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THE Royal College of Surgeons of England celebrates its centenary on July 25–27. The actual month of course in which George III. founded the College by Royal Charter was March, 1800, but in the spring of 1900 it would have been impossible adequately to marshal the forces of English surgery. Sir William MacCormac and Mr. Frederick Treves, to name no others, were, if we remember rightly, still in South Africa. The belated birthday of the College is to be fitly commemorated by a grand degree-giving, at which a number of representative European and American surgeons will receive the newly-created distinction of Hon. F.R.C.S. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales has already been presented with the diploma of Honorary Fellowship, a deputation from the College, having waited on him on July 24. The form of words used in the Royal diploma is the same as that employed in all cases. “Know all men by these presents, that we, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, do hereby admit his Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, an Honorary Fellow of the College.“
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PLARR, V. The Centenary of the Royal College of Surgeons of England . Nature 62, 294–296 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062294c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/062294c0