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H. A. RYDINGS
We began this review of the China Medico-Chirurgical Society with some account of those who were officers during the first year of its existence. It is therefore appropriate to finish with a look at the office-bearers of the 'Philosophical Society of China”, and to note how many of them had been associated with the former society. The original office-bearers (22) were:
President
Major H. P. Burn
Vice-Presidents Dr. Kennedy
Council
Dr. Balfour
A. Shortrede
J. C. Bowring
General Secretary W. F. Bryan
Treasurer
Curator
Dr. Young
C. T. Watkins
Dr. Harland
Dr. Barton
There are five doctors on this list, of whom three are known to have been members of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, namely Drs. Kennedy, Balfour and Barton. The Dr. Young was probably Peter Young, the Colonial Surgeon, and not J. H. Young, who had been Secretary of the Medico-Chirurgical Society but had resigned. Dr. W. A. Harland, who read a paper on "The Chinese system of human anatomy and physiology" (23) at the meetings in September and October 1847, was later to become the Society's "devoted Secretary" (24), but is not included in the membership list of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, though he may have joined it after the list was compiled. A new set of office-bearers was appointed with the first change of name of the Society (21) and adoption of a constitution on 19th January 1847, with His Excellency Sir John F. Davis, Bart., F.R.S. as President: but that is another story.
NOTES
1 [J. R. Jones] in JHKBRAS, v. 1, 1961, p. 1.
2 There are three copies recorded in libraries in the U.S.A., i.e. the National Library of Medicine at Washington; the Boston Medical Library; and the Library of the New York Academy of Medicine.
3 Trans. China Med. Chir. Soc., v. 1, 1845-46, p. 28.
4 Memoirs of the life and labours of Robert Morrison, comp. by his widow, London, 1839, v. 2, p. 148.
5 Chinese repository, v. 16, 1847, p. 187-9.
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H. A. RYDINGS
We began this review of the China Medico-Chirurgical Society with some account of those who were officers during the first year of its existence. It is therefore appropriate to finish with a look at the office-bearers of the 'Philosophical Society of China”, and to note how many of them had been associated with the former society. The original office-bearers (22) were:
President
Major H: P. Burn
Vice-Presidents Dr. Kennedy
Council
Dr. Balfour
A. Shortrede
J. C. Bowring
General Secretary W. F. Bryan
Treasurer
Curator
Dr. Young
C. T. Watkins
Dr. Harland
Dr. Barton
There are five doctors on this list, of whom three are known to have been members of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, namely Drs. Kennedy, Balfour and Barton. The Dr. Young was probably Peter Young, the Colonial Surgeon, and not J. H. Young, who had been Secretary of the Medico-Chirurgical Society but had resigned. Dr. W. A. Harland, who read a paper on "The Chinese system of human anatomy and physiology" (23) at the meetings in September and October 1847, was later to become the Society's "devoted Secretary" (24), but is not included in the membership list of the Medico- Chirurgical Society, though he may have joined it after the list was compiled. A new set of office-bearers was appointed with the first change of name of the Society (21) and adoption of a constitution on 19th January 1847, with His Excellency Sir John F. Davis, Bart., F.R.S. as President: but that is another story.
NOTES
1 [J. R. Jones] in JHKBRAS, v. 1, 1961, p. 1.
2 There are three copies recorded in libraries in the U.S.A., ie. the National Library of Medicine at Washington; the Boston Medical Library; and the Library of the New York Academy of Medicine.
3 Trans. China Med. Chir. Soc., v. 1, 1845-46, p. 28.
4 Memoirs of the life and labours of Robert Morrison, comp. by his widow, London, 1839, v. 2, p. 148.
5 Chinese repository, v. 16, 1847, p. 187-9.
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