_Physicians of St. Thomas’s_. _Physicians of Guy’s_. Wm. Lister, M.D. Wm. Babington, M.D. W. C. Wills, M.D. James Curry, M.D. Thos. Turner, M.D. M. Alexander, M.D. G. Gilbert Currey, M.D. _Surgeons of St. Thomas’s._ _Surgeons of Guy’s_. G. Chander. T. Foster. I. Birch. Wm. Lucas. H. Cline. Astley Cooper.” As the outcome of the issue of this circular a committee was formed which held its first meeting at the City Coffee House on January 4th, 1805, Mr. Benjamin Travers, a wealthy City merchant and the father of the surgeon of the same name, being in the chair. This Mr. Benjamin Travers, Sen., in the keen pursuit of knowledge, had attended Astley Cooper’s lectures on anatomy, and had become so interested in them and the lecturer, that he apprenticed his son to him as a pupil, and later extended his patronage to the project of founding an eye dispensary put forward by Cooper’s demonstrator and protégé. At the meeting the following resolutions were moved and unanimously agreed to: “That a dispensary be instituted under the name of the London Dispensary for the Relief of the Poor afflicted with Diseases of the Eye and the Ear, where they may apply and obtain advice and medicines gratis. “That the dispensary be situated in a central part of this city and contain beds for the reception of patients who undergo the operation for the cataract or any other operation of the eye requiring minute care. “That the Charity consist of a Treasurer, Governors, Secretary, and Medical Officers. “That Henry Kensington, Esq., be appointed Treasurer. “That a person contributing an annual subscription of one guinea be a governor and have the right of recommending and keeping under the care of the charity one out-patient, and if two guineas, two out-patients, and so in proportion to his subscription. “That patients admitted into the house be admitted according to priority of recommendation, except in cases of emergency, when the medical officers must determine. “That Mr. J. C. Saunders be appointed Surgeon of the Dispensary, and that Dr. Farre be appointed Consulting Physician in cases requiring medical aid.” Richard Battley, who was then practising as an apothecary in St. Paul’s Churchyard, undertook the duties of Secretary, which he continued to discharge in an honorary capacity, with the utmost assiduity, for fourteen years. Many City merchants, with whom Saunders had no previous acquaintance, became subscribers, and sufficient funds were soon forthcoming to provide for the purchase of the lease of No. 40, Charterhouse Square, for eighteen years, for the sum of £300 and an annual rental of £65. PLATE II. [Illustration: SHOWING THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE AND NO. 40