President's address (Robert Barnes, M. D.) : delivered at the annual general meeting of the Obstetrical Society of London, January 2nd, 1867 / [by Robert Barnes].

  • Barnes, Robert, 1817-1907.
Date:
1868
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Credit: President's address (Robert Barnes, M. D.) : delivered at the annual general meeting of the Obstetrical Society of London, January 2nd, 1867 / [by Robert Barnes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Hon. E. I. Co.’s service. He was cut off' at the age of sixty- two on the 8th of July. John Pudsey Welshman Sydenham, Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries, practised at Islip in Oxfordshire. He died on the 26th of June. Reginald Bayley Walters, of William Street, Regent’s Park. He was M.R.C.S. and M.S.A. He was educated at Bartholomew’s. Edward Guest, F.R.C.S., died on the- 4th of January, 1866, at the age of forty-nine. He practised in Halsey Street, Chelsea. Andrew Sisson, M.R.C.S., died on January 4th, aged fifty-seven. He practised at Reigate. Francis Bennett, F.R.C.S., of Gateshead, died on the 24th of September, at the age of fifty-nine. He was edu- cated at Edinburgh and the Borough hospitals. He wrote several useful memoirs on points of practice in medicine, He was Surgeon to the Gateshead Dispensary and Lying- in Charity, and was a Justice of the Peace. William Quarrel, M.R.C.S., died at Torquay, on the 10th of February, at the early age of twenty-five. Edward Williams Richard, M.R.C.S. and L.A.S., of Finchingfield, Essex. He was the author of several essays in general literature. William Middleton, F.R.C.S., of Leamington, died July 4th, aged sixty-three. Our finances are in a sound condition, as the Auditors’ Report will show. Notwithstanding the extraordinary demand upon our resources made by the Exhibition and the Catalogue, we have managed to add £50 to our funded capital. We have now a sum representing £1012 19$. Qd. in the 3 per cents. ; a position I think you will agree with me in regarding as eminently satisfactory. In previous years we have indeed invested more largely in the funds ; but this year we have acted boldly upon that policy which I ventured to advocate when I had the honour of addressing you last year: we have put out our spare cash at scientific interest.