American College of Surgeons - Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Presentation, of Great Mace ii Charles C. Choyce, C.M.G., C.B.E. Sir Kennedy Dalziel R. Davies-Colley, C.M.G. T. P. Dunhill, C.M.G. J. M. Elder, C.M.G. Sir Crisp English, K.C.M.G. H. A. Fairbank, D.S.O. C. H. S. Frankau, C.B.E., D.S.O. Forbes Eraser, C.B.E. Sir Peter Freyer, K.C.B. A. Fullerton, C.B., C.M.G. George Cask, C.M.G., D.S.O. Sir Henry Gray, K.B.E., C.B. Sir Robert Jones, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.M. (U.S.A.) R. E. Kelly, C.B. Sir Arbuthnot Lane, Bart., C.B. Sir William Lister, K.C.M.G. V. Warren Low, C.B. Sir George Makins, G.C.M.G., C.B. Sir Arthur Mayo-Robson, K.B.E., C.B., C.V.O. A. B. Mitchell, O.B.E. Sir Berkeley Moynihan, K.C.M.G., C.B. Sir Thomas Myles, C.B. T. H. Openshaw, C.B., C.M.G. Colonel A. Pilcher, C.B., D.S.O. Owen Richards, C.M.G., D.S.O. Sir Hugh Rigby, K.C.V.O. Percy Sargent, C.B., D.S.O. James Sherren, C.B.E. Thomas Sinclair, C.B. Maynard Smith, C.B. Sir Harold Stiles, K.B.E. James Swain, C.B., C.B.E. Sir Charters Symonds, K.B.E., C.B. Sir WiUiam Taylor, K.B.E. Sir John Lynn-Thomas, K.B.E., C.B. Alexis Thomson, C.M.G.

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lo American College of Surgeons The lower portion of the Head is decorated with a symboUc band of water indicating the ocean which both unites and separates America and the Mother Country. The latter is symbolized by the British Lion Brackets of highly chiselled work which support the head and terminate the upper part of the staff. The talons of the lion ' s feet grip the hammered decoration of the upper knop, which consists of a design of American and Canadian Maple seed-pods and heart-shaped spaces. This hammered work is protected by boldly projecting, solid, jewel-like bosses of chiselled work. The Staff is decorated with a free design of the national floral emblems of the United Kingdom — the Rose, the Thistle, the Shamrock, and the Leek. Intertwined among these are a number of ribbon scrolls, each one of which bears the name of one of the donors. The Foot bears, as decoration, the root form from which the above spring and a series of six small shields which may be used for possible future arms of inscriptions. The extreme bottom knop is fluted with leaves of Isatlis tinctoria. The various parts are held together, in the traditional manner, by a rod of English Oak cut from a tree grown at Wytham, Berks. The extreme length is 3 feet iiy inches, and the weight of silver is 140 ounces troy. Consulting Surgeons of the British Armies Who Gave the Great Mace to the American College of Surgeons Sir Charles A. Ballance, K.C.M.G., C.B., M.V.O. Sir Hamilton Ballance, K.B.E., O.B. Sir Gilbert Barling, Bart, C.B. Seymour Barling, C.M.G. Sir Anthony Bowlby, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., D.S.M. . (U. S. A.) Dr. Hubert A. Bruce Frederic Burghard, C.B. H. Burrows, C.B.E. A. Carless, C.B.E. Sir A. Chance, C.B.E.

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12 American College of Surgeons Sir WiUiam Thorburn, K.B.E., C.B. A. H. Tubby, C.B., C.M.G. H. Wade, C.M.G., D.S.O. Sir Cuthbert Wallace, K.C.M.G., C.B. Sir Charles Gordon Watson, K.B.E., C.M.G. A. Webb- Johnson, C.B.E., D.S.O. Sir W. de C. Wheeler Presentation and Acceptance of the Great Mace The ceremony of presenting the Great Mace to the American College of Surgeons was an occasion of deep interest to the Fellows who were in attendance at the initial meeting of the tenth annual session of the Clinical Congress, held in Montreal. The Presentation Committee consisted of Sir Berkeley Moyni- han, K.C.M.G., C.B., of Leeds, Sir William Taylor, K.B.E., of Dublin, and Dr. Albert Carless, C.B.E., of London. In making the presentation. Sir Berkeley Moynihan, Chairman of the Com- mittee, said: Three centuries ago, on this very day, a little sailing vessel, leaving England far behind her, was struggling against adverse winds and heavy seas towards America. On board were one hundred pilgrims fleeing from civil and religious tyranny to seek sanctuary and freedom in a new land. No voyage in history has been so fateful. Those who journeyed in that vessel, a chosen company on the horizon of your history, were the best of English stock. They helped to found here a small colony of people, grim and stoical in spirit, yet touched with idealism. Though all the great countries of the earth have since given of their best to build this Nation, those few pilgrims have left their indelible stamp upon the culture, the institutions, and the laws of this land. Almost a century and a half ago that Colony broke away from the Mother Country with which it was long at war. But one hundred years of peace between the two nations had been cele- brated when in 191 7 they stood together in arms. War is the great Revealer. We learned in that great testing time of our race that ties of blood, when they mean kinship in spirit and an equal surrender to the noblest impulse, are never to be broken. In the