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would tend to soften down the jarring elements of our chartered 
body, so as eventually to succeed in re-uniting them into one 
harmonious whole. The discord and disunion which has unfor- 
tunately prevailed, ab initio, among the members of our College, 
has sadly tarnished the lustre of the charter through the impe- 
diments it has thrown in the way of its brightest development. 
But for the opposition which the charter has met with, there is 
every reason for believing that the corporate body would have 
occupied a station in advance of the one it now holds. Let us 
hope, however, that differences are giving way, and that all 
parties are at the present time about regarding their common 
professional interests in too dear a light to harbour any inclina- 
tion to set them in peril by fresh agitation ; and, moreover, that 
under our new President all matters will go on quietly and 
amicably, to the entire repair of our lacerated profession. 
Nothing would please us more than to see such a President as 
would assemble our scattered flock around him, and ere his 
year of office run out — in imitation of the President of the Col- 
lege of Surgeons in the delivery of his Hunterian oration — giving 
a COLEMANIAN ORATION, and in such manner affording most 
convincing proof that neither the spirit nor the talent for uniting 
and amalgamating the members of the corporate body, and 
advancing their common interests, was wanting, at least in the 
person of the President. 
In ushering our new President into office — albeit he be at 
present unknown — we must not cast from memory our late 
President. We most sincerely lament the indisposition which 
has forced Mr. Thomas Turner to so suddenly and prematurely 
relinquish his official post. During his six years’ retention of 
it, he has advocated the cause of the Charter with truly untiring 
ardour. He has done all in his power to advance the objects 
of its representatives; and if that desiderated position which 
they, through virtue of it, fondly anticipated and had a right 
to look forward to, has not been attained, the fault has not 
rested with him. Few members of the profession would have 
gone through what he has for the sake of the Charter. He has 
sacrificed his time, his business, and we are afraid his health 
likewise, in the cause ; and we feel ourselves bound, both by 
