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 year by Dr. Leonard Hill, whose fame as a physiologist was also originally established at University College. It may be confidently anticipated that this endowment, the objects of which are strictly in accordance with the spirit of Harvey's work, will also prove of great advantage to this College, and to the medical profession generally.

9. Swiney Prize.—Dr. Swiney, at his death in 1844, left by his will the sum of £5,000 to the Society of Arts, as trustees, for the purpose of presenting a prize on every fifth anniversary of the testator's death to the author of the best work on Jurisprudence. The award is made jointly by the Society of Arts and the College of Physicians, and the practice hitherto has been to give the prize alternately for a work in medical and in general jurisprudence. It consists of a silver cup, value £100, and money to the same amount. The Swiney Prize was first awarded in 1849 to Dr. Paris and J. Fonblanque for their work on "Medical Jurisprudence," and its subsequent recipients on the medical side include the well-known names of Swayne Taylor, Guy, Norman Chevers, Meymott Tidy, and Dixon Mann, who is still with us.

10. Baly Medal.—In 1866 Dr. Frederic Daniel Dyster transferred to the College the sum of £400 to provide a gold medal of the value of £20, "in memoriam Gulielmi Baly, M.D." A railway accident brought to a sudden and premature end the successful