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In the twenty-nine years that have inter- vened between the time of the organization of the society and the present day, Malcolm McLeod, perhaps the greatest jurist this Island has produced, John Longworth, the able, courteous gentleman, Fredrick Brecken, the brilliant orator, and T. Heath Haviland, the intrepid fighter of the days gone by, are all gone.

There survive Sir Louis Davies of the supreme court bench of Canada, occupying the highest judicial position to which an Islander has attained; Honorable Edward Jarvis Hodgson, now master of the rolls and judge of the supreme court of this prov- ince, and Honorable. Francis L. Hazard, at present a member of the executive of this province. Mr. Hazard is the only one of the seven now remaining at the bar. He has held his original office continuously to the present time and has been the “permanent factor” of the society whose success in no small measure has been due to his untiring energy.

The law library is now furnished with upwards of two thousand five hundred vol- umes which cost the society over eight thou- sand dollars.

The present ofi‘icers of the society are: President, D. C. McLeod, K. C.; vice- president, John A. Mathieson, K. C.; secre- tary-treasurer, F. L. Hazard, K. C. Ex- ecutive committee: W. E. Bently, W. A. Weeks, Arthur Peters, K. C., W. A. 'O. Morson, K. C. Examing students for ad-

PAST AND PRESENT OF

mission to the bar: W. E. Bentley, J. A. Mathieson, C. R. Smallwood, attorney gen-

eral ex ofiicio. Examiners of students to study law: D. C. McLeod, W. A. Weeks,

C. R. Smallwood.

From the establishment of the court in I770 to 1830 no roll of barristers and attorneys appears to have kept and the names are only to be found scattered through the records.

At the Trinity term, 1830, a parchment roll was opened and signed by all the at- torneys then in practice—nine in number. Since that time all attorneys admitted have been required as their first professional act to “Sign the roll” which has thus become a complete record from its opening to the present date. Thecompleted rollwill be found in the appendix hereto. The opening of the roll brings down this sketch to a time suf- ficiently modem to render further personal reference to members of the 'bench and bar unnecessary. An exception is made in the case of Sir Robert Hodgson, who saw the nineteen century come in and whose activities were engaged for over half that century in every department of the legal field.

Memory may be strained in some cases to cover the intervening period of seventy- six years since the roll was opened but some halting place must be found and it is best that it should be within the zone of safety.

Further developement of the subject must wait an opportunity.

MEDICAL HISTORY.

BY R. MAONEILL, M. D., P. E. I. EDITOR, M. M. J.

The history of medicine in any country is but the history of men who practice it. In the early history of medicine knowledge

was very crude and varied opinions were held about the profession. Seward defined a doctor to be a man whom we hire for the