The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-05 00:00:00

THE LONDON UNIVERSITY.

On Saturday the distribution of prizes in the medical
department of this University took place, and on the
occasion the hall was filled with the students and their
friends. Lord Brougham, as President of the University,
occupied the chair, and the proceedings opened with the
reading of the annual report by Mr. Liston, Dean of
the Faculty of Medicine. From that document it ap-
peared that the number of medical students who atteaded
classes during the past year was 290, the number of the
preceding year being 292. Their general conduct and
attention was spoken of in the most favourable terms,
and it was stated that several of them who had taken
part in other academical competitions had gained a fair
share of distinction.

At the first examination for the degree of M.B. in the
University of London, gold medals were awarded to Mr.
Thomas Littleton for proficiency in anatomy and phy-
siology; to Mr. Thomas Armstrong Cammack for che-
mistry, and to Mr. Joseph Burgon for Materia Medica;
and both the gold medals annually conferred on success-
ful competitors by the Society of Apothecaries were
gained by students of this college, namely, the medal for
botany by Mr. James Morris, and that for Materia
Medics by Mr. Thos. Park.
The report further stated the retirement of Dr. Taylor
from the professorship of clinical medicine; the appoint.
ment of two assistant physicians and one additional as-
sistant surgeon to the hospital from the alumni of the
college; and the extension of the accommodation afforded
in the hospital by the erection of a new wing to the
building. The report concluded by a reference to the
success of Mr. Benjamin Hobson, M. 8., as a religious
and medical missionary in China, and his efforts to
establish a college at Hong-Kong for the instruction of
Chinese pupils in medicine and the physical sciences.
The following is a list of the prizes awarded, and the
names of the successful competitors:—
CLASS OF MEDICINE.

Gold medal and Ist certificate—Thos. Park of Lincoln.
Ist silver medal and 2d certificate—H. Briggs, Halifax.
2d silver medal and 3d certificate—J. Bailey of London.
CLASS OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY.
Gold medal and Ist certificate—James Morris, London.
Ist silver medal and 2d certificate—Archibald P.
Childs, of Bungay.
2d silver medal and 3d certificate—Daniel Badcock, of
Sheffield.

CLASS OF CHYMISTRY.
Gold medal and Ist certificate—Nathaniel Clement

Wood, of Nurfolk.
Ist silver medal and 2d certificate—George Hewitt
Bailey, of London.
2d silver medal and 3d certificate—W. M. G. Hewett,
of Swindon. _ _ .

--
Essay Prizes.-Ist silver medal—Joseph Lister, of
Upton.
2d silver medals (equal)—J. Russell Reynolds, of
Halstead, and William Payne, of llorselydown.

CLASS OP ANATOMY.
Junior Class.—lst silver medal and Ist certificate—J.
W. Saunders, of Aylsham,
201 silver medal and 2d certificate—W. M. G. Hewett.
Senior Class.—Gold medal and Ist certificate—Wil-
liam Bayldon, of Royston.
Ist silver medal and 2d certificate—James Morris.
2d silver medal and 3d certificate—C. D. R. Symons,
of Devonport.

CLASS OP COMPARATIVE ANATOMY.
Gold medal and Ist certificate—Bholanoth Bose, of
Calcutta.

CLASS OF MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS.
Gold medal and Ist certificate—James Rigby,
Ist silver medal and 2d certificate—William Squire.
2d silver medal and 3d certificate—Thomas Limbery,
of Appledore, Devon.
CLASS OF MIDWIFERY. of Huli.
Gold medal and Ist certificate—Francis Cornelius
Webb, of East Stonehouse Devon.
Ist silver medal and 2d
certificate—William Bayidol'.
2d silver medal and 3d certificate—Henry Briggs.
CLASS OF SURGERY.
Gold medal and Ist certificate—Thomas Park.
Ist silver medal and 2d certificate—Francis C. Webb.
2d silver medal and 3d certificate—C. D. R. Symons.
CLASS OF DENTAL SURGERY.
Silver medal and Ist certificate—William Bayldon.
SUMMER TERM, 1846.
CLASS OF BOTANY.
Gold Aledal and Ist certificate—Bholanoth Bose.cate
Silver medal and 2d certificate—W. D. Wilkes, of Sa-
lisbury.

CLASS OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.
Prize and Ist certificate—Thomas Park.
CLASS OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY.
Gold medal and Ist
.certificate—W
Cromer.
FELLOWES CLINICAL MEDAL.—Gold medal—W. 11.
Ransom.• H. Ransom, of

PRIZE OP 401. Fon GENERAL PROFICIENCY.—W.
Ransom.

Lord Bnouomani, when the distribution of prizes had
been effected, rose and said, that it gave him sincere
pleasure to witness the proceedings of that day, over
which he had had the honour of presiding ; and no small
portion of that pleasure arose from witnessing the great
and just affection shown towards the professors by their
numerous pupils.—(Cheers.) It was also to him a very
great satisfaction to observe the continued prosperity of
that great medical school, great as compared with any
other in this country, and he would say, having seen
some of the greatest on the continent, and among them
the celebrated school at Montpellier, equal to any that
he knew of abroad.---(Cheers.) It gave him the greatest
satisfaction to observe the truly catholic spirit evidenced
so remarkably among them that day. He did not mean
Roman Catholic, because he was as strenuous a Protest-
ant as any man in this country, though he felt great
toleration for his erring Roman Catholic brethren.—
(Laughter.) Not only had members of every religious
denomination won honours, as, for instance, the son of
his friend Mr. Childs of Bungay ; not only were there
among the list members of the Society of Friends, a body
who had very successfully cultivated chymical science ;
not only had members of the Church reaped honours,
but there were some there who were not in the fellow-
ship of Protestant or Roman Catholic of sect, or creed,
and who belonged to no Christian community at all.— '
to bestow
the inestimable blessings of a refined education in letters,
(Cheers.) He meant our brethren in the east, to whom
no less than eight different medals and honours had that
day been awarded.—(Cheers.) Nothing could to him
be more satisfactory than this evidence of the complete
successmu
of
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instruction,dame tontal principle, that we ought to
omimpart learning,
arts, and sciences, on persons of all denominations, whe-
c
ther Jew or Gentile, Churchman, or Dissenter, whether
they were Christians or those who yet wandered in
outer darkness.—(
nictehis fundamental
Cheers.) lle was the more anxious
to state this as the corner-stone on which their struc-
ture rested, because he was living at a time which he
thought till lately was the 19th century and not the mid-
dle ages. He had, however, recently heard things stated
which made him doubt whether they were living in the
year 1847. lie would not give any opinion on the
controversy which had recently spread over the country
and reached the town. Ile would not say whether his
old and excellent friends, Mr. Baines and Dr. Hamilton,
were right, or Lord Lansdowne, who was one of his
oldest friends, but he had seen such things mooted by
certain sects, one trying to exclude or include the other
—(Laughter)—that, as he had mentioned in another
place, he was obliged to look one day into the Alinanaek
to see whether he really was living in 1847, for he
thought he was living in 1837.--(Loud laughter.) It
turned out by the Alinanack, from which bi such mat-
ters there was no appeal—(Laughter)—that lie was
living in the year 1847, and he hoped therefore that the
diffusion of knowledge among the people would end in a
more complete and effectual common education, and that
the same progress would be made in the inferior branches
as was now made in the higher and more exalted
branches of learning.—(Cheers.)
At the conclusion of his Lordship's address the meet-,
ing closed.

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