TIIE MEDICAL EXAMINER.
PHILADELPHIA, SEPTEMBER, 1850.
SYDENHAM SOCIETY OF LONDON.
In the pages of the Examiner we have drawn the attention of our
readers from time to time to this valuable Association, which for seven
years has been pursuing unobtrusively, but beneficially, the even tenor
of its way. Its officers, constituted of the distinguished members of
the profession, have, in the most disinterested manner, assumed the
office of caterers for their medical brethren, and the Society has every
year issued in a uniform and elegant style, and at a comparatively
trifling rate, books of the highest order of merit. Desirous, however,
of extending their usefulness, the Society in their Report of the seventh
general meeting, makes the following appeal, which we fervently hope
may be responded to by the numerous members.
“In the Fifth Annual Report it was announced that arrangements were
pending for the publication of a British Medical Bibliography, and the
Council have now to announce that they have agreed with Dr. Kennedy,
late of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, to publish his MS. Bibliography. On this
work Dr. Kennedy has been occupied during the greater part of a long
life, and has spared neither expense nor labor to make it, what the
Council believe it will prove to be, a most complete and valuable Bibli-
ography of British Medicine. The Council have been anxious not to
publish any portion of the Bibliography, till they had made such ar-
rangements as would justify the expectation that they might ultimately
carry into effect the whole scheme. Having, however, now arranged
for the preparation of the general Biblography to the end of the six-
teenth century, and for the whole of the British department to the close
of the last century, it is the intention of the Council to issue at least
one volume in the course of the ensuing year. It is deemed highly de-
sirable that the issue of Bibliography should interfere as little as possi-
ble with that of the ordinary works. But in order to accomplish this
object, it will be absolutely necessary to keep up, if not to augment, the
present number of Members ; for, in consequence of the number of
volumes that have been issued for each year’s Subscription, the Council
have been unable to set aside any portion of the funds for the special
purposes of the Bibliography, although, as it was originally intended,
this they have been anxious to do. The Council therefore trust that all
who have benefitted by the prosperity which the Society has
hitherto enjoyed, will feel it incumbent on them to seek every oppor-
tunity of promoting its future success by inducing others to participate
in its advantages.”