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sidering whether further legislation is required. Mean-while, as the House is aware, I have caused several clauseswhich I think may be useful to be inserted in the PublicHealth (Metropolis) Bill.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, INDIA.

In answer to Dr. Lush, Lord G. HAMILTON said,-TheGovernment of India have for some time past had the wholequestion of the Army Medical Service in India under theirconsideration, but they have not communicated any con-clusions. I am not, therefore, in a position to be able tostate what modifications may be proposed, or the reasonsfor them.

Thursday, July 19th.SECRET DRINKING.

Mr. DALRYMPLE asked the Secretary of State for the HomeDepartment if his attention has been called to a memorialsigned by 900 medical practitioners, published in a recentnumber of THE LANCET, setting forth the evils resulting intheir opinion, especially to women, from the purchase underthe guise of necessaries of spirituous liquors from licensedgrocers. And, whether he will bring that memorial underthe notice of the Commission about to take evidence on thatsubject.Mr. Secretary CROSS.-Mr. Speaker,-My attention has

not been called to this memorial except by the question ofmy hon. friend. I made inquiries this morning upon thematter, but did not find that any memorial has been pre-sented to the Secretary of State upon the subject. Myright hon. friend the Lord Advocate is about-I believe inthe course of next week-to appoint these commissioners,and any memorial that may come either to him or to me Iwill take care to forward to them. (Hear, hear.)

Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.-

The following gentlemen passed the examination in Ana-tomy and Physiology at recent meetings of the Board ofExaminers:-Edward J. Biden, George B. Wall, and William E. Sicard, Charing-crossHospital; Arthur Price, Frederick R. Walters, W. Williams, and S. W.Sutton, St. Thomass Hospital; Samuel J. Gabriel, Norman Rushworth,L. P. Mark, Frank Rushworth, Charles P. Hooker, H. Smith, WilliamOuthwaite, and Alfred S. Mackrell, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; H. M.Duncan, William R. Parker, Frank Parish, L. C. Ponsford, Albert H.Rees, H. Sainsbury, Robert S. Walton, J. E. Hine, and Frederick H.Tinker, University College ; James Fulton, Toronto and St. Thomas’sHospital; Henry C. Burrows, Liverpool; James H. Greensill, Middle-sex Hospital; A. H. Bampton and J. Smith, Westminster Hospital;V. E. Hunter, H. T. Griffiths, John G. Webb, H. W. Shettle, and L. R.Heyland, St. George’s Hospital; Lawrence Humphry and A. C. Buller,Cambridge ; Robert Brookes, G. M. Mac Donald, and J. Balls, King’sCollege ; Percy Brown, London Hospital; F. S. Dennis, New York ;J. J. Robins and Wm. M. Taylor, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Arthur Harrisonand J. W. L. Russell, Sheffield ; Gilbert Kirker, Belfast; Albert Bever-ley and H. N. Oglesby, Leeds; W. R. Bates, John D. Hayward, A.Manners, F. E. Ackerley, and Alfred J. Pickworth, Liverpool; B. H.Dale and William P. Dester, Bristol; H. G. Brooke, J. K. Milne, E. L.Luckman, H. A. Dixon, and William Gibbon, Manchester ; 0. Todd,Aberdeen ; William A. C. 0. Sankey, University College, Birmingham,and Glasgow ; William J. Baker, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital ; SetonG. Hamilton and W. Dunn, St. George’s Hospital; W. Benthall, Cam-bridge ; Edward J. Freeman, Dublin; S. N. Rendall and H. W. King,Edinburgh.

Of 137 candidates examined, 58 failed to satisfy the Board,and were referred for three months’ further anatomical andphysiological study.At the last meeting of the Council of the Royal College of

Surgeons, Mr. John Birkett was elected President of theCollege, and Mr. John Simon, C.B., F.R.S., and Mr. LutherHolden, Vice- Presidents, for the ensuing year. Dr. Humphry,F.R.S., declined to be put in nomination.

APOTHECARIES’ HALL. - The following gentlemenpassed the examination in the Science and Practice of Medicine and received certificates to practise on the 12th inst. :-

Fagg, Thomas William, Alkham, near Dover.Green, Thomas Beaufoy, Kendal.Rawsun, Ernest, Taranaki, New Zealand.R akefield, Thomas, Nottingham-place.Wright, Arthur, St. Mary’s-terrace.

The following gentlemen also passed the Primary Pro-fessional Examination:—

Frederick Charles Fisher and Charles Alfred Webb, St. George’s Hospital;Anthony Alfred Bowlby, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital,

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN IRELAND. -The following gentlemen obtained the licences in Medicineand Midwifery at the July examinations :—

MEDioiNB.—Hen. Arthur Charlton, John Patrick Clarke, Joseph Clarke,Jas. Vincent Clinch, John Conry, O’Connell Juhn Delahoyde, EbenezerDonaldson, John Joseph Dingenan, Francis Charles Fisher, SamuelM’Culloch Higgins, John B. Jennings, George Kisby, George Lyndon,William Rowlands, James Foster Rngg, Walter Henry Ryan, HenryRobert Sherrard, Richard Baker Smith, John Henry Thompson, Richd.G. Tyner, Walter Henry Winter, James Harold Wilde.

Midwifery. - Henry Charlton, John P. Clarke, James Vincent Clinch,John Conry, Freeman Wills Crofts, O’Connell John Delahoyde, EbenezerDonaldson, John J. Dingenan, William Fairbank, Francis Chas. Fisher,Francis George Goodman, William Hamilton, Samuel Higgins, GeorgeKisby, George Lyndon, Malachi O’Dwyer, J. Foster Rugg, Walter Hen.Ryan, Henry R. Sherrard, Richard B. Smith, Richard Gelling Tyner,James E. Thompson, John Henry Thompson, George Westby, JamesHarold Wylde.

AT the ceremony of presentation of prizes at theGlasgow Ophthalmic Institution this week, a flatteringmemorial was presented to Dr. Wolfe, by the students ofthe University, expressive of their appreciation of themanner in which he had conducted his course of instructionthroughout the session now come to a close.SOUTH DURHAM AND CLEVELAND MEDICAL SOCIETY.

- own Thursday, the 12th July, the President of thisflourishing Society, Dr. Smith, entertained between fortyand fifty of the members at the Durham County Asylum,Sedgefield, of which he is medical superintendent. Aftervisiting the wards or amusing themselves in the gardenwith lawn tennis, &c., they proceeded to an excellentluncheon. The fine weather added considerably to the en-joyment of those present.

BRADFORD MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY.—ThisSociety has just terminated a very successful session, andheld its fifteenth annual meeting. The membership nowincludes a large majority of Bradford practitioners, andmany of those from the populous districts surrounding thetown. During the past session the committee concluded anarrangement with the Board of the Bradford Infirmary, bywhich the Society finds a permanent home within the wallsof that institution, obtains the use of a large and increasinglyuseful medical library, and secures facilities for the prosecu.tion of pathology, and the formation of a museum. TheSociety has to deplore the loss of its president for the year,J. D. Lawrie, M.R.C.S., &c., who died suddenly on the IstJanuary, 1877. The officers elected for the ensuing year areas follows: - President: R. H. Meade. Treasurer: W.

Whalley. Secretary: D. Goyder. Curators: A. habagliati,M.D., and T. C. Denby. Auditors: J. Foster and J. H.Bell, M.D. Committee: W. Burnie, M.D., P. E. Miall, J.Arthur, and E. T. Tibbits, M.D.

Medical Appointments.BARNES, Dr. F., has been elected Physician to the British Lying.in

Hospital.BA.TTERBURY, G. H., M.B., M.R.C.S.E., has been appointed Medical Officer

of Health for the No. 1 Sub-district of the Wimborne and CranborneRural Sanitary District, vice Druitt, resigned.

BLACEFOBD, J. C., M.R.C.S.E., L.S.A.L., has been appointed Medical Officerof Health for the Cannock Urban Sanitary District.

BucE, J. S., has been appointed Obstetric Assistant to University CollegeHospital, vice Bond, whose time has expired.

CANT, W. E., F.R.C.S.E., L.R.C.P.L., has been appointed Medical Tutor atthe Bristol Medical School.

CANTLIE, Dr. J., has been appointed Examiner in Botany and Natura!History at the University of Aberdeen, vice Trail, appointed Professorof Botany.

COOPER, G. C., L.F.P.S.G., has been appointed Medical Officer to the Cannockand Rugeley Colliery, vice Suffield, deceased.

CRAWFORD, W., M.B., C.M., has been appointed Medical Officer for theWitton District of the Blackburn Union.

Do$4rr, A. H. G., F.R.C.S., has been appointed Pathological Assistant tothe Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, vice Goodhart,resigned.

DRING, W. E., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., L.S.A.L. & L.M., has been appointedSurgeon to, Public Vaccinator, and Medi’-al Officer of Health of, theThird Division of Faversham Union, vice Francis, resigned.

DYER, S. S., M.D., L.R.C.P.L., has been reappointed Medical Officer ofHealth for the Ringwood Rural Sanitary District for one year.

ELMSLIE, W. W., L.F.P.S., L.S.A., &c. (late Surgeon in the ImperialOttoman Army), has been appointed Surgeon in the service of thePeninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.

FAIRLEY, T., F.C.S., has been appointed Public Analyst for Wakefield forone year: 128.6d. per analysis, and 21s, when required to give evidencein support of an information,