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 the genial and liberal donor and his valued friend, but may accomplish the object of the giver and lead to future discoveries by which the ravages of tuberculous disease may be con- trolled and abated, if not altogether prevented.

It may interest the College to know that the subject selected for the first competition is "The Means, Prophylactic or Curative, deemed by the Author to have Value in the Control of Tuberculosis, especial regard being had to their Application to Human Tuberculosis."

I should like to pause here to set before you at somewhat greater length the useful, pure, and unselfish life of Dr. Parkes, and to recall to your memory the excellence of his scientific work in connection with the ingestion and elimination of nitrogen in the system, as well as to draw your attention to the benefits which our naval and military services and the general public have received from his labours in the field of hygiene; but I must pass on now, and content myself with thus briefly alluding to the munificent gift of Dr. Hermann Weber and the memory of Edmund Alexander Parkes.¹

Dr. Parkes died of acute general tuberculosis, March 15th, 1876.