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Staples, W. F. Stevenson, E. D. Tomlinson, W. W. Tomlin-son, W. J. Wilson, T. Wright and T. W. Wright.

Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonels F. E. Barrow, J. M. Beamish,D. B. Brown. A. L. Browne, W. C. Grant, G. D. N. Leake,J. W. O. M. Martin, W. H. McNamara and C. F. Pollock.

Surgeon-Majors W. G. Bedford, J. T. Cavey, W. A. Carte,J. J. Crean, P. M. Ellis, J. J. Falvey, T. J. Gallwey, J. J.Green, H. Grier, J. P. Hunt, G. A. Hughes, R. Jennings, J. J.Lamprey, T. Ligertwood, N. McCreery, T. W. Patterson,D.S.O., W. S. Pratt, E. R. Power, H. D. Rowan, H. Saunders ’’

and W. E. Webb. ’

Surgeon-Captains S. G. Allen, W. Babtie, A. L. H. Dixon, IH. P. Elkington, J. M’Laughlin, S. C. Philson, H. I. Power, IW. P. Squire and E. O. Wright. IThe following guests were present : Sir Joseph Fayrer,

K.C.S.I., Mr. J. N. Dick, C.B. (Director-General, RoyalNavy), Mr. V. Holt, Dr. Dawson Williams, and Mr. ThomasWakley, jun.

Sir Andrew Clark (President of the Royal College of

Physicians) and Mr. T. Bryant (President of the RoyalCollege of Surgeons) were unavoidably prevented from

attending.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OFENGLAND.

AT an ordinary meeting of the Council of the College heldon Thursday, the 8th inst, Mr. THOMAs BRYANT, President,in the chair, the minutes of the last ordinary meeting ofthe Council were read and confLmed.The death of Mr. Marcus Beck, Member of the Council

and Member of the Court of Examiners in Surgery, wasreported by the Secretary and a vote of condolence with thefamily unanimously passed.A report from the Examiners in Physiology for the Fellow-

ship of the College suggesting certain alterations in the exa-mination, including the institution of a more practical exami-nation, was read and referred to the Nomination Committeefor consideration.The following new appointments were made : Mr. W. H. A.

Jacobson as an Examiner in Anatomy for the Fellowship ;Dr. Montagu Handfield-Jone3 as an Examiner in Midwifery forthe Conjoint Examination. Only one Examiner in Physiologywas appointed.The vacancy on the Board of Examiners in Surgery, as well

as the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. S. J. Hutchin-son as a member of the Board of Examiners in Dental Surgery,will be filled at the Quarterly Council in July.The Secretary reported that he had received a letter from

the clerk to the Royal Commission on Vaccination statingthat the resolution of the Council respecting vaccination willbe iaid before the Commission at its next sitting.The thanks of the Council were given to the President of

the College for his report on the proceedings of the GeneralMedical Council and for his services thereon as the represen-tative of the Council.

In accordance with a request from the Royal College ofPhysicians, a committee, consisting of Sir ’YilliamMacCormac,Mr. Howse, Mr. Langton and Mr. Pick, was appointed toconfer with a committee appointed by them of equal number(Sir Dyce Duckworth, Dr. Church, Dr. Dickinson and Dr.

ICheadle) on the whole subject of fees to be paid for the Iseveral qualifications granted by the respective Colleges andto take into consideration the expenditure incurred by therespective Colleges at the Examination Hall.A motion brought forward by Mr. Banks suggesting

changes in the regulations of the Conjoint Board with respectto systematic practical instruction in medicine, surgery andmidwifery was referred to the October meeting of theCouncil.The next meeting of the Council will be held on July 7th.

Mr. A. T. Norton (Member 1862, Fellow 1867) proposes tostand at the election of Members of the Council in July.The various candidates are, therefore, Messrs Macnamara(Fellow, 1875) and Pemberton (Fellow. 1878) (seeking re-elec-tion), and Messrs. Norton (Fellow, 1867), Anderson (Fellow,1869), Davies Colley (Fellow, 1870), Bloxam (Fellow, 1871),Page (Fellow, 1871), Morris (Fellow, 1873), McCarthy(Fellow, 1873), W. H. Bennett (Fellow, 1877), and MayoRobson (Fellow, 1879).

THE ROYAL BRITISH NURSES’ASSOCIATION.

THE Royal Charter which Her Majesty the Queen hasgranted to the Royal British Nurses’ Association and ofwhich we have received a copy makes it a body cor-porate with a common seal, with a "capacity to sue

and be sued in their corporate name, and for the purposes ofthe said corporation to take, purchase and hold any personalproperty, and also, notwithstanding the Statutes of Mort-

main, any messuage, land and hereditaments, provided thatthe yearly value of such messuages, land and hereditamentsshall not in the whole exceed .E2000, the yearly value of suchmessuages, land and hereditaments being for that purposetaken to be the yearly value thereof at the times they arerespectively acquired by the corporation ; with power to sell,grant and demise mortgage or exchange and dispose of thesaid property, messuages, lands and hereditaments, or anypart thereof ; provided that the corporation shall apply itsprofits, if any, or income solely in promoting its objects andfor no other purpose."The purposes of the Corporation are the following : 1. The

founding and maintenance of schemes for the benefit ofnurses in the practice of their profession and in times ofadversity, sickness and old age. 2. The maintenance of anoffice or offices for supplying information to persons seekingfor nurses and to persons seeking for employment as nurses.3. The maintenance and publication of a list of persons whomay have applied to the corporation to have their namesentered therein as nurses, and whom the corporation maythink fit to enter therein from time to time, coupled with suchinformation about each person so entered as to the corpora-tion may from time to time seem desirable. 4. The promo-tion of conferences, public meetings and lectures in con-nexion with the general work of the corporation. 5. Thedoing anything incidental or conducive to carrying into effectthe foregoing purposes.The corporation have been endowed with powers of affilia-

tion and also power to erect such buildings as may be deemedfitting for the purposes of the association.As to the President and honorary officers, on the resigna-

tion or death of the President or of any honorary officer, andas occasion may arise, the vacancies shall be filled up by theGeneral Council, over which the President shall preside.

In reference to the qualification of members of the associa-tion, the corporation may by by-law regulate the qualifica-tions of candidates for election, but no such by-law shallcome into force until approved by the Lords of the PrivyCouncil.The General Council shall be the governing body, with

whom the ultimate decision on any matter affecting thecorporation shall rest-such as expulsion or suspension ofmembers.The General Council shall annually elect to be members of

an executive committee such number of members of the

corporation as may be prescribed by the by-laws for thetime being in force.

CHOLERA.

THE most important news which we have to chronicle thisweek in regard to the progress of epidemic cholera is con-nected with the serious outbreak of that disease at Mecca,where the numbers of pilgrims this season are expected toexceed those of any previous year, and with its pre-valence in many places in Central and Southern France.Several cases have occurred at Ximes, Montpellier, Cette,Narbonne, Besseges, Frontignan and other places. The totaldeaths from cholera that have occurred at Alais up to

June 12th amount to seventy and the disease has not appa-rently yet disappeared. A case of imported cholera is reportedat Lyons. The mortality amongst the pilgrims at Mecca isstated to amount to sixty or seventy a day. The total numberof pilgrims is double what it was last year. As many as

40, 000 have passed through Suez and the same number willprobably arrive at Mecca from Eastern countries and by over-land caravans. The Egyptian Government is stated to be taking