Proceedings at the eleventh anniversary meeting of the Hunterian Society, held on the 10th of February, 1830, with the report and list of officers and members.

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1830
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Credit: Proceedings at the eleventh anniversary meeting of the Hunterian Society, held on the 10th of February, 1830, with the report and list of officers and members. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    la 131? 0)12 IP PEESENTSD DY THE COUNCIL OF THE HUNTERIAN SOCIETY, TO THE XXEVENTH AZTNIVSRSAIkV MEETING, Held February lOth, 1830. The Council, in presenting their Report, feel that it will not be unseasonable very briefly to advert to some of the numerous advantages which arise from social discussions. They consider this as one of the most easy and successful methods of preserving the recol- lection of facts—of rousing attention to phenomena apt to pass unobserved—and of improving the powers of perception and discrimination. By free conference and discussion among men varying in their talents and bias, difficult points are most successfully elucidated. The subject is represented in all its forms and bearings: one individual supplies light from past ages—another from the purer sources of the present—and all combine the testimony of their own observations and experience. In this way, occurrences related to one another, but having appearances of dissimilarity—and others seem- ingly analogous, but widely different—are seen in their true characters; so that obscure and mistaken facts, of B