Dr. Bell has been appointed Physician to the Out-patient Department at the British Lying-in Hospital.

A card was sent out by the resident medical officer of a large London hospital advising a patient that there was a vacant bed for him. The form of words used on the card is as follows:

"Upon your arrival here present this card to the Hall Porter. If you are unable to come, please return this card at once, and explain the reason why."

The card came back with the following written in pencil:

"He died last March in your institution."

The reason was judged to be adequate.

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The Hospital dinner will take place on 2nd October at the Hotel Cecil.

Professor A. S. F. Grunbaum has been elected Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Chairman of the Board of the Medical Faculty of the University of Leeds in place of Professor de Burgh Birch, who has resigned.

Dr. T. B. Crosby, who was last week elected one of the Sheriffs of the City of London, is in active practice as a physician. He entered the Common Council in 1877, and was elected Alderman in 1898.

Prof. T. Gregor Brodie, F.R.S., is announced to give a course of five lectures at the "Brown "Animal Sanitary Institution (University of London) during the present month.

The Prize Giving.

THERE THERE are certain essential features common to all prize givings, which are so well known that it is unnecessary to do more than briefly refer to them. On the platform are the Treasurer and the staff. On their left is a bench populated with elegantly frockcoated prize winners. In the body of the hall is an audience made up of a judicious mixture of fathers, mothers, sisters, aunts, and other devoted and admiring relatives and friends. Of these it need only be said that they performed their respective tasks in their usual admirable manner. While these features may by regarded as typical and constant in all prize givings, it is our intention to consider in somewhat greater detail such incidents as may be regarded as exceptional in the present instance.

That the prize giving of 1906 would be of special interest seemed likely from the time when it became known that the prizes were to be distributed by the distinguished author of a famous text-book. The most liberal estimates, however, can hardly have equalled the reality, for never before has the Governors' Hall been so full.

Under such circumstances it was not to be expected that those, who stood without, at the extreme fringe of the crowd, could hear everything that was said. Nevertheless, it was understood from Professor Osler's extensive use of his handkerchief that the Treasurer's remarks were of a highly complimentary character. The prizes were presented in the following order:

PRIZES FOR THE SUMMER SESSION, 1905.
Second Year's Students.

W. B. JOHNSON.

COLLEGE PRIZE, £15, and Certificate of Honour.

PRIZES FOR THE WINTER SESSION, 1905-6.
University Scholarships.

G. R. GIRDLESTONE.

SCHOLARSHIP, £50, and Certificate of Honour.

Second Year's Students.

T. E. A. STOWELL.

THE WM. TITE SCHOLARSHIP, £25, and Certificate of Honour.

W. L. PINK.

COLLEGE PRIZE, £20, and Certificate of Honour.

R. C. MAYBURY.

COLLEGE PRIZE, £10, and Certificate of Honour.

Third Year's Students.

W. B. JOHNSON,

THE PEACOCK SCHOLARSHIP, £35, and Certificate of Honour.

E. F. BALLARD.

COLLEGE PRIZE, £20, and Certificate of Honour.

Fourth Year's Students.

R. W. RIX,

Second Tenure of MUSGROVE SCHOLARSHIP, and Certificate of Honour.

(Introduced by the Dean of the Medical School.)

Practical Medicine.

H. J. NIGHTINGALE

H. C. SQUIRES

H. J. NIGHTINGALE..

H. G. BENNETT

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The Mead Medal. The Wainwright Prize.

The Seymour Graves Toller Prize.

C. M. PAGE Qualified for Mead Medal. Certificates of Honour.

R. F. HEBBERT, Qualified for Cheselden Medal. Certificate of Honour.

Beaney Scbolarship in Surgery £50.

G. R. FOOTNER

L. E. C. NORBURY

Divide Scholarship.

The Bristowe Medal.

Pathology and Morbid Anatomy.

R. C. JEWESBURY

For General Proficiency and Good Conduct. H. J. NIGHTINGALE .. The Treasurer's Gold Medal. Then followed a great settling down, and much leaning forward of heads to listen.

Our Hospital, Professor Osler assured us, was especially dear to Canadians as the favourite place for post graduate study in England. We learned, not without a pang of regret, that had it not been for the allurement of the Physiological Laboratory at University College, we might to-day have numbered him as an old student of the hospital.

We were comforted to hear that he had studied clinical medicine in our wards, and had learnt much, as so many have done since, from Dr. Sharkey, in those days Resident Assistant Physician.

He complimented the Treasurer on his balance sheet and the Hospital on its clinical laboratory. For Hospital work without research was like an army composed of an ambulance corps without a fighting line. He referred to the needs of the " poor rich" as contrasted with the "rich poor," for whom the great hospitals of the world afford the greatest medical skill and the most perfect methods of cure, and congratulated the Hospital on the work that was being done in St. Thomas's Home.

He then turned to the Students and emphasised the one text on which he was always ready to preach to them: "Take no thought of the morrow, but just do your day's work as well as it can be done."

He told them not to be in too much hurry. Also he told them that they must educate and develop their hearts, not the heart usually so-called, that they had better keep in cold storage for some years, but their intellectual heart.

They should all know German and French well and should be able to read them quickly and easily. And they should know the great works by all the great authors, especially of our own country. He said that ordinary young men should devote at least an hour a day to this, and medical students at least half-an-hour.

The subsequent proceedings hardly call for lengthy comment. The drinking of tea and the visiting of wards brought to a close a very pleasant afternoon.