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
Licence: In copyright
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.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
128/230 page 118
![—of these medical societies. Therefore this Society, 1 thinkj is doing more perhaps than any other Society in the way of endeavouring to promote the general welfare of the profession and the welfare of medicine in coming forward ; nd taking, as it has done, a very leading part in en- deavouring to obtain this desirable amalgamation. For that it is desirable I think is admitted by all, or admitted by almost all. Therefore I will not say anything more upon that ground. But certainly it is a very serious matter for this Society, and, as Hon. Treasure!', I would like to tell the Society that, during the more than ten years I have been Treasurer, it has never been in a sounder financial position than it is now. We have managed to wipe out our floating debt, which was some years ago very considerable, and, as you have seen in the accounts laid before you from year to year, during the last few years our annual expenditure has been within our annual income. So that we are in a perfectly sound position, and in that way we have nothing to gain by amalgamation. I Avould therefore now formally move the resolution, and I shall be happy, so far as I am able, to answer any questions which maybe ]3ut with regard to the matter contained in this Report. The resolution which I have to put is as follows : That the ' Report on the Union of Medical Societies as amended and adopted at the Meeting of the General Committee of Representatives of the Societies held on July 19th, 1905' b'e and is hereby approved and adopted, subject to the modifications recommended bv the Council of the Eoyal Medical and Chirurgical Society, and that the Council be and is hereby in- structed to endeavour, in negotiating with the General Committee of Representatives of the Societies, to secure the adoption of all those modifications. Dr. Robert Hutchison.—I rise, sir, I confess, with some difiidence, to second the proposal which has been moved by Sir William Church. On an occasion like this it may be thought, and quite naturally, that the initiative should be left to senior Fellows in the Society, but I venture to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21471605_0128.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
