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BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The President then read the following motion, which had been put on 
the notice board for confirmation :—■“ That before a medical gentleman 
is allowed to appear for any examination, he shall furnish sufficient 
evidence as to the legal qualification he holds in medicine or surgery.” 
On the motion of Mr. Pray , seconded by Prof. Pritchard , the motion 
was carried. 
Mr. Walley asked for the interpretation of Bye-law 34, which was 
explained by the President. 
The President , again referring to the Belgian Conference, said that at 
next meeting he should bring forward the names of certain gentlemen 
on the Continent who were distinguished in Veterinary Medicine, and 
move that they be, with the permission of the Council, elected Honorary 
Fellows of the College. 
Mr. Dollar gave notice of the following motion : 
“ That the Third Examination will begin with the Practical and 
Clinical, and any candidate failing to obtain a sufficient number of marks 
in this part of the examination will be prevented proceeding to the 
Final Examination.” 
On the motion of Mr. Dray a vote of thanks was accorded to the 
President for his very able conduct in the chair, and the Council then 
adjourned. 
BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The forty-eighth annual meeting was held at Cambridge, commencing 
on Tuesday, 10th August. On that day, at 4 p.m., the Bishop of Ely 
delivered a sermon in King’s College Chapel, after which a collection 
was made in aid of the British Medical Benevolent Fund. At 8 p.m., 
at the Senate House, where all the general meetings were held, the 
President, Professor Humphrey, delivered his address. He traced 
the relations of medical science to the English Universities, and ex¬ 
pressed his opinion that in no other branch of knowledge are true science 
and sound practice so well combined as in medicine; and he agreed with 
Descartes that all grand movements in the world—of philosophy, morals, 
and government, come out of medicine. He then urged the value of 
unity in collection of facts illustrating the relations of natural pheno¬ 
mena, temperature, climate, &c., to disease. 
Honorary degrees (LL.D.) were then conferred on twelve of the 
leading members, including Brown-Sequard, Donders, Jenr.er, Gull, 
Lister, Simon, and Ilaughton of Dublin. Professor Chauveau, of 
Lyons, was also to have received this honour, but was prevented from 
personal attendance. In this new honour conferred on the represen¬ 
tative of the veterinary profession in France, English veterinarians will 
feel some satisfaction; but this meeting has been noteworthy in the 
annals of the profession, also, since veterinary surgeons received invita¬ 
tions to take part in the work of the Section D, Public Medicine. The 
following were the officers : 
President —Henry W. Acland, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. (Oxford). 
Vice-Presidents —Arthur Ransome, M.A., M.D. (Manchester); Thos. 
Pridgin Teale, M.A., F.R.C.S. (Leeds). 
Honorary Secretaries —William Armistead, M.B. (Cambridge); Thos 
J. Walker, M.D. (Peterboro’). 
