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1 38 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT The Society consists of Honorary Corresponding and Ordi- nary Members with Office-bearers The Oilice-bearers are all elected by the Society one of 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- duping 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 member3 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 weckK meeting Applications for membership are to be addressed to the Secretaries of the Medical Society of King's College London by whom they ill be announced at the next ordinary meeting Members are elected by ballot after having been proposed and seconded There is prize of the value of five pounds annually pre- sented to that member who 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 for the best essay on subject to be chosen by the Dean of the Medical Depart- ment 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