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The Critical Period of British Columbia History, 1866-1871

boundary by the Oregon Treaty of 1846. They were Vancouver Island and British Columbia. Vancouver Island, which dates from the year of the great California gold rush, was a child of the Hudson's Bay Company, merely an adjunct to the fur trading monopoly. Terms of settlement so severe as to discourage immigration were laid down by the Hudson's Bay Company.! The one independent settler, Captain W. Colquohoun Grant, was for a time employed by the company as surveyor. A royal governor, Richard Blanshard, whoserule lasted from March, 1850, to September, i851, was a pathetic figure, a governor without a colony. The real ruler was Chief Factor James Douglas of the Hudson's Bay Company, who after the departure of Blanshard became the de jure as well as de facto governor. He ruled by means of an appointed council chiefly made up of officers and ex-officers of the company. In 1856 a legislative assembly was set up but it had little power. At least five of the seven members had been or actually were in the company's employ. The gold rush to Fraser River in the spring of 1858 led to the establishment of a new colony on the mainland. This was British Columbia, so named by Her Majesty Queen Victoria. James Douglas became governor of the new gold colony but was forced by Downing Street to relinquish all connection with

The Therapeutic Influence of X Rays on Female Pelvic Disease

ArticlesThe Therapeutic Influence of X Rays on Female Pelvic DiseaseAn Introductory Address Delivered before the North London Medical Society, Dec. 13th, 1917John PhillipsJohn PhillipsHon. Physician to Her Majesty Queen Mary, Consulting Obstetric Physician, King's College Hospital, Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics in King's CollegeSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:14 Feb 2014https://doi.org/10.1259/are.1918.0080SectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail About Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 22, Issue 11April 1918Pages: 333-364 Copyright © 1918, The British Institute of Radiology History Published onlineFebruary 14,2014 Metrics Download PDF

Bedford College for Women

THE opening of the new buildings of the Bed ford College for Women on July 4 by her Majesty Queen Mary was an important event in the history of university education.

Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bart., K.C.S.I., F.R.S.

ON Tuesday, May 21, Sir Joseph Fayrer died He was born on December 6, 1824, and he died full of years and full of honours, for he was honorary physician (military ) and physician extraordinary to the King, honorary physician to her late Majesty Queen Vitoria, M.D. and LL>D. of various universities and fellow of many learned societies. Yet all his honours were richly deserved, and he bore them with the unassuming modesty. Many men are acquainted with parts of his work, but very few know the whole. When Huxley died, a wail of grief went up from the scientific world, but many people are unaware that but for Fayrer the course of Huxley's life might have been completely different, and a great part of his scientific work might never have been done. They were fellow students together, Huxley being senior by a year, though Fayrer was actually older by a few months. When Huxley had finished his medical studies he was, as he himself says in the autobiographical sketch prefixed to his essays, wondering what he should do to meet the imperative necessity of earning his own bread, when Fayrer suggested that he should enter the naval medical service. He did so, and after a few months at Haslar he went on. his famous voyage on the Rattlesnake, and thus began his scientific career. The attraction which drew Fayrer and Huxley together and led to their close friendship was the great likeness between them in many respects. It has been said that in every human face a resemblance may be traced to some animal, and this was markedly so both in Huxley and Fayrer. Especially in his later years Huxley's face and head suggested that of a lion,. while Fayrer's large, open forehead and calm expression reminded me of an elephant, and one could hardly look at him without thinking how rightly the Hindoos have chosen an elephant's head for their god of wisdom. Both men were alike in the stern uprightness of their characters, in the extent of their knowledge and the wideness of their interests, in the clearness of their views, the correctness of their decisions, their absolute fearlessness, their prompt and energetic action, their firm determination to carry out what they thought right, in their tenacity of purpose, in a certain impatience of opposition, and in their great success in overcoming it. Associated with these qualities which compelled admiration were an extraordinary kindness and tenderness of heart which gained the affection of all who knew them.

British Food Journal Volume 4 Issue 8 1902

The illness of no Sovereign, with the exception of that of Her late Majesty QUEEN VICTORIA, has ever aroused feelings of sympathy and anxiety so widespread and sincere as those which have been called forth by the onset and development of the dangerous ailment from which His Majesty the KING has now happily recovered.

The Queen's Jubilee Prize Essay of the Royal Botanic Society of London

IN your issue of October 18 appears (p. 594) a review of the essay for which I was awarded the medal of the Royal Botanic Society, in which the writer makes a great point of my omitting all reference to drugs. He does not state, for the information of your readers, that the prize was offered for the best (not necessarily complete) essay on the “Vegetable Substances introduced into Britain for use in the Arts, Manufactures, Food, and Domestic Economy during the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.” It is not necessary that one should be either “a member of the medical profession” or have “a wholesome dread of drugs” to know that drugs used as medicines could not with any fitness be introduced into this essay; indeed, inquiry from the Secretary elicited the fact that they had been purposely excluded.

Imperial Geological Union

NO one interested in geological science could fail to be impressed with the evidence afforded by the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, in its display of natural products, in the conferences connected with it, and in the number of scientific men collected from all parts of the Empire, of the amount of geological work represented by Great Britain and its dependencies, and the commanding position of the Empire with reference to the geology of the world. The same fact was apparent in the importance attached to Colonial and Indian geology and geography at the meeting of the British Association at Birmingham. Influenced by these facts, I was induced to speak somewhat strongly in the address which I had the honour of delivering at Birmingham on the position of Britain and its colonies and the English-speaking world in general with reference to scientific progress. On my return to Canada, and more particularly after the (temporary, as I hope) failure of the project to hold a meeting of the British Association next year in Australia, it seemed desirable to give the matter some definite form; and after correspondence and consultation with friends, I was induced, in February last, to address a letter on the subject to Prof. Stokes, the President of the Royal Society. The reasons for this course were that both Prof. Huxley and his successor in the Presidential chair of the Royal Society had suggested an Imperial Scientific Union, and the subject was understood to be under the consideration of the Council of the Society, which from its central and commanding position has a right to the initiative in any movement of this nature. In this letter geological science is alone directly referred to, as being that with which the writer is more immediately connected and that which in some respects has already the best organization; but without excluding other departments of science. Special reference is also made to Canada, as affording an apt illustration of the extent and value of the geological domain of the Empire. I need scarcely add that the present year, distinguished as it is by many movements in the direction of Imperial Union, in connexion with its being the fiftieth year of the reign of Her Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, seems especially auspicious for such a project. The following are extracts from the letter referred to

XX. Communicated by T. W. Wrighte, M. A. Secretary. From the Papers bequeathed to the Society of Antiquaries of London. By the late John Thorpe, Esq. M. A. and F. S. A.

This “briefe discourse” addressed to her most excellent majesty queen Elizabeth, was written, probably about the year 1582, by that most excellent mathematician of his time, and skilful engineer, “Thomas Digges, Esquire, sonne and “ heyre of Leonard Digges, of Wotton, in the county of Kent, Esquire, and of “ Bridget his wife, daughter to Thomas Wilford, Esquire, which Thomas deceased the 24th day of August, Ann. Dom. 1595,” Stowe's Survey of London, ed. 1720, B. iii. vol. I. p. 71, 72. For a more particular account of the life of this eminent person, see Wood's Athen, and the Biograph. Britannica.