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THURSDAY (1st).—ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON (PallMall East).-5 P.M. Milroy Lecture :-Dr. W. H. Hamer: EpidemicDisease in England-the Evidence of Variability and of Persistencyof Type.

MEDICAL GRADUATES’ COLLEGE AND POLYCLINIC (22, Chenies-street,W.C.).-4 P.M. Mr. Hutchinson : Clinique. (Surgical.) 5.15 P.M.Lecture:-Prof. C. A. Morton (Bristol): Some Cases in which Collec-tions of Stones formed in the Prostatic Urethra.

POST-GRADUATE COLLEGE (West London Hospital, Hammersmith-road, W.).-5 P.M. Mr. Baldwin : Practical Surgery.

CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL.-4 P.M. Dr. Bosanquet: Demonstrationof Medical Cases. (Post Graduate Course.)

SAMARITAN FREE HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN (Marylebone-road, N.W.).-3 P.M. Lecture :-Dr. Roberts : Cases from the Wards.

ST. JOHN’S HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE SKIN (Leicester-square,W.C.).—6 P.M. Dr. M. Dockrell: Syphilis as it modifies otherEruptions of the Skin, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment.(Chesterfield Lecture.)

MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THECHEST (7, Fitzroy-square, W.).-5 P.M. Lecture :-Dr. T. D. Lister:Specific Diagnosis and Treatment of Phthisis. (Post-GraduateCourse.)

HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN (Gt. Ormond-street, W.C.).-4 P.M.Lecture :-Mr. Steward : The Surgical Treatment of SpasticParaplegia.

ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN (Albemarle-street, W.).-5 P.M. Mr. F. Darwin: The Physiology of Plants. (Lecture I.).

FRIDAY (2nd).—ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.-5 P.M Hunterian Lecture :-Prof. A. H. Cheatle : Some Points inthe Surgical Anatomy of the Temporal Bone from Birth to AdultLife.

MEDICAL GRADUATES’ COLLEGE AND POLYCLINIC (22, Chenies-street,W.C.).-4 P.M. Dr. H. Tilley: Clinique. (Throat.)

POST-GRADUATE COLLEGE (West London Hospital, Hammersmith-road, W.).-5 P.M. Dr. R. J. Reece : Food and Disease.

NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR THE PARALYSED AND EPILEPTIC (Queen-square, Bloomsbury, W.C.).-3.30 P.M. Clinical Lecture :-Dr.R. Russell: Cerebral Tumours.

ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN (Albemarle-street, W.).-9 P.M. Dr. R. Caton : Hippocrates and the Newly DiscoveredHealth Tempe at Cos.

SATURDAY (3rd).—ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN (Albe-marle-street, W.).-3 P.M- Prof. J. J. Thomson: The CorpuscularTheory of Matter. (Lecture I.)

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