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years of age he could read fluently, and that before he was four 

 he had read the Bible twice through. Young's isolation and 

 self-reliance also betrayed him into a flagrant error from which 

 one would have thought his own consciousness of power might 

 have saved him. He repudiated genius, and maintained that 

 all minds are originally of equal capacity, and that all success 

 is to be attributed to industry. It is hard to understand how 

 Young, seeing as he must have done the bodily differences in 

 human beings, recognising as he did the differences in the 

 acuity of their senses and the size of their brains, could have 

 brought himself to believe that it is possible by any amount of 

 diligence to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. 



The orator gave a detailed account of Young's work on the 

 accommodation of the e3 r e, which was subsequently completed 

 by Sir William Bowman. Young's scientific career was for a 

 time blighted and the power he should have exerted on 

 scientific progress paralysed b}' an attack in the Edinburgh 

 Review. 



F. W. Edridge-Green. 



The Kitasato Institute for Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 



We have received a notice from Prof. Dr. Kitasato and 

 seven of his distinguished associates informing us that they have 

 all left the Imperial Institute for the Study of Infectious Diseases 

 of the Home Department of the Japanese Government, and have 

 started a new private institution with the above name at 

 Sankocho, Shibaku, Tokyo. We wish this new institute with 

 its very distinguished staff every success in the future. 



