The annual address, delivered before the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, at the anniversary meeting held on Monday, March 1, 1852 / by Joseph Hodgson.

  • Joseph Hodgson
Date:
1852
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Credit: The annual address, delivered before the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, at the anniversary meeting held on Monday, March 1, 1852 / by Joseph Hodgson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    THli ROYAL MEDICAL AND CIIIE OF LONDON. ANNUAL AD DELIVERER BEFORi Gentlemen,—Our Society was established for the extension of knowledge : First, by obtaining and publishing Essays and Communications on the various branches of Medicine and Surgery; secondly, by publicly discussing those communica- tions, with the view to elicit additional information on the subjects to which they relate; and thirdly, for the purpose of diffusing knowledge by the formation and use of an extensive library of works on medicine and surgery and the collateral sciences. The report which has this day been made to you by your council will, I trust, convince you that these objects have been successfully promoted during the past year. The finan- cial condition of our Society was never more prosperous; a considerable addition of books has been made to our library, which now contains upwards of 25,000 volumes; and the 34th volume of our Transactions, which was published at the com- mencement of the present session, is, from the importance and originality of the papers which it contains, worthy of its place by its predecessors. Probably also it will be regarded as evidence of the thriving state of our Society, that during the last year the number of new Fellows who have sought and ob- tained admission upon our list exceeds that of several pre- ceding years. But death has, during that time, removed from amongst us an unusual number of our associates; and it is my duty on this occasion to follow the example of my predecessors by bringing to your notice the deeds and characters of those who are no more. Such a retrospect, whilst it may tend to excite activity and usefulness in ourselves, is due from the