medical schools of England. Nor must I omit to mention that the Jacksonian Prize has been awarded by the Royal College of Surgeons to one of our Staff, formerly a pupil here, and now one of the Assistant Surgeons of the Hospital-Mr Henry Lee.

No changes of any importance have taken place in the Medical Staff since the last Report.

The Library and Museums have received several additions by gift or purchase. Among the donations to the Museums, I must particularly mention a small collection of preparations presented by Dr. James Reid. Other valuable additions have been made by the Professors, by the Curator, and by Students. I am also particularly requested to acknowledge the services rendered to the Curator last summer by Mr. F. W. Headland, a Medical Student, in arranging the Herbaria, and by Mr. J. J. W. Watson, a Student of the Department of Applied Sciences, with the Geological Collection. An important means of instruction has moreover been added to the Museum, in the form of a Microscope, with a series of microscopic preparations.

King's College Hospital continues to realize all the expectations with which it was established. As a charity it confers great benefits on the poor and crowed neighbourhood which surrounds it, and, indeed, on the whole metropolis, from every part of which it attracts Patients. As a place of education it has proved equally successful. But the narrow and imperfect accommodation which it affords is becoming more and more painfully apparent with the rapid increase of Patients and of Pupils. The building which did not offer all the accommodation we required when its Patients did not much exceed 9,000 in the year, and the annual entry of Students fell short of 50, now that the number of its patients exceeds 22,000, and the yearly entry of Students is increased by nearly one-half, is utterly inadequate. The necessity of a larger and more commodious building has therefore forced itself upon the attention of the public, and great efforts are being made to supply the deficiency. A friend of the Hos

pital, whose name has not transpired, has headed a new subscription list with the munificent donation of 5,000l., attaching to it certain conditions which are happily in the course of fulfilment. A sum of 25,000l., being the half of 50,000l. deemed necessary for the Building and permanent Endowment of a new Hospital, is already subscribed, to which sum a considerable addition is confidently anticipated from the approaching Festival, and the zealous exertions of its long list of more than 250 patrons. The Building and Endowment Committee have already taken the necessary steps for completing the purchase of the existing Hospital, and of such property as they deem necessary for the enlargement of the site, and they have made much progress with other preliminary arrangements. We can now, therefore, look forward to the speedy realization of the object which we have so long had at heart—the possession of an Hospital adequate to the demands made upon it as a charity on the one hand, and as an essential complement of the Medical School of this College, on the other-an Hospital worthy of the high standing of the College, and the flourishing state of its Medical School. As a member of the several Committees appointed to carry out this great design, I can assure the Council that no efforts will be spared to bring it to an early and successful issue. The combined exertions of some most influential members of the Council, of the Rev. the Principal of the College, of the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, and members of the Hospital Committee of Management, with the willing co-operation of the friends of the College and Hospital, and of the public at large, cannot fail of being crowned with success. I should be wanting to myself and to my Colleagues, if I were to lose this opportunity of acknowledging the invaluable services rendered to this good cause by all the parties to whom I have just alluded, and if I failed to associate with them the esteemed Secretary of this College, to whom we are under the greatest obligations. It would be equally ungrateful to the Professors of other Departments of the College, and the Masters of the School, to omit the acknowledgment due to them for the very kind and liberal

manner in which they have always supported this necessary adjunct to the College, and especially for the zeal with which they have combined to further the success of the forthcoming Festival. Our thanks are also due to many of our Students, past and present, who have given us their zealous co-operation.

For your Grace's kindness and condescension in consenting to preside at the morning meeting of the 15th of May, no less than for your countenance on the present and on former occasions, our thanks are especially due, and we feel assured that the satisfaction which your Grace will have in thus inaugurating the Festival of 1850, will not be diminished by the recollection that the evening meeting will be presided over by a former pupil, now an Honorary Fellow of this College, who loses no fitting opportunity of acknowledging that the seeds of the distinction he has reaped on the field of battle were sown in the peaceful studies carried on within these walls.

SECTION I.

The following are the Subjects of the different Lectures given in this Department, with the Names of the Professors, &c.

I. RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION, according to the principles of the United Church of England and Ireland, by the Rev. the PRINCIPAL, and the Rev. E. H. PLUMPTRE, M.A. Chaplain.

II. ANATOMY, DESCRIPTIVE AND SURGICAL.-Richard Partridge, Esq. F.R.S. Professor; William Brinton, Esq. M.D., and Henry Lee, Esq. F.R.C.S. Demonstrators; Henry Hyde Salter and John Wood, Assistant Demonstrators.

III. PHYSIOLOGY: GENERAL AND MORBID ANATOMY.-Robert B. Todd, Esq. M.D. F.R.S. Professor, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and William Bowman, F.R.S. Professor.

IV. CHEMISTRY, THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL.-W. A. Miller, Esq. M.D. F.R.S. Professor, assisted by J. E. Bowman, Esq. Demonstrator.

V. MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS.-J. Forbes Royle, Esq. M.D. F.R.S. F.G.S. Professor.

VI. PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SURGERY.-William Fergusson, Esq. F.R.S. Professor.

VII. PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.-George Budd, Esq. M.D. F.R.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Professor.

VIII. MIDWIFEry, and the Diseases of Women and ChilDREN.-Arthur Farre, Esq. M.D. F.R.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Professor.

IX. BOTANY.-Edward Forbes, Esq. F.R.S. F.L.S. Professor. X. FORENSIC MEDICINE.-W. A. Guy, Esq. M.B. F.S.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Professor.

XI. COMPARATIVE ANATOMY.-T. Rymer Jones, Esq. F.R.S. Professor.

XII. DEMONSTRATIONS IN CHEMICAL MANIPULATION.-John E. Bowman, Esq. Demonstrator.

XIII. ANALYTICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL CHEMISTRY.-W.A. Miller, Esq. M.D.; and J. E. Bowman, Esq.

XIV. RESIDENT MEDICAL TUTOR.-Wm. Brinton, Esq. M.D. XV. DEAN OF THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.-Dr. Guy.

XVI. KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.

Trustees.-The Corporation of King's College, London.
Consulting Physician.-Thomas Watson, Esq. M.D.

Physicians for In-Patients.-George Budd, Esq. M.D. F.R.S.; R. B. Todd, Esq. M.D. F.R.S.

Physician to the Out-Patients.-W. A. Guy, Esq. M.B.
Assistant Physician.-George Johnson, Esq. M.D.

Consulting Physician for Diseases of Women and Children.— Robert Ferguson, Esq. M.D. F.R.S.

Physician for Diseases of Women and Children, and Physician Accoucheur.-Arthur Farre, Esq. M.D. F.R.S.

Surgeons.-Professor W. Fergusson, F.R.S.; Professor Rich. Partridge, F.R.S.

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Assistant-Surgeons.-Professor William Bowman, F.R.S.;

Henry Lee, Esq. F.R.C.S.

Surgeon-Dentist.-S. Cartwright, Jun., Esq.

Dispenser.-Francis Blackburn, Esq.

Chaplain. The Rev. John Oliver, M.A.

Committee of Management-1849.

W. T, Copeland, Esq. M.P. and Alderman, Chairman.
T. G. Sambrooke, Esq. Deputy-Chairman.

Rev. J. S. M. Anderson.

G. Bulpett, Esq.
James Capel, Esq.
Robert Cheere, Esq.
W. A. Eade, Esq.
Rev. W. W. Ellis, M.A.
C. Heberden, Esq.
Rev. R. W. Jelf, D.D.
Rev. J. R. Major, D.D.
Wm. Moody, Esq.
Major Moore.

E. F. Moore, Esq.

Secretary.-John

Nathaniel Powell, Esq.

Sir Walter Riddell, Bart.
Ven. Archdeacon Robinson.
W. H. Smith, Esq.
John Stilwell, Esq.
S. H. Sterry, Esq.
Mr. Serjeant Storks.
R. B. Todd, Esq. M.D.
Francis Wigg, Esq.
Edward Wigram, Esq.
Edward Willoughby, Esq.
The Rev. the Chaplain.
Lyon, Esq.

I. RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.

Lectures will be delivered every Friday Morning during the Academical Year, by the Chaplain. These will be so arranged as to embrace the following subjects during the Three Years' Course of each Medical Student.

I. The Old Testament.

II. The New Testament.

III. The Church Catechism.

All Students will be required to attend these Lectures during the first Two Years from their Matriculation.

There will be a Voluntary Examination on the subjects treated of in the Lectures, in the months of December, March, and July; and Certificates of proficiency will be given to those who pass the Examination satisfactorily.