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 consider what should be done with this improved rental; and on their recommendation it was resolved by the Comitia in June 1886, that in future the course should consist of not less than four lectures on one or more subjects in Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology, with a view to the prevention, control, and cure of diseases, with an honorarium of one hundred guineas for the Lecturer; and that the remainder of the fund be employed for original investigation by a past or present Croonian Lecturer. This endowment has been the means of encouraging excellent work, and the results brought before the College by the several lecturers have not only been of much interest, but many of them have also been of considerable value from a practical point of view.

4. Bradshaw Lecture.—A long interval elapsed during which the endowment of lectureships entirely ceased, but in 1875 a revival took place in this direction. In that year £1,000 Three-per-cent. Consols was bequeathed by will by the late Mrs. Bradshaw, widow of Dr. W. Wood Bradshaw, M.A., D.C.L. Oxford, a former Member of this College, in trust, to found the Bradshaw Lecture in memory of her husband. It was directed that the lecture should be delivered annually on August 18th, the anniversary of the death of Dr. Bradshaw, on some subject connected with Medicine or Surgery, by some person appointed by the President. In 1891, however, the sanction of the Charity Commissioners