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 comitia held in June, a resolution expressed in the following terms was passed :—

“That there shall be one or more Croonian lecturers appointed by the College, who shall be required to deliver lectures on one or more subjects in anatomy, physiology, and pathology, witha view to the prevention, control, and cure of disease ; and that the College shall devote the funds derived from the Croonian Trust (1) to the payment of such lecturer or lecturers, and (2) to the contribu- tion of such sums as the College may think fit towards the promotion of scientific investigation on the subject of the lectures.”

Thus has the College determined to dispose of the increased income that has fallen into its hands through the chance influence that has becn wrought by time upon the value of the endowment. The sum to be annually appropriated from the Croonian Trust is now of considerable magnitude, and let it be hoped that the fruit yielded by its application may equal in usefulness what I am sure it is desired by the College it should do. Should this be attained, the benefits issuing from the bencfac- �