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prepared to accept that view on the understanding thatthere should be the inquiry which he had suggested.The PRESIDENT: A resolution has been drafted on these

lines.Dr. MCVAIL : I was not aware of that.The PRESIDENT : No ; but Dr. MacAlister has a resolution

in his hands. You will see it and see how far it meets yourviews.

Dr. MACALISTER said that certain resolutions which hehad drafted he had intended to propose as an amendmentto any motion for the adoption of the committee’s recom-mendations. His idea was that they should, instead of takingthe committee’s recommendations, pass a general resolutionin regard to the desirability of inspecting all the examina-tions of all the licensing bodies in chemistry, physics, andbiology ; but he now thought that they should concentrateany inquiry by them. to and on schools. The only new bit ofinformation which they had before them was that in respectto institutions recognised by the Royal Colleges and not onthe Council’s list. For his part, he believed that even if theColleges further investigated the matter they would find thatthe curriculum in all the schools they considered satis-

factory was such as would satisfy neither them nor

the Council. At any rate, the Council were entitled to askthe Royal Colleges to furnish full and -particular informa-tion as to the curriculum of the various schools which theyrecognised. No doubt the inquiry would be a troublesomeone to them, but after all that had had taken place he did nothesitate to ask the Colleges to take any trouble that might beinvolved. In asking them to do it the Council would beacting distinctly within their powers, and after they hadobtained the information sought for they would be in avastly superior position to determine as to whether theyshould come to a decision on the sufficiency or insufficiencyof the first year’s study in institutions on the Royal Colleges’list. He read the draft of the resolutions which he was pre-pared to submit.

Dr. McVAIL said that he would have no hesitation inseconding such resolutions.Some conversation ensued as to what should be done with

the committee’s recommendations, and eventually it wasdecided that they should not be proceeded with during thecurrent session. The report containing them had, however,been put upon the minutes, and because of that the recom-mendations would remain "to a certain extent, alive," andcapable of revival at any future time.Dr. PYE-SMITH said that he and members round about

him appreciated the skill with which the report of theSpecial Committee had been drawn up, and the moderatetone in which Dr. McVail had asked for its adoption by theCouncil. He ventured, however, to think that the attitudewhich had now been assumed towards this subject by Dr.McVail was a statesmanlike one which would not diminishhis influence. He could not help sympathising with Mr.

Horsley in the prospect of " no fight," and he thought thatthere should be a clear understanding on this-that the

majority of the Council did not really wish to quarrel ifa quarrel could be avoided.The following motions proposed by Dr. MACALISTER and

seconded by Dr. McVAIL were then unanimously agreedto :-

I.That the Council, under the powers granted by Section XVIII.

of the Medical Act, 1858, require the Conjoint Examining Board inEngland to furnish the Council with the following informationregarding the course of study in chemistry. physics, and biology to begone through by candidates for the qualifications L.R.C.P. London andM.R.C.S. England-namely, in respect of each of the teaching institu-tions recognised by the Royal Colleges, but not approved by the Council.

(a) What are the methods of instruction, theoretical and practical,adopted in the subjects of chemistry, physics, and biology ?

(b) What time is devoted by students to the recognised course ofstudy in each of these subjects ?

(c) What subjects, other than chemistry, physics, and biology, arestudents permitted to study simultaneously with these subjects?

(d) What were the ages at the commencement of the recognisedcourses in these subjects of the students on whose behalf certificates ofstudy were accepted by the Examining Board in the year 1901 ?

(e) What are the names and qualifications of the teachers ofchemistry, physics, and biology who give the recognised courses inthese subjects.

II.

That it is desirable that under the powers given by Section XVIII. ofthe Medical Act of 1858 the examination in chemistry, physics, andbiology held by the several licensing bodies should from time to timebe visited and reported upon.

III.That in the first instance the examinations in chemistry, physics,

and biology held by the Examming Board in England during the

present year he visited by two persons appointed by the President onbehalf of the Council, and that they be instructed to report on the scope,standard and sufficiency of these examinations.

It was also agreed, on the motion of Dr. MACALISTER,seconded by Dr. BRUCE, that-The President and treasurers be requested to arrange for a suitable

remuneration for the visitors, on the basis of the remuneration atpresent paid to the inspector of the examinations of the Apothecaries’Hall, Dublin.

Dr. NORMAN MOORE gave an undertaking that the RoyalColleges would furnish the utmost possible information to theCouncil in their inquiry.

Dr. LITTLE said that by the series of resolutions justadopted the Council had rather altered their bearing towardsthe English Royal Colleges, and he wished to ask Mr. Bryantand Dr. Norman Moore if they would endeavour to securethe authority of their respective Colleges to the cancellationof the intimation that the Royal Colleges would not requireregistration by the Medical Council in the Students’ Registerof candidates for their diplomas.

Dr. NORMAN MOORE could give no definite promise whilethe subject was still under discussion.The PRESIDENT asked if the representatives of the two

Royal Colleges would bring the matter before the authoritiesthey respectively represented.

Mr. BRYANT and Dr. NORMAN MOORE replied in theaffirmative.

The -Executive Committee.On a vote by ballot Dr. Payne was elected a member of

the Executive Committee in the room of Dr. Glover, whoretired from membership of the Council at the close of lastyear. _

’ The Midwives Bill.In answer to Mr. BROWN,Sir JOHN BATTY TUKE, who had just arrived from the

House of Commons, stated that the Midwives Bill had passedthe second reading and had been referred to the StandingCommittee on Law, which would probably take it into con-sideration within the next three weeks.On the suggestion of the PRESIDENT it was resolved that

the existing Committee on the Midwives Bill should be con-tinued in order to watch proceedings on the Bill now beforeParliament. Sir John Williams and Mr. Brown were addedto the committee, which is now composed of the President,Sir Christopher Nixon, Mr. Horsley, Dr. MacAlister, SirJohn Williams, and Mr. Brown.

Vote of Thanks and Congratulations.Dr. NORMAN MOORE at the conclusion of business said :

This is a special session and a most trying one, and we oughtas a Council to pass a very hearty vote of thanks to thePresident for his extremely judicial and admirable conductin the chair throughout it.

This proposal was received by the members with applause.The PRESIDENT: I thank you, and let me say that the

whole spirit and temper that has been displayed in this mostimportant debate-one of the most important that has evertaken place in this Council and conducted in a thoroughlybusiness-like way-has been most admirable, and I wish tocongratulate the Council, because it is clear that we can do

things in a thoroughly business-like way when we make upour minds to do so.The Council then rose till the fourth Tuesday in May

next. -

Obituary.LEVI COOPER LANE, LL.D., M.R.C.S.,

OF SAN FRANCISCO.

WE regret to learn by telegram that Dr. Cooper Lane diedon Feb. 18th at San Francisco, of which city he was aleading citizen. Born and educated in America, Dr. Lanevisited this country in 1875 and became a Member of theRoyal College of Surgeons of England in that year. A

nephew of Cooper, the well-known surgeon of San Francisco,Dr. Lane joined him in his practice, to which he succeededon Cooper’s death. Having wealth and no children hedevoted himself to the foundation of the Cooper MedicalCollege, in which he was professor of surgery, and later ofthe Lane Hospital, both of which institutions he lived tosee thronged with students, male and female. Dr. Lane’s

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name has become well known to the medical profession 1in Great Britain in consequence of his having founded Ithe Lane lectureship, an annual office the holder of which is required to deliver 10 lectures in the Cooper College, Ireceiving the liberal salary of 2000 dollars. The first 1incumbent of the post in 1896 was Professor W. Macewen of Glasgow, and he was followed by Mr. Christopher Heath, 1Dr. Clifford Allbutt, Dr. Senn of Chicago, Sir MichaelFoster, and Mr. Malcolm Morris. Professor Ball of Dublinis, we understand, to lecture this year. Dr. Lane contributedvarious papers to the American periodicals and took anactive part in the discussions at the San Francisco MedicalSociety. He published in 1896 an elaborate work on the

Surgery of the Head and Neck, a copy of which is in the 3library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.Amiable and learned, and absolutely free from professionaljealousy, Dr. Cooper Lane was highly respected and wellbeloved by both the public and the profession in California,and he exercised upon the latter an influence which was

always for good. His death will be a great blow to the twoinstitutions which he founded, but we have little doubt thatthey will rapidly recuperate under the distinguished staff ofcolleagues whom Dr. Lane had collected around him.

SEYMOUR GRAVES TOLLER, M.D., M.R.C.P. LOND.WE regret to report the death of Dr. Seymour Graves

Toller of Cairo on Feb. 19th, after an illness of about 10days’ duration, the details of which have not yet arrived.Dr. Toller was 35 years of age. He was educated at

Malvern College where he obtained an exhibition. Heentered the medical school at St. Thomas’s Hospital as afirst year’s student in 1885, obtaining the entrance sciencescholarship. From that time his career showed an uninter-

rupted list of distinctions obtained not only in his own medicalschool but in the wider sphere of the London University.At St. Thomas’s Hospital, amongst his other prizes he

gained the Mead medal for practical medicine. In 1886 hewas awarded the gold medal in materia medica at the

Apothecaries’ Hall. In the M. B. examination of LondonUniversity he secured the University scholarship and goldmedal in medicine and in obstetric medicine. In the M.D.examination also he won the gold medal. In 1896 he tookthe M.R.C.P. In the meantime-that is, from the year1889-he had been actively engaged in various hospitalappointments, culminating in that of resident assistant

physician to St. Thomas’s Hospital for the years 1894to 1897. At the termination of his three years’ officehis dearest hopes were gratified by his election as assistantphysician to the hospital staff. But the clouds were

already lowering over his head. Almost immediatelyafter his appointment he was compelled to resign iton account of the breakdown of his health. He had asevere attack of what at first appeared to be influenza,but in the course of his illness the sputum was

found to be teeming with tubercle bacilli. In a fewmonths’ time his health was outwardly fully re-established,but it was clearly too dangerous for him to attempt to remainin this country ; he accordingly applied for, and obtained,the posts of physician to the Kasr-el-Aini Hospital, Cairo,and professor of clinical medicine in the medical school.There, with the exception of summer visits to this country,the remaining years of his life were passed. He threwhimself with all his energy into both the hospital and teach-ing work, and, in addition, had to satisfy the demands of arapidly increasing practice. His health refused to bear thestrain and a few months ago he resigned his hospitalappointments.

Dr. Toller was known to many outside his profession as abrilliant musician. For many years he played the violin inthe orchestra of the Royal Amateur Orchestral Society andalso had the honour of a seat on the Council. At St.Thomas’s Hospital for 10 years or more no function was com-plete without one of his violin solos. Dr. Toller was pos-sessed of a very remarkable personal charm, the outcome ofhis affectionate, impulsive nature. Everything he did wasdone with an enthusiasm which seemed the keynoteof his character. He was perhaps inclined to be over-

sensitive and at times took offence where no offencewas meant, but the artistic temperament will exact itstoll and none of Dr. Toller’s friends loved him the less forthese little ebullitions. He had contributed little to medical

literature, but the exactions of hospital appointmentsrendered this impossible, and his untimely death has robbed

the future of its fruit. The wonder is, not that he did solittle, but that in his short span of life he achieved so much.Few professional careers can have started with greaterpromise than his and it is an additional pang to his friendsto feel that for long before the final blow his energies wereso hampered by ill-health as to make it impossible for himto justify fully the hopes raised by his youth.

THOMAS SMALLHORN, M.R.C.S.ENG., L.R.C.P.,L. M. EDIN.

THE inhabitants of -L4 ynsham, Oxford, have sustained agreat loss by the death of Mr. Smallhorn who practised for37 years at that place. Mr. Smallhorn was medical officer

of health and public vaccinator for the Eynsham districtof the Witney Union and was certifying surgeon under

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the Factories and Workshops Act. As a practitionerof medicine he was held in great esteem by members ofhis own profession and was much respected by his patientsof all classes. The poor especially will not soon forget hismany acts of kindness and benevolence. Mr. Smallhorn,who was in his sixty-fifth year, had never fully recoveredfrom the after-effects of an attack of influenza of which hewas a victim two years ago, and he died after a fortnight’sillness on Feb. 9th. A widow, one son, and three daughtersmourn their loss.

Medical News.SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES OF LONDON.-In

February the following candidates passed in the subjectsndicated :-

Surgery -W. V. Braddon (Section I.), Cambridge and Manchester ;T. S. Davies, St. George’s Hospital ; E. N. de V. Dawson(Section 11.), St. Thomas’s Hospital; J. C. S. Dunn, St. Bartho-lomew’s Hospital; R. Gauld (Section 11.), London Hospital; S. F.Hickman (Sections I. and 11.), Royal Free Hospital; H. Jacques(Sections I. and II.). London Hospital; C. C. Morgan (Section II.),St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; E. Osborne (Section I.), Birmingham;P. G. Sheppard (Sections I. and II.), Cambridge and Liverpool;and J. H. Williams, London Hospital.

Medicine.-J. E. Bolton (Section 11.), Leeds ; R. Gillett (Sections I.and II.). Royal Free Hospital; C. E. A. Huddart (Sections I. andII.). London Hospital; M. E. S. Scharlieb (Sections I. and 11.),Royal Free Hospital; and C. Watson (Sections I. and II.), Dublinand Westminster Hospital.

Forensic Medicine.-D. Fletcher, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital;M. E. S. Scharlieb. Royal Free Hospital ; and C. Watson, Dublin and Westminster Hospital.

Midwifery.-W. C. P. Bremner, University of Toronto; I. Griffith,London Hospital; M. E. S. Scharlieb, Royal Free Hospital; andR. H. Terry, Guy’s Hospital.

The qualifying diploma of the Society in Medicine, Surgery, andMidwifery was granted to the following candidates:—J. E. Bolton,E. N. de V. Dawson, D. Fletcher, R.. Gillett, C. E. A. Huddart, P. G.Sheppard, and C. Watson.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND.-FELLOWSHIP EXAMINATION.—The following candidates havepassed the examination for the Fellowship :-

F. J. C. Heffernan, Miss M. R. Kapadia, H. Pringle, and M. J. Russell.

The following have passed the primary part of the examina-tion -

F. J. S. Heaney, Miss C. McCrea, and R. S. Ryce.

FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.-Amsterdam : Dr. Otto Lanz, Assistant to Professor Kocher ofBerne, has been appointed Professor of Surgery,-Brussels :Dr. P. Van der Velde has been appointed Director of theMedical Clinic in the Hospital of St. Jean in succession tothe late Dr. Destrée.-Budapest : : Dr. Tiberius von

Gyory has been recognised as privat-docent of the Historyof Medicine. Dr. Ernst Emil Moravesik has been pro-moted to the Ordinary Professorship of Mental Diseases.-Freiburg : Dr. Hugo Sellheim, privat-docent of Midwiferyand Gynaecology, has been promoted to an ExtraordinaryProfessorship.-Greifswald : Dr. Otto Busse, privat-docentof Pathological Anatomy, and Dr. Rudolf Rosemann, privat-docent of Physiology, have been promoted to Professorships.-Leipsic : Dr. Döllken has been recognised as privat-docentof Medicine.-Lemberg : Dr. Julius Marischler has beenrecognised as privat-docent of Internal Medicine, and Dr.Adam Szulislawski as privat-docent of Ophthalmology.-Vienna : Dr. Karl Biehl has been recognised as privat-docentof Otology.