[President's addresses at the opening of the General Medical Council].

Donald MacAlister

Date:: [1909-1927]

Credit: [President's addresses at the opening of the General Medical Council]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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aspect of the subject in hand and pointing the way to a right decision. In administration as well as in debate he bore his part to our advantage, for during six years, when our finances gave occasion for some anxiety, he acted as one of our Treasurers, and assisted in restoring our affairs to a more prosperous condi- tion. Professor Young, first as representative of the federal Victoria University, and afterwards of the Victoria University of Manchester, was one of the numerous body of anatomists who have done and are doing good service to the Council. His strong common-sense, his alert understanding, and his reticent temper, were characteristic of the northern schools in which he was trained, and on which he reflected honour by his scientific achievements. In the work of our Committees, and of our judicial sessions, we shall often miss his quiet but efficient co-operation. To both of these colleagues, who are now called upon to cease from active exertion, the Council will wish increase of strength and comfort in the enjoyment of their well- earned rest. Though it is now twelve years since Mr Wheelhouse withdrew from office as a representative, he continued to be con- nected with the English Branch Council as one of its Trustees. His death at a good old age, in happy and honoured retirement, recalls to those who were privileged to be associated with him his ten years’ tenure as one of the first directly-elected members of the Council. By his kindly nature, his great experience, and his practical wisdom, he commended the prin- ciples for which he stood to his colleagues of the older regime, with the result that the changes involved in the Medical Act of 1886 came into operation with little difficulty and no friction. The University of London has sent us a distinguished member of its Senate in the place of Dr Pye-Smith, and the Faculty of Glasgow its Visitor in the place of Dr Lindsay Steven. To Dr Frederick Taylor and Dr David Knox we offer the welcome which is due to their personal merits and services, no less than to their professional eminence. We may count with confidence on receiving from both the benefit of their special knowledge and experience. In accordance with my duty as President, it has fallen to me to make representations to the Government, through the

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