December 1 8th, igi2. 



Professor Lindsay, M.A., M.D., FR.C.P., President, in the Chair. 



FOOTPRINTS OF MEDICAL DISCOVERY 

 IN CUBA." 



By Professor Symmers. 



{Abstract.) 



The Chairman said it had been thought proper at this stage 

 that some allusion should be made by the Society to the great 

 loss which science had sustained in the death of Sir George 

 Darwin. He was the second son of the illustrious Charles Darwin, 

 and filled the post of professor of astronomy at Cambridge. His 

 work lay in quite a different field from that of his father — namely, 

 in mathematical and physical science. His book on "The Tides " 

 was one of the classics of English science. He showed that the 

 moon by drawing up the tides on the earth was slowly arresting 

 the rotation of the earth and increasing her own distance from the 

 earth, and this work was likely to throw a good deal of light on 

 the past history of our planet. Sir George was a great friend of 

 Lord Kelvin, and to a great extent carried on the work of the 

 latter. He (the President) was sure it would meet with their 

 approbation if he asked their Secretary to convey their condolence 

 to the relatives of the late Sir George, and their sense of the loss 

 which science had sustained. In introducing Professor Symmers 

 to the meeting, the President said he had chosen a subject of 

 great interest, and he would furnish them with one of the most 

 remarkable chapters in rnodern medical history. 



Professor Symmers, in the course of his lecture, said his main 

 object was to lay before them one point, and one point only. 



