APPENDIX.

PLAN and REGULATIONS of the Establishment and Adjudication of Two PRIZE MEDALS for the Encouragement of the Medical Officers of the Royal Navy, and the Improvement of Physic and Surgery in that Department of the Public Service. Founded by Sir GILBERT BLANE, Baronet, First Physician to the King, F.R.SS., Lond., Edin., Gött., Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Russia, of the Institute of France, &c.

1. THE Founder-considering how much it will conduce to the advancement of the Public Service that emulation should be excited among the Medical Officers of the Royal Navy by honorary distinctions for professional merit-has vested the sum of three hundred pounds in the Three per Cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities, in the corporation of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, in trust, with the dividends which shall be from time to time receivable, for the purpose of conferring, once in two years, Two Gold Medals of equal value on two medical officers, surgeons of ships of war in commission, or assistant-surgeons of King's ships in commission not bearing surgeons, who, in the time required, shall have delivered into the proper office, Journals, evincing the most distinguished proofs of skill, diligence, humanity, and learning in the exercise of their professional duties these Journals to be delivered in the form in which they have been kept from day to day, stating the symptoms as they shall have occurred at the time; but without prejudice or hindrance to their making such observations, practical or theoretical, as they may judge proper to annex to them.

2. The first selection to be made by the Medical Commissioners on the 12th of August, 1831, from the Journals delivered between the 12th of July, 1827, and the 12th of July, 1831. All future selections to be made on the 12th of August, at the inter

val of two years from each other, from the Journals delivered in the two preceding years, up to the 12th of July immediately preceding such selection.

3. In the selection of these Journals the Founder proposes that the Medical Commissioners of the Navy shall, out of the whole Journals delivered to them in the course of the intervals above specified, make choice of such as in their judgment possess the highest degree of merit, in number not more than ten or less than five, which shall be transmitted to the Founder during his lifetime, for his selection out of the number so sent of two, or one in case there should not be another of sufficient merit, the authors or author of which, in his judgment, may be most deserving of the prizes. And after his decease the said Journals to be conveyed to the President of the College of Physicans, who, after due examination, is to communicate them to the President of the College of Surgeons, and after proper deliberation the said Presidents are to call to their assistance the Senior Medical Commissioner of the Royal Navy, and jointly with him select from the said Journals one or two, the author or authors of which, in the opinion of the majority, possess the highest merit, and become thereby entitled to the Medal or Medals. The Medal or Medals, when adjudged, are to be put into the hands of the attending Medical Commissioner, to be by him presented to the successful candidate or candidates. All the Journals of the first selection to be returned into the custody of the Medical Commissioners.

4. In case of the impossibility of performing the before-mentioned duties, through the illness or unavoidable absence of the parties described, the duty is to devolve on the next in rank; that is, on the Senior Censor of the College of Physicians, the Vice-President of the College of Surgeons, or the Junior Medical Commissioner.

5. In case it should happen at any of the periods of adjudication that in the opinion of the Founder, or of the two Presidents after his decease, there shall not be found a Journal or Journals of adequate merit to entitle any candidate to the prize, the Medal or Medals shall be withheld until the next period of adjudication, and the unadjudicated Medals are to be conferred on such as may possess sufficient merit over and above those subject to adjudication at that period. But this regulation is so to be construed and limited that no more than four prizes shall be adjudicated at any

one period; and if the unadjudged Medals shall exceed this number, their value in money is to be given to the Supplemental Fund for the Children of Medical Officers.

6. In case at any time the Founder or the two Presidents shall omit to make the adjudication for a longer period than three months, they shall be considered as having forfeited their right, and the ultimate selection shall devolve on the Medical Commissioners, who, in case of difference of opinion, may call in such a referee as they may judge necessary or advisable.

7. The Founder shall provide and deposit with the Royal College of Surgeons the Die engraved for the Medal, from which they will cause the Medals to be struck at the prescribed periods, and to be delivered to the Medical Commissioners to be presented by them to the successful candidates.

8. No successful candidate to be admitted as a competitor a second time.

9. The Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Senior Medical Commissioner, to be considered as guardians of the Fund and its equitable administration.

10. In case of any of those surgeons whose Journals have been given in, should have been paid off previous to adjudication, or should they have been appointed to an hospital, or any other situation on shore except that of Medical Commissioner, such surgeons shall still be deemed eligible candidates for the Medals in case of adequate merit.

11. After a lapse of not less than ten years from the decease of the Founder it shall be competent for the Presidents of the two Royal Colleges and the Medical Commissioners of the Navy to hold an interview for the purpose of consulting whether any and what additions or alterations would be advisable in the preceding plan and regulations, and to adopt them in case of their being unanimous for the adoption: subject, nevertheless, to the approbation of the Lord High Admiral, or the Commissioners for executing the office of the Lord High Admiral.

RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS.

THE Founder, with all deference to the high professional authorities who are to adjudge the Medals, begs to suggest and recommend as follows:

1. That a book be kept in the custody of the Medical Commissioners of the Royal Navy, wherein is to be transcribed the plan and regulations, and to serve also as a record of the periodical adjudications, and wherein not only the names of the successful candidates may be inscribed, but also of all those of the first selection; among whom it cannot be doubted that there will be found tokens of merit which may go without their due reward, from the limited number of Medals, and all of whom will, of course, possess a considerable share of merit above the unselected, and be deserving of consideration.

2. That there be transcribed into this book of record such remarks as may have arisen out of the examinations, deliberations, and discussions of those appointed to adjudge the Medals, and which may prove a source of much valuable information, not only for the Navy, but of the community at large, while it will open a source of liberal and useful intercourse between the members of the different public professional institutions of the empire, provided some degree of publicity should be given to them.

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