No. XII.-continued.

at Netley and Foreign Stations in the Year 1893.

Long. 114° 8' 16" E. Height of Barometer Cistern above Sea, 18 feet.

Long. 114° 9' 16" E. Height of Barometer Cistern above Sea, 911 feet.

APPENDIX No. XIII.

THE PARKES MEMORIAL PRIZE.

Surgeon-General Sir T. LONGMORE, Kt., C.B., President of Committee. Brigade-Surgeon-Lieut.-Colonel J. LANE-NOTTER, M.A., M.D., Treasurer. Surgeon-Captain R. H. FIRTH, F.R.C.S., Secretary.

Prize Essay Gold Medallists.

1883. Surgeon R. J. POLDEN, Indian Medical Service.

1886. Surgeon ANDREW DUNCAN, M.D., Indian Medical Service.

1889. Surgeon R. H. FIRTH, F.R.C.S., Medical Staff.

1892. Surgeon-Captain R. H. FIRTH, F.R.C.S., Army Medical Staff.

The following is the subject for the next prize :

"THE ETIOLOGY, PREVALENCE, AND PREVENTION OF DIPHTHERIA."

The Prize is Seventy-five Guineas in Money and a Bronze Medal, and is awarded Triennially.

The Competition is open to all Medical Officers of the Army, Navy, and Indian Services of Executive Rank on full pay, with the exception of the Assistant Professors of the Army Medical School during their term of Office. Essays to be sent to the Secretary of the "Parkes Memorial Fund," Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, on or before the 31st day of December 1897. Each Essay to have a Motto, and to be accompanied with a sealed envelope bearing the same Motto and containing the name of the Competitor.

APPENDIX No. XIV.

THE ALEXANDER MEMORIAL FUND.

TRUSTEES.

Surgeon-Major-General Sir W. A. MACKINNON, K.C.B., Q.H.S., DirectorGeneral.

Surgeon-Major-General J. Jameson, M.D.

Deputy-Surgeon-General W. G. Don, M.D.

COMMITTEE.

Surgeon-Major-General Sir W. A. MACKINNON, K.C.B., Q.H.S., Director-
General, President.

Sir T. CRAWFORD, K.C.B., M.D., Q.H.S., late Director-General.
Deputy Surgeon-General J. A. Bosтock, C.B., Q.H.S.
Brigade-Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel A. F. S. CLARKE, M.D.
Surgeon-General J. IRVINE, M.D., Q.H.P.

Brigade-Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel W. JOHNSTON, M.D.
Deputy-Surgeon-General W. G. DON, M.D.

Surgeon-Major W. G. A. BEDFORD, M.B., Honorary Secretary.

PRIZE ESSAY GOLD MEDALLISTS.

1870. Assistant Surgeon A. B. R. MYERS, Coldstream Guards.
1873. Surgeon F. H. WELCH, Medical Department.
1876. Surgeon-Major J. H. PORTER, Medical Department.
1879. Surgeon JOHN MARTIN, Medical Department.
1882. Surgeon-Major F. H. WELCH, Medical Department.
1885. Surgeon JOHN MARTIN, Medical Staff.

1888. Surgeon ROBERT HAMMILL FIRTH, Medical Staff.
1891. Surgeon ROBERT HAMMILL FIRTH, Medical Staff.
1894. Surgeon-Captain C. BIRT, Army Medical Staff.

At a meeting of the Committee held at 18, Victoria Street, S. W., on 26th April 1894, the prize of 501. and Gold Medal of the value of 107. was awarded to Surgeon-Captain C. Birt, Army Medical Staff, for the best Essay on "The Treatment of Wounds and Injuries of the Abdominal Viscera, as likely to be met with in Military Practice."

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The essays of the unsuccessful competitors will be returned on application to the Honorary Secretary before 31st December 1896. Those of the unsuccessful competitors on the former occasion have, in accordance with the rules, been destroyed.

The subject for the next competition is " Micro-organisms as Factors in "the Production of Phthisis; the Influence of Military Service upon the Disease, and Suggestions for its Prevention in the Army."

Essays must reach the President of the Committee on or before 31st December 1896.

Essays are to be legibly written, superscribed with a brief motto, and accompanied by a sealed envelope similarly superscribed, containing the name and address of the author.

No essay shall exceed in length fifty pages of ordinary printed octavo, which may be estimated as amounting to 20,000 words. This limit is exclusive of tables which may be added in the form of appendices.

The competition is limited to executive officers of the Army Medical Staff on full pay; but Professors and Assistant Professors at Netley are not allowed to compete while so employed.

By order of the Committee,

W. G. A. BEDFORD, Surgeon-Major, Hon. Sec.