62 PROPOSED AMALGAMATION OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETIES. 
structure, accompanied by illustrations of parts which are 
not easily identified from mere verbal description, are of 
great assistance to the dissector, and these are abundantly 
furnished in the volume before us, which has been compiled 
by friends of the late Professor Strangeways, with the laudable 
object of adding a worthy contribution to the literature of 
our profession, facilitating the education of the student, and 
adding to the resources of the family of the late lamented 
Professor of Anatomy in the Edinburgh Veterinary College. 
The work is not free from errors, most of which may, 
perhaps, be traced to inadvertence on the part of the editors. 
The plates of the dentition of the ox and sheep are palpably 
incorrect, and do not accord with the letterpress description ; 
and in the appendix we are told that the incisors of the ox 
and sheep are developed in the upper jaw only. These, and 
similar instances of lapsus calami, may be corrected in a 
second edition, which we hope will soon be required. 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
PROPOSED AMALGAMATION OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETIES. 
A second meeting of the General Committee of Dele- 
gates of the different Medical Societies which have accepted 
the resolutions of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, 
as a basis for the discussion of the suggested amalgamation, 
met in Berners Street on the evening of the 13th ult. Dr. 
Greenhow submitted to the committee, in accordance with a 
request made at the previous meeting, a statement of the 
probable financial condition and strength of the proposed 
amalgamated society, based upon the balance-sheet and 
returns of subscribing members of the societies which have 
entertained the scheme. The statement, we understand, was 
singularly able and lucid, and it is to be regretted, in the 
interests of the proposed amalgamation, that the committee 
did not determine to print it. The facts presented could 
not but have a wider interest than that of the occasion 
which called them forth ; and the deliberations of the Com- 
mittee would have been none the less w r ise, to say the least, 
if they were assisted by the criticism of the outer professional 
world, and particularly of the members of the societies 
immediately interested, on the important question of finance. 
Dr. Greenhow's statement tended, it would appear, to the 
