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PiAN and Rkoui-ations of the Establishment and Adjudication 

 of Two Pkize MiiDALS for the Encouragement of the Medical 

 Officers of the Royal Navy, and the Improvement of Physic and 

 Surgery in that Department of the Public Service. Founded by 

 Sir Gilbert Blane, Baronet^ First Physician to the King, 

 F.R.SS., Lond.3 Edin., Gott., Member of the Imperial Academy 

 of Sciences of Russia, of the Institute of France, &c- 



]. The Founder — considering how much it will conduce to the 

 advancement of the Public Service that emulation should be excited 

 among the Medical Officers of the Royal Navy by honorary distinc- 

 tions fur professional merit— has vested the sum of three hundred 

 pounds in the three per cent, consolidated Bank Annuities, in the 

 corporation of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, in trust 

 with the dividends which shalJ be from time to time receivable^ for 

 the purpose of conferring, once in two years, Two Gold Medals of 

 equal value on two medical officers, surgeons of ships of war iu com- 

 mission, or assistant-surgeons of King's ships in commission not bear- 

 ing surgeons, who, in the time required, shall have delivered into the 

 proper office, Journals, evincing the most distinguished proofs of skill, 

 diligence, humanity, and learning in the exercise of their professional 

 duties : these journals to be delivered iu the form in which they have 

 been kept from day to day, stating the symptoms as they shall have 

 occurred at the time , but without prejudice or hindrance to 

 making such observations, practical or theoretical, as they may jud^v 

 proper to annex to them. 



2. The first selection to be made by the Medical Commissioners 

 on the 12th of August, 1831, from the Journals delivered between 

 the 12t.hof July, 1827, and the 12th of July, 1831. All future selee- 

 tions to be made on the 12th of August, at the interval of two years 

 from each other, from the Journals delivered in the two pre- 



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