Calendar: 1850-1851 Page 115

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT Ill pital whose name has not transpired has headed new subscription list with the munificent donation of 000 attaching to it certain conditions which are happily in the course of fulfilment sum of 25 000 being the half of 50 000 deemed necessary for the Building and permanent Endowment of new Hospital is already subscribed to which sum considerable addition is confidently anticipated from the approaching Festival and the zealous exertions of its long list of more than 250 patrons The Building and Endowment Committee have already taken the necessary steps for com- pleting the purchase of the existing Hospital and of such pro- perty as they deem necessary for the enlargement of the site and they have made much progress with other preliminary arrangements We can now therefore look forward to the speedy realization of the object which we have so long had at heart-the possession of an Hospital adequate to the demands made upon it as charity on the one hand and as an essential complement of the Medical School of this College on the other-an Hospital worthy of the high standing of the College and the flourishing state of its Medical School As member of the several Committees appointed to carry out this great design can assure the Council that no efforts will be spared to bring it to an early and successful issue The combined exertions of some most influential members of the Council of the Rev the Principal of the College of the Chairman Deputy Chairman and members of the Hospital Committee of Management with the willing co-operation of the friends of the College and Hospital and of the public at large cannot fail of being crowned with success should be wanting to myself and to my Colleagues if were to lose this opportunity of acknow- lodging the invaluable services rendered to this good cause by all the parties to whom have just alluded and if failed to associate with them the esteemed Secretary of this College to whom we are under the greatest obligations It would be equally ungrateful to the Professors of other Departments of the College and the Masters of the School to omit the acknowledgment due to them for the very kind and liberal