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found to be made with a camel-hair pencil dipped in the same balsam 

 that is used in mounting. It makes a very neat and handsome finish, 

 with of course no tendency to run in and spoil the specimen, as is the 

 case with all coloured cements used for this purpose. The oil of 

 cloves is preferable to turpentine for mounting from, since it is more 

 readily miscible with the balsam, and does not harden the specimens, 

 which may be left in it for a long while unchanged. 



Experiments on Septicemic Blood have been, we understand, 

 lately performed by M. Onimus, which are somewhat like those made 

 some time since by Dr. Burdon Sanderson. M. Onimus enclosed sep- 

 ticemic blood in a dialysing paper, and has plunged this into distilled 

 water. At the end of twenty-four hours, the distilled water became 

 milky, and swarmed with myriads of bacteria. He satisfied himself 

 that these bacteria did not proceed from the septica;mic blood, but 

 were formed outside the parchment pouch ; for the dialysing paper, 

 when examined by the microscope, did not show any bacteria. He 

 injected as much as fifty or sixty cubic centimetres of this liquid, 

 filled with living corpuscles, into a rabbit, without producing the 

 slightest disturbance. But when on the other hand he injected a drop 

 of the blood contained in the dialysing paper, the death of the animal 

 was rapid. He repeated these experiments with albumen, injecting 

 into the veins of a rabbit albumen, in which bacteria had developed, 

 and the rabbit survived. M. Onimus concludes that: 1. The sep- 

 ticemic virus is a non-dialy sable substance ; 2. Bacteria only, or 

 bacteria developed in albumen, are not sufficient to produce the putre- 

 faction of blood ; the blood must be injected in Mo. 



The Professorship of Anatomy and Physiology in the Veterinary 

 College of Edinburgh has been given to a most worthy candidate, lately 

 a Fellow of our Society, Dr. James Murie, F.L.S., who will, we doubt 

 not, be as energetic in the discharge of his duties in Scotland as he 

 has been — judging by the published list of his numerous researches — 

 in his various offices in this country. 



A Chair of Microscopic Anatomy in Spain. — The 'Medical 

 Becord ' (May 14) says that a chair of normal and pathological his- 

 tology has been founded by the Spanish republican government in the 

 University of Madrid, and endowed with a salary of 5000 pesetas 

 (210?.). The medical faculty of the University of Valencia has pro- 

 tested against the establishment of a similar chair in that institution, 

 on the grounds, inter alia, that the subjects are already taught by the 

 several professors. 



Man infested with Trichinae through eating Pork. — We learn 

 from a contemporary that there has been a number of people attacked 

 by this worm through eating raw ham, a common practice in North 

 Germany. It is said that about 200 persons, who bad partaken of 

 some raw pigs' flesh obtained from a butcher in Magdeburg, have been 

 attacked with grave symptoms of the flesh-worm disease, due to the 

 incision of their tissues by hosts of living trichinae. One is dead. 

 The living trichinae have been found in numbers (as is usual), in 

 small parts of the muscle, and removed by a little instrument devised 



