compelled him to resign. This latter office has been remodelled, and the Superintendent has now the charge of all works and repairs required to be done within the College. Mr. G. A. Timme, who has been elected to this office, is discharging its joint duties most efficiently, and the result is already apparent in the increased number of working hours during which the Workshop is open to Students under the care and instruction of the Superintendent, in the increased facilities afforded them of acquiring practical information, and in the economy and despatch with which repairs and alterations in the fabric of the College are executed.

The new DEPARTMENT of MILITARY SCIENCE, as being in some degree related to the two Departments just mentioned, seems next to claim the attention of the General Court. The anticipations which were formed in reference to this new branch of the Institution have been thus far fully realized. The number of Students has fluctuated during the year, many of the Military Students having entered with the immediate view of preparing for the examination before the Military Board at Sandhurst, whilst others are continuing their studies in the higher branches of instruction, with the hope of qualifying themselves as thoroughly educated Officers for situations of trust in the Service. Experience has pointed out the best method of suiting the instruction to the special wants of each Student. Various models have been provided for the illustration of the different Military Works, partly by the assistance of the Council, and partly in presents from friends of the College. Amongst the latter, the Council wish to specify a present spontaneously offered by the Master General and Board of Ordnance, one of many proofs of confidence and good-will, a model of the Fortifications at Portsmouth.

A separate Class has been formed for Officers in the Queen's and the East India Company's Service, and four Officers of the latter army, who have been several years with their regiments in India, have joined it. As there is no suitable Institution at which Officers of the East India Company's Service can pursue their studies in the many important branches of their

profession, it may be expected that many, while on furlough, will avail themselves of the very great advantages offered to them by King's College.

During the past year the Council have directed a large share of their attention to the state of the MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Well as the existing arrangements had worked, they were evidently capable of improvement. Accordingly, the system of discipline which for some years past has been growing more efficient, has been since the last Report still further improved, and more completely assimilated to that already in force in other Departments of the College. The appointment of a permanent Dean, and the indefatigable vigilance and exertions of Professor Guy, who has accepted that office, have contributed to the more perfect and uniform working of the system; and if the experience of one year may be relied on, there is every reason to believe that the recent changes will conduce not less to the comfort and convenience of the Students than to the satisfaction of Parents. The conduct and industry of the great body of the Medical Students have been most satisfactory.

The means and appliances of teaching within the College, in the form of Museums and Libraries, have been largely increased during the last year, both by donations and purchase, as well as by preparations executed within the College itself; and all the collections are in a good state of preservation.

In contrast with the facilities for instruction thus provided, the Council again notice with regret the limited accommodation which the present Hospital affords. The Council would by no means undervalue the usefulness of the present Hospital, whether considered as a charitable Institution, or as an adjunct to the Medical Department. But its accommodations are no longer adequate to either of these objects. The mere want of space, while it limits the number of Patients, occasions almost insurmountable difficulties to any scheme for perfecting that part of the system of discipline adopted in the College, which consists in the registration of the attendance on the several classes.

Happily, however, this difficulty is in the course of removal. At the suggestion of an anonymous person, calling himself a "Friend of the Hospital," who has munificently offered 2,000l., a great effort is now in progress towards raising a fund for the Building and Endowment of a new Hospital. A Committee having been formed in May last, consisting partly of members of the Council and of the Committee of Management of the Hospital, and partly of other friends of the cause, including the Professors of the Medical Department, steps were taken to set on foot this work; and some progress had already been made in raising subscriptions, when a fresh impulse was given to the design by an offer on the part of the before-named munificent "Friend of the Hospital," to raise his previously offered donation of 2,000l. to 5,0007., on condition that the Council would advance the like sum. Thus called upon, the Council felt that they would not be justified in refusing to consider the proposal. The result of much anxious deliberation, was the conviction, that they owed it alike to the furtherance of medical science under moral discipline and religious teaching, to the just expectations of present and future Medical Students, to the extension and even to the maintenance of this School of Medicine, and consequently to the general welfare of all the departments of the College, to invest by degrees this large sum, (to be returned hereafter with manifold interest,) in helping to provide adequate means of clinical instruction for the increasing number of Students, which the improvements in the discipline of the College are already attracting. Accordingly, at a Special Meeting of the Council, convened for Friday, Dec. 7, 1849, the following Resolutions were passed, which have been already circulated amongst the Proprietors, but which it is thought well to place upon record at this Annual Meeting; they are as follows:

"I. That the Hospital in connexion with King's College, London, has become an essential part of the Institution, since without it the clinical instruction and actual experience necessary for medical students cannot be satisfactorily obtained; that, in fact, the wards of the Hospital are so many additional lecture-rooms attached to the College.

"II. That the Council are convinced that the objects which they had in view in establishing the Medical Department have been so far attained, as to render its maintenance, in a still more efficient state, of the greatest importance. The Council rest their conviction of the advantages already obtained upon the following grounds:

"1. That a large body of medical men are already dis

persed over the kingdom, who furnish indisputable evidence to the good effects of the training, religious and professional, which they have enjoyed in King's College.

"2.—That there is an increasing number of Students attracted by the reputation of the College, who are cheerfully undergoing an improved course of discipline, and who promise not only to maintain, but even to raise the character of the Institution.

“III. That from the concurrent testimony of the medical members of their own body, and of the several gentlemen engaged in the instruction of the medical students, the Council are convinced that the present Hospital is insufficient for the purposes of the Medical School of King's College, even with its present number of Students.

"IV. That from the testimony of the gentlemen who have year by year filled the office of Dean of the Medical Department, confirmed as this testimony is both by the Principal and the Secretary, the Council believe that the number of Students in Medicine at this College would be largely increased, if the Hospital were enlarged and the means of instruction extended.

"V. That under these circumstances, the Council have no hesitation in recommending the General Court of Governors and Proprietors, to sanction a grant in furtherance of the plan which is now proposed for the Building and Endowment of a new Hospital.

"VI. That considering the magnitude of the work to be undertaken, and the munificent offer made to them by an unknown Friend to the Hospital,' the Council recommend the General Court of Governors and Proprietors to sanction a

vote of 5,000l., to be paid to the Committee for the Building and Permanent Endowment of King's College Hospital, on such conditions as the Council shall think fit.

"VII. That a Motion, founded on the foregoing Resolutions, be submitted to an Extraordinary General Court of the Governors and Proprietors of King's College, London, to be held at the College on Friday, December 21, at two o'clock."

Such, then, were the arguments which induced the Council to recommend a grant of 5,000l. to this object; and such were the motives which prevailed with the General Court on the 21st of December, 1849, and led the Proprietors present at that Meeting unanimously to accede to this proposition. The Council rejoice to be able to add, that the Funds for promoting this work have been rapidly increasing, until, on the day on which this Court is assembled, upwards of 25,000l. have been subscribed. When they remember that this Hospital, as a Charity, is relieving upwards of 22,000 patients annually, and, as a school of instruction, is now affording practical information of the most important kind to 159 of their Students, the Council cannot refrain from commending this work to the co-operation of individual members of this Court.

Dr. Major reports most favourably of the state of King's College SCHOOL. It appears that, under his able superintendence, the behaviour and diligence of the Pupils have been exemplary; that no case of misconduct has occurred which it has been necessary to visit with severity; that the Terminal Examinations have given satisfactory evidence of the good and sound progress made by the Pupils, and that the judgment formed of them within the School itself has been confirmed by the distinctions of various kinds which have been obtained by them at the Universities. In particular, it deserves mention, that, amongst those who graduated as Wranglers at Cambridge in the last examination, five had been Pupils of the School; and that, at Oxford, the same Pupil who was noticed in the last Report as having gained an open Scholarship at Balliol College, has been elected in the past term to the University Mathematical Scholarship, open to all Undergraduates. Dr. Major