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Mr. Justice Bailhache by counsel on behalf of Mr. H.Bazett for an interim injunction against the LondonInsurance Committee to prevent them from actingon the resolution carried at their last meeting,and from disposing of any part of the balance leftin the Panel Fund for 1913 until the action broughtby Mr. Bazett against the committee shall havebeen heard and decided. A summons for an injunc-tion was granted to Mr. Justice Bailhache, returnableto-day (Friday, July 31st). Mr. Bazett’s action is fora mandamus to compel the committee to

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bute " the unallotted persons, as required by theActs and Regulations, and for damages for breachof their agreements with him through their failureand definite refusal to do this for 1913.

Professor J. C. Bose, of Calcutta, will give alecture before the Royal Society of Medicine, onOct. 30th, on the Modification of Respo.nse inPlants under Action of Drugs. Professor Bose isexpected to illustrate his lecture by the demonstra-tion of experiments upon sensitive plants.

EPSOM COLLEGE.

Lord Rosebery attended the celebration of Founder’s Dayat Epsom College on July 25th, that being the lasttime on which the present headmaster, the Rev. T. N. H.Smith-Pearse, would preside after his 25 years’ service.

Amongst those on the platform were Sir Henry Morris

(treasurer), Sir William S. Church (chairman of the Council),Sir John F. H. Broadbent, Mr. Stanley Boyd, Dr. CharlesCaldecott, Dr. F. de Havilland Hall, Dr. Guthrie Rankin,Dr. Septimus P. Sunderland, Dr. Frederick Taylor, Dr. W.Essex Wynter, and members of the teaching staff.The Headmaster briefly referred in his address to the

progress which had been made by the College since his

appointment, and touched upon the increase in the numberof boys, the honours won in open competition, and thenumerous extensions and improvements in the Collegebuildings. He expressed his appreciation of the supportwhich he had always received from the Council of the

College, as well as from the staff and other officials at theCollege, and referred to the deep debt of gratitude whichwas owing to his wife.Amongst the honours which have been gained direct from

the school since last Founder’s Day are a senior scholarshipof 60 at Clare College, Cambridge, by A. R. Wood ; aclassical exhibition at Wadham College, Oxford, by L. V.Ardagh; an open scholarship at St. Mary’s Hospital byG. V. Davies; and the Maxwell scholarship at FaradayHoue, London, by C. H. P. Ewbank. At the recentmatriculation examination of the University of London 18boys out of 23 had passed, six of them being in the firstdivision. Amongst honours gained by former pupils may bementioned a first class in classical moderations, also an

honorary scholarship at Hertford College, Oxford, by H. W.Hodges ; a first class in the natural science tripos,also a foundation scholarship at St. John’s College,Cambridge, by G. M. Kendall ; a second class in finalLiterse Humaniores, Oxford, by C. A. Mallam ; the Bracken-bury scholarship for medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospitalby F. G. A. Smyth ; and an open scl olirship in arts at St.Bartholomew’s Hospital by J. W. S. Dick.Lord ROSEBERY having given away the chief prizes

addressed the boys on the Formation of Character, butbefore doing so he observed that never, or hardly ever, hadhe seen the political horizon both in Great Britain and Europeso charged with clouds, pregnant with thunder, as it wasthat day. He stated that any boy who found after leavingschool that he had taken from it no serious result of his studieswould decide that he had made a mighty bad bargain of histime, and would find good cause to have remorse for his life.Having defined character, he said that from the very moment wehad consciolsness the world was constantly carving and chisel-ling at our characters. The years spent in school were far moreimportant in the formation of character than all the years

spent afterwards. The school moments decided whether

they were going to be men in the highest sense of the wordor whether they were going to pass through life as atoms.There was only one way by which the character of a man atits best showed itself, and that was by his manners. Of

course this was not an infallible way, as he had known manyexcellent people who from shyness had the most execrablemanners, and he had also known scoundrels with the mostcharming and fascinating manners used by them for muchthe same reason as the web was used by the spider. Butthose were not the manners he referred to ; he meant thosesimple manly manners which were the index of a

straightforward character. They should make theirmanners worthy of their character, and their characterworthy of their manners : the two processes went hand-in-hand. He did not know of any profession in whichmanners were of so much importance as in the noble

profession of medicine. Those who had been attended by adoctor must have realised the difference between the one whocame in with a gloomy and austere expression, with bills ofmortality condensed in his countenance, enough to take theheart out of the most courageous patient, and the doctorwho instinctively seemed to spread a sunny atmospherethrough the room the moment he opened the door, givingthe patient a feeling of hope and encouragement. If thefirst doctor was the best in the world and the second wasonly third rate, he would a thousand times rather have thethird-rate doctor with his genial manners, except perhapsfor an occasional consultation.

Sir HENRY MORRIS proposed a cordial vote of thanks toLord Rosebery, which was seconded by Sir WILLIAM CHURCHand carried by acclamation, cheers being called for himby the senior prefect.

ROYAL COMMISSION ON VENEREALDISEASES.

Sir John Collie at the forty-eighth meeting of the Com-mission gave the results of some observations he had recentlymade in connexion with 2176 men referred to him formedical report. The 2176 men were divided into threeclasses : (1) 1119 whom accident or illness had overtaken ;(2) 557 apparently healthy, but required to pass medicalexamination before entering employment; (3) 500 of thesame class as the second division, but who also submittedthemselves to the Wassermann test. Of all three divisions106 were found to be suffering from venereal disease. Inthe first two divisions, in connexion with which clinicalevidence was relied upon, 60, or 3-8 per cent., were

found to be infected ; in the third class, where the Wasser-mann test was applied, 46, or 9 2 per cent., were shown tohave had syphilis. The 500 cases of those apparently in perfecthealth (as evidenced by a thorough physical examination)were taken consecutively as they presented themselves forexamination, and no selection was made except that working-class people over 21 years of age only were chosen. 103 ofthe 500 had served in the army or navy, and of these 24, or18’9 per cent., gave a positive Wassermann reaction ; thepercentage of positive reactions in the remainder of the 500was only 6. Sir John Collie stated that the figures probably didnot represent the full extent of the existence of the disease,for the men examined were of a somewhat superior artisanclass. An interesting feature of the investigation was thefact that the Wassermann test showed a positive reaction inas many as 12, 16, and 19 years, and in one case as late as29 years after infection, and long after all recollection of theinfection had disappeared.

Mr. Frederick J. McCann, surgeon to the Samaritan FreeHospital for Women, said that it was of the utmost import-ance that syphilis and gonorrhoea should be regarded as

common female ailments, for which the same facilities fortreatment should be available as for other female ailmentswithout any special stigma being attached to them. If

proper facilities for in-patient and out-patient treatmentwere provided the special aspects of these diseases would to-a large extent disappear. Systematic instruction in the earlylocal signs of syphilis and the signs and symptoms of gonor-rhoea was much required ; this instruction should be given atthe special hospitals for women and in the gynaecologicaldepartments of the general hospitals. It was essential that