ABSTRACT
Professor Calderwood, LL.D., presided at the distribution of prizes and certificates of merit at the School ·of Medicine, in Surgeon Square, on Friday, March 21st. There was a very large attendance of friends of the school and of the students, including Dr. and Mrs. Peel Ritchie, Rev. J. and Mrs. Robertson, Re~. A. Webster, Rev. C. and Mrs. Black, Dr. Moorhead, Dr. Bruce, Mr. and Mrs. Whaley Nutt, Miss Stodart, Bailie and .Mrs. Steel, Dr. Garland, Miss Perry, Dr. Stockman, the large lecture theatre being filled to the doo1-s. Letters of apology were announced from Sir William and Lady Muir, Professor Cbarteris, Dr. Cathcart and Dr. Milne .Murray. The Chairman having called upon the lecturers to give the results of the session, Dr. James, lecturer on practice of medicine, awarded his prize to Margaret Pearse, with 96.5 per cent., and remarked that the quality of his class was best shown by the fact that everyone of them had obtained over 7 5 per cent. of the available marks-:-a result which, he thought, was probably not equalled in any other class in the extra-mural school. Dr. Noel Paton, lecturer on physiology, divided his class into two sections. In the senior division be awarded the medal to Jessie M'Gregor, with 95.5 per cent. of the available marks, and remarked that he had great difficulty in deciding between her .and the next candidate, Margaret Todd, who bad obtained 94.5 per cent. He said that in his large experience of examinations he had rarely seen such papers .as those of these two ladies, who had in fact beaten his male class. In the junior division· the medal was gained by Doris Gumprecht-nine other ladies were .also in honours. Dr. Hughes, lecturer in anatomy, said that the work done in his class was greatly above the average, and that he had rarely seen minutite taken up as they had been during the. present sessio~ .. Every member of his class (twenty m _all) had ~b~e~ .an honours certificate. 'l'he medal m the semor division of his practical class was won by Margaret Todd, with .97.5 per cent.; and in the junior division, by Doris Gumprecht, with 88.5 per cent. In hia systematic.
