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NEWS AND NOTES. 



M. Farabeuf succeeds M. Sappey as Professor of anatomy in 

 the Paris faculty. 



Francisco Magni, formerly Director of the Anatomical School 

 at Florence, but recently Professor of Ophthalmology, at Bologna, 

 ' died at San Remo, Feb. 2, aged fifty-nine. 



The Spanish Government intends to erect a laboratory for re- 

 search in bacteriology in Barcelona, under the control of Ferran. A 

 Pasteur Institute will be built and equipped by the Italian govern- 

 ment in Palermo, the director of which will be Professor Celli. — 

 Phi la. Medical Neivs. 



A NEW work on the " Fresh-water Algae of the United States," 

 by the Rev. Francis Wolle is in press. It will contain 150 plates, 

 with over 2,000 figures. — Bot. Gazette. 



Mr. John Kruttschnitt, of New Orleans, has an interesting 

 paper on " Observations on the Sarraceniacear or Pitcher Plants," 

 in the January number of the Journal of Education. As this arti- 

 cle was originally intended for The Microscope, we regret that it 

 wandered into other print. 



An interesting paper on "The Evolution of the Special Senses," 

 by W. C. Cahall, M. D., appeared in the Angnst Jou^mal of Ne7'vous 

 and Mental Diseases. 



The Macleay natural history collection. University of Sydney, is 

 valued at $125,000. A sum of $30,000 has been promised for the 

 endowment of a curatorship in connection with it. 



The Dental Review for December, January and February con- 

 tains an interesting illustrated article on the periosteum and periden- 

 tal membrane, by G. V. Black, M. D., D. D. S. 



Sir William Dawson will prepare a volume for the International 

 scientific series on the subject of the development of plants in geo- 

 logical time. 



Prof. Weigand, the well-known botanist of Marburg, whose 

 death was recently announced, was a voluminous writer, not only on 

 botany, but also on microscopical subjects. Of late he fought, like 

 Agassiz, against Darwinism. — Western Druggist. 



Dr. Salmon states that he has certainly found the microbe which 

 is the cause of the swine plague. It is a bacterium and produces all 

 the symptoms of the disease when hypodermically injected into the 

 pig. — Amer. Pract. and News. 



