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known as the 'Salmon Disease'" read before the 

 Royal Society on the occasion of the Prince of Wales 

 being admitted a Fellow (February 21 ; Proc. Roy. 

 Soc. xxxiii. pp. 381-389); the other on "Saprolegnia 

 in relation to the Salmon Disease " (Quarterly Journal 

 of Microscopical Science, xxii. pp. 311-333). A third, 

 at the Zoological Society, was on the "Respiratory 

 Organs of Apteryx" (Proc. Z. S. 1882, pp. 560-569). 

 He delivered an address before the Liverpool Institu- 

 tion on "Science and Art in Relation to Education" 

 (Coll. Ess. iii. p. 160), and was busy with the Medical 

 Acts Commission, which reported this year. 



The aim of this Commission * was to level up the 

 varying qualifications bestowed by nearly a score of 

 different licensing bodies in the United Kingdom, 

 and to establish some central control by the State 

 over the licensing of medical practitioners. 



The report recommended the establishment of 

 Boards in each division of the United Kingdom 

 containing representatives of all the medical bodies in 

 the division. These boards would register students, 

 and admit to a final examination those who had 

 passed the preliminary and minor examinations at 

 the various universities and other bodies already 

 granting degrees and qualifications. Candidates who 

 passed this final examination would be licensed by 

 the General Medical Council, a body to be elected 



1 For a fuller account of this Commission and the part played 

 in it by Huxley, see his "State and Medical Education" (Coll. 

 /iss. iii. 323), published 1884. 





