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94 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT the Honorary Secretaries the Treasurer and three members of the Council being ordinary Members An ordinary meeting of the Society is held one evening in the week during the sessions in the Medical Library of the College At each weekly meeting paper is read on some medical or auxiliary scientific subject and discussion on it follows Communications from Corresponding Members are read and discussed Each member has the privilege of intro- ducing two friends at every ordinary meeting and the author of the paper of the evening an unlimited number Papers or essays are solicited from all the members of the Society those intending to read papers or essays are requested to send in notice of the subject of their papers to the Honorary Secretaries who will set them down with the name of the author of each in book in the order in which they receive them and they will in that order be read one at each weekly meeting Applications for membership are to be addressed to the Secretaries of the Medical Society of King's College by whom they will be announced at the next ordinary meeting Mem- bers are elected by ballot after having been proposed ami seconded There is prize of the value of five pounds annually pre- sented to that member λυΙιο has read the best essay during the session There is an Honorary Certificate annually presented to the member who has most distinguished himself in discussion during the session The Society also annually gives prize of five pounds for the best essay on subject to be chosen by the Dean of the Medical Department of King's College London These prizes are awarded at the close of the Winter Session the last by two of the Medical professors of King's College London selected by the Council of the Society the two former by the judgment of the members taken by ballot at the annual general meeting Neither of these prizes is awarded to any member who has previously obtained the same prize or who has completed his fourth year of study at any