Prizegiving at the Middlesex Hospital

""THE opening of the Winter Session of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School and the distribution of prizes by Princess Alice, took place at the Scala Theatre on October 2, and was a very successful function. The school is growing rapidly in importance and efficiency and seems to have before it a future of ever-increasing uesfulness. There was, thus, a general air of enthusiasm and buoyancy which made the proceedings particularly pleasant. As usual, the first item was a brief address on some new phase of scientific research, and Mr. Somerville Hastings's paper on " Team Work in Nature " illustrated with lantern slides, while distinctly technical, was always lucid and interesting. In the medical profession the value of team work had, he said, been recognised from the earliest times. When an engineer finds out a new process he patents it, so that none but he may use it. When a doctor makes a discovery it is the tradition that he should publish it to the world, so that all his colleagues and their patients may benefit thereby. Mr. Webb-Johnson, the Dean, ihen gave his report on the work of tbe past year. He spoke of the distinction conferred on his alma mater by the election of Sir John Bland-Sutton