oners were admitted, although at least 25 women, practising
medicine, were then on the English Medical Register, and a protest
against the decision of the Council had been signed by 43 duly qualified
medical women. At previous meetings of the Congress in foreign countries
women were not excluded.

The Prince of Wales, on his arrival, was received by Sir W. Jenner, Sir
William Gull, Sir James Paget, Sir J. Risdon Bennett, and other members
of the Committee. The Honorary Secretary having read the report of the
Executive Committee, the Prince of Wales, who was accompanied by the
Crown Prince of Prussia, the late Emperor "Frederick the Noble," rose
and said:--

"Your Imperial Highness and Gentlemen,--I gladly complied with
the request that I should be patron of the International Medical
Congress of 1881, and among many reasons for so doing was my
conviction that few things can tend more to the welfare of
mankind than that educated men of all nations should from time
to time meet together for the promotion of the branches of
knowledge to which they devote themselves. The intercourse and
the mutual esteem of nations have often been advanced by great
international exhibitions, and I look back with pleasure to
those with which I have been connected; but when conferences are
held among those who in all parts of the world apply themselves
to the study of science, even greater international benefits
may, I think, be confidently anticipated, more especially in the
study of medicine and surgery, for in these the effects of
climate and of national habits must give to the practitioners of
each nation opportunities, not only of acquiring knowledge, but
of imparting knowledge to those of their _confreres_ whom they
meet in Congress.

"I venture to think, gentlemen, that the Executive Committee
have acted wisely in instituting sections for the discussion of
a very wide range of subjects, including not only the sciences
on which medical knowledge is founded, but many of its most
practical applications, and I am very happy to see that so great
scope will be granted for the discussion of important questions
relating to the public health, to the cure of the sick in
hospitals and in the houses of the poor, and to the welfare of
the Army and Navy. The devotion with which many members of the
medical profession readily share the da