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nent surgeon, to whose chair he suc- 

 ceeded. His nephew is a leading man 

 of science, but he left no children. 



It was at Glasgow, where the in- 

 firmary was a hotbed of septic disease, 

 that Lister, using the discovery of 

 Pasteur that decomposition in organic 

 substances is due to living germs which 

 are descended from parents like them- 

 selves, applied the antiseptic treatment 

 in surgery, an advance only paralleled 

 by that of the discovery of antiseptics. 

 It was not an isolated discovery, but 

 was preceded and followed by impor- 

 tant researches, which led up to it and 

 perfected it. Perhaps no one else has 

 accomplished so much as Lister for the 

 relief of suffering and the prevention 

 V)f premature death. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 

 We record with regret the death of 

 Professor George Jarvis Brush, the 

 eminent mineralogist of Yale Univer- 



sity, and of Dr. Waldemar Koch, of 

 the University of Chicago, known for 

 his researches in physiological chem- 

 istry. 



M. LiPPMAN has been elected presi- 

 dent, and Professor Guyon vice presi- 

 dent, of the Paris Academy of Sci- 

 ences. — The Academy of Sciences at 

 Bologna has awarded the Elie de Cyon 

 prize of 3,000 lire to Professor E. A. 

 Schafer, of Edinburgh. — Among the 

 British honors are knighthoods con- 

 ferred on Professor W. F. Barrett, 

 F.E.S., formerly professor of physics 

 in the "Eoyal College of Science, Dublin, 

 and Professor E. B. Tylor, F.E.S., 

 emeritus professor of anthropology in 

 the University of Oxford. — It is pro- 

 posed to have painted and to present 

 to the American Philosophical Society 

 a portrait of its president, Dr. "William 

 W. Keen, who, on January 19, cele- 

 brated his seventy-fifth birthday. 



