Founding of the Society
Year	Authority / Notes
1823	According to an authority record in the Illinet cat., a note on p.2 of the 1883, Sept.1 issue of the Circular of selections indicates that this Society was organized in Mar. 1823. A note at the at first in Calcutta website reads "The European physicians in Calcutta met on 1st March.1823, to found the 'Calcutta Medical & Physical Society'. The venue of the meeting was The Asiatic Society.". There is some valuable historical information on this Society and its first journal (Transactions) to be found in an article by S. D. Sinha in the National Medical Journal of India entitled Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta: The first English language medical journal in India. The quoted Sinha article gives some information on the initial work of the society, but is devoted primarily to its Transactions. QUESTION: Were the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta and the Medical and Physical Society of Bengal different entities? Although it is very easy to find publications of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta. We have found only two for the Medical and Physical Society of Bengal : in the Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army, there is an entry for the Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bengal [Calcutta], where p.115 cites Oct. 6, 1838 - Oct.3, 1840 and provides the following journal-title abbreviation: Tr. M. & Phys. Soc. Bengal, Calcutta. in the National LIbrary of Medicine (USA), there is an entry for the Circular of selections ; the Medical and Physical Society of Bengal with sub-title Medical and Physical Society of Bengal.; Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta. Meeting, which cites a run of [No. 1] (1st Sept. 1838) - no. 30 (6th Mar. 1841). It should be noted that the runs for these two entry overlap roughly. Given this information, it is not absolutely clear that these were two separate societies. It is possible that Medical and Physical Society of Bengal [Calcutta] was simply an alternative name for Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta. We have found no records of its existence past 1845.
Seat of the Society
City	Authority / Notes
Calcutta India	This location is supported by the name of the Society.
Name of the Society
Dates	Name	Authority
1823, March 1 - 1845?	Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta	Catalogue records.

Journals of the Society
Years	Full Journal Title	Abbrev.
1.1823/24(1825) - 9.1845   A	Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta The record in the Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB) gives its holdings as 1.1823/24(1825) - 8.1836/42[?]. The record in the Harvard Univ. cat. gives its holdings as v. 1-9 (1823-1845) and notes that this journal ceased publication with v. 9, part 1. The record in the Edinburgh Univ. cat. indicates that this journal had the half-title: Medical and physical transactions. There is some valuable historical information on this Society and its first journal (Transactions) to be found in an article by S. D. Sinha in the National Medical Journal of India entitled Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta: The first English language medical journal in India. In the quoted Sinha article, we learn that “The TMPSC was published annually in 1825, 1826 and 1827; then once in two years till 1836. According to Leonard Rogers (Indian Medical Service), ‘In 1837–38, six quarterly journals were distributed among the members, but in 1842 a large volume was published…and a ninth volume was issued in 1845, which is the last to be found in the Medical College Library.’” A record in the WorldCat gives a separate entry for Quarterly journal of the Calcutta Medical and Physical Society with publication history: 1837 - 1838 in 6 volumes.	Calcutta, Trans. Med. Phys. Soc. [RSLC, v.1, p.XXV cites Vols. I-VII, 1825 - 1835.] Quart. Journ. Med. Phys. Soc. Calcutta [Brit. Med. J., Vol. 1, No. 2563 (Feb. 12, 1910), p.374 cites 1839.] Quart. Journal of the Calcutta Medical and Physical Society [London J. Med., Vol. 4, No. 45 (Sep., 1852), p.818 cites April 19, 1837.] Tr. M. & Phys. Soc. Calcutta [ Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army, p.115 cites v. 1-8, 1825-42; pt. 1, v. 9, 1845.] Trans. Med. and Phys. Soc. Calcutta [Prov. Med. J., Vol. 4, No. 9 (Jun. 4, 1842), p.168 cites I. Trans. med. phys. Soc. Calcutta [J. Hist. Med. Allied Sci., Vol. 26, No. 3 (JULY 1971), p.247 cites 1825, 1.] Trans. Med. & Phys. Soc. Calcutta [Bull. Misc. Info. (Roy. Botanical Gardens, Kew), Vol. 1906, No. 8 (1906), p.338 cites vol. i, 1825 and vol. iii, 1827.] Trans. Medical and Phys. Soc. Calcutta [T'oung Pao, Second Series, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1906), p.190 cites IV, 1829.] Trans. of the Med. and Phys. Soc. of Calcutta [Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., Vol. 56, No. 7 (1917), p.616 cites cites an article by W. Griffith; no date or volume number is given.]
[No. 1] (1st Sept. 1838) - no. 30 (6th Mar. 1841).   B	Circular of selections ; the Medical and Physical Society of Bengal The sub-title is given as Medical and Physical Society of Bengal.; Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta. Meeting. It is not entirely clear whether there was a separate society called the Medical and Physical Society of Bengal. There is a separate entry for the Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bengal in the Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army, where p.115 cites Oct. 6, 1838 - Oct.3, 1840, which roughly matches the time period of the Circular of selections. Title from caption; first issue lacks title and numbering. Consists chiefly of articles formerly published in European and American journals. Lacks no. 26 for Oct. 1840. Separately paged papers that were distributed with the circulars are bound at end of vol. Contains proceedings of the Meetings of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta. [National LIbrary of Medicine (USA)]