MARCH, 1916. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on 

 Wednesday, the 1st March, 1916, at 9-15 p.m. 



Lieut-Colonel Sir L. Rogers, Kt., CLE., M.D., B.S. 

 F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., F.A.S.B., I.M.S., President, in the chair. 



The following members were present:— 



Maulavi Abdul WaK, Dr. F. H. Gravely, Mr. H. G. Graves, 

 Rev. R. Oka, Dr. Satis Chandra Vidyabhnsana, Dr. Annandale 

 and Dr. Hossack. 



Visitor : — Lady Rogers. 



The minutes of the January Ordinary Monthly Meeting, 

 the Annual Meeting and the February Ordinary Monthly 

 Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Sixty-nine presentations were announced. 



The General Secretary reported that Mr. P. Mukerji had 

 expressed a desire to withdraw from the Society. 



The Genera] Secretary also reported the death of Sir 

 William Turner, K.C.B., an Honorary Fellow of the Society. 



Dr. Annandale read the following obituary notice : — 



Obituary Note on Sir 'William Turner, K.C.B., F.R.S., 

 Hon. F.A.S B., etc., died 1 5th February, 1916 



William Turner, patriotic Scotchman and citizen of Edin- 

 burgh as he became, was born at Lancaster in 1832. For well 

 over half a century (1854-1916) he was on the staff of the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh, for thirteen years as Demonstrator of 

 Anatomy, thirty-six years as Regius Professor of the same 

 science, and finally for eleven years as Principal and Vice- 

 Chancellor. For at least twenty years he dominated university 

 politics, and even those who complained that his ideas were 

 old-fashioned had no thought of questioning his whole-hearted 

 devotion and the power of his personality. With his death a 

 chapter in the history of the Scotish universities is closed. 



Though a biologist rather than a medical man, he took a 

 very prominent 'part in the work of the British Medical Asso- 

 ciation, of the General Council of which he was President from 

 1898 to 1904. He was President of the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science in 1900. The lucidity of his 

 academic lectures was famous. 



It was not only as an anatomist pure and simple thatTurner 



