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15 medical defartment of Lectures are provided with large number of cases of Mid- wifery The patients are attended at their own houses in the neighbourhood of the Hospital under the superintendence of the Physician Accoucheur and Physician's Assistant Section XVI the medical society of king's college london The object of this Society is the cultivation of Medicine and the auxiliary sciences by the propagation of spirit of original observation and research and of feeling of friendship and cooperation among those engaged in the pursuit of those sciences The Society consists of Honorary Corresponding and Ordi- nary Members with Office-bearers The Office-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 memoer 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 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 111 book in the order in winch the 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 London