avoided." Other important resolutions were: 



That a Prosectorial Committee should be appointed, to consist of 

 three members of Council and the Secretary, and that this Committee 

 should co-opt as members three Fellows of the Society specially in- 

 terested in anatomy and pathology ; That the Prosectorial Committee 

 should direct and control the work of the Prosectorium and of its staff 

 and report monthly to Council. 



Dr. C. G. Sehgmann, formerly Pathologist at St. Thomas's 

 Hospital, became the Society's Pathologist, but did not take 

 up his appointment till his return from the Cancer Expedi- 

 tion to New Guinea. Up to the end of 1904 in the more 

 important deaths, the bodies were examined by Dr. K N. 

 Salaman. 



In reporting on the work of 1903, Mr. F. E. Beddard^ 

 head of the department, divided it into five categories: 



(1) Deaths in the Menagerie and Post-mortems. 



(2) Anatomical research carried out in the Laboratory. 



(3) Material supplied to anatomists elsewhere and to Museums, <fec. 



(4) Preservation and storing of material for anatomical and histological 



work. 



(5) Information given by letter or to visitors upon zoological matters. 



Soon after Mr. de Winton's appointment as Acting Super- 

 intendent at the beginning of 1903, the storekeeper and the 

 clerk of works left the service of the Society. In announcing 



* Died February 4, 1905. t Representing the Council. 



X Lecturer on Anatomy at the London Hospital Medical College. 

 § Lecturer on Anatomy at St. George's Hospital Medical School. 

 II Director of the Pathological Institute at the London Hospital. 



