Record of the events and work which led to the formation of that society by the amalgamation of the leading medical societies of London with the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society : being extracts from the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, 1905-1907 / Royal Society of Medicine.

Royal Society of Medicine

Date:: 1914

Credit: Record of the events and work which led to the formation of that society by the amalgamation of the leading medical societies of London with the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society : being extracts from the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, 1905-1907 / Royal Society of Medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$In view of the facts that 3525 persons already subscribe £1 \s. to these eighteen societies per annum, that 1272 pay from c€2 2,9. upwards, and that under the proposed scheme many individuals who are not Fellows of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society would become Fellows of the Royal Society of Medicine at an annual subscription of £3 3s., your Committee consider that the New Society would have a sufficient balance of income over expenditure to provide for improvements and for any sinking fund rendered necessary by extensions to 20^ Hanover Square, supposing that all the scheduled societies joined. This is shown more clearly from the following estimate of subscriptions which may be received from members of the various societies who are not Fellows of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society : *600 members of societies as Fellows at £3 3s. £1890 3200 members at £1 Is. . . . 3360 Library subscriptions at £1 Is.^ say . . 525 £5775 If this £5775 replaces the conservative estimate of * The estimate of 600 is arrived at as follows:—The latest figures supplied by the accountants show that 1300 individuals pay £2 2s. upwards in annual subscriptions. [751 individuals belong to 2 societies. 300 134 72 31 5 6 1 ] The number of Fellows of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society who pay £3 3s. per annum is 440; of these, 390 are members of one or more other societies. If we deduct 390 from 1300 we have left 910 as the number of individuals—apart from Fellows of the E.M.C.S. who pay £3 3s.—who belong to more than one society. The Committee suggest that probably 600 of these woiild become Fellows of the New Society at an annual subscription of £3 3s. VOL. LXXXVIU.$