Calendar: 1853-1854 Page 40

38 ANNUAL REPORT 1853 of the College all the Candidates for Scholarships evinced great merit in Divinity before being permitted to compete out of the twenty-two Students of this Department elected Scholars during nine years up to 1850 solely on account of profes- sional merit no less than fourteen carried olf also the Leathes and Warneford Divinity Prizes The Scholars elected since 1850 have given equal proof of great attention to this most important subject but opportunities will yet be afforded to them for competing for these prizes The number of Matriculated Students in attendance remains precisely the same as last year The Occasional Students have slightly increased The total number attending during the last Winter Session is 239 During the past year Mr Robert Coane Roberts Jordan received Gold Medal in Physiology from the University of London at the second Β examination whilst Thomas Bridgewater took honours in Surgery and Medicine and Robert Jordan in Medicine only At the first examination Henry Robert Sylvester graduated in honours in the three branches of Anatomy and Physiology Chemistry and Materia Medica The Annual prize in Botany given by the Society of Apothe- caries was awarded to Maxwell Tylden Masters thus making the tenth King's College Student who in successive years has gained this the only Botanical Prize in London which is open to public competition Mr Frederick Headland has gained the Fothergilian Medal given by the Medical Society of London whilst Mr Praucis Nottidge Macnamara whose appointment to the service of the Honourable East India Company was announced last year has been elected by the Court of Directors Professor of Chemistry in the Medical College of Calcutta The Council cannot advert without an expression of very sincere regret to the loss which this Department has just sus- tained by Dr Todd's resignation of the Chair of Physiology an appointment held by him for period of seventeen years During the vhole of this time Dr Todd has laboured most assiduously to promote the religious and intellectual welfare of his class and whilst he has been distinguished by an un-