Statutes and bye-laws of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh : made in pursuance of the powers granted by Royal Charter, 1681 ; with charter, letter of ratification, and list of fellows.

  • Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Statutes and bye-laws of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh : made in pursuance of the powers granted by Royal Charter, 1681 ; with charter, letter of ratification, and list of fellows. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on the 1st of May 1848, the Martins Collection was arranged, and ready for inspection. The Animal Preparations amount in this collection to Vegetable do. do., .... Mineral do. do., .... Total, ] 60 1395 309 1864 During the years 1848, 1849, and 1850, the Museum has received a valuable addition in the form of a complete series of Cinchona, and allied Barks, presented by John Elliot Howard, Esq. of Tottenham. This series embraces specimens of all the Barks now met with in British com- merce, and also a series of the Lichens growing on the Barks. On a rough calculation, the present preparations in th e Present state of Mu seum. Museum amount to the following numbers: Animal Preparations, Vegetable do., . Mineral do., . 166 2163 380 Total, 2709 A New Edition of the Laws having been called for, it may be of service to the Fellows to have a shortcsum- mary of the various changes which they have undergone since the first institution of the College in 1681 : — The two first meetings of the (7th and 8th December 1681) First Meetings, 7th. ,, . . . . , , 8th, and 9th Decern- Coliege were occupied with the election of Office-bearers. Im- beribsi. mediately (9th December 1681) thereafter they proceeded under the powers vested in them by the Charter, to enact Laws for Bye-Laws, its due government and welfare.” It is exceedingly interesting to find, that, in addition to fixing the number necessary to con-