196 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECTIONS. 
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MEDICAL SECTION. 
The Medical pets of the Royal Society held seven meetings 
during the Session of 1885 ,under the presidency of Dr. Mackellar. 
The interest showin ti the work of Section H by the Medical 
Profession is steadily increasing, the average attendance being 
twenty-four members per oe the largest eq ualling twenty- 
eight, and the smallest oe -on 
these meetings, sixteen papers were read, many verbal com- 
munications made, and many Fitaredting pathological specimens 
1. 
During the past year, the Section has to deplore the loss of two 
of its most esteemed members, Dr. George Fortescue and Dr. Cecil 
Morgan, the former from typhoid fever, “the latter from phthisis. 
THOMAS EVANS, M.R.C.S., Wa oe 
GEORGE HURST, M.B,, Lond. f 7 °™ °° 
