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THE HARVEIAN ORATION.
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"The Milroy Lectures in State Medicine and Public Health," and the course comprises not less than three nor more than six lectures. This lectureship has already proved of great service, and is likely to become progressively more and more useful in the future, in proportion as the preventive aspect of the work of the medical profession is becoming increasingly prominent and important.

6. Fitzpatrick Lectures.—This lectureship initiated an entirely new departure, for it deals with a subject which had previously been practically neglected, but which now seems to be coming into considerable prominence. We owe it to the influence of our distinguished Censor, Dr. Norman Moore. Acting on his advice, and desiring to perpetuate the memory of her husband in connection with the College, in 1901 Mrs. Fitzpatrick, widow of Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick, a learned Member of this College, presented to the President and Fellows the munificent sum of £2,000, in trust, to found a Lectureship in "The History of Medicine." The interest is to be paid each year to a Fellow of the College appointed by the President and Censors, who shall deliver in the College two lectures, the precise subject to be announced beforehand. The same Fellow may be appointed two years in succession, but not again until an interval of at least one year has elapsed. The lectures to be printed and published in a separate book. The