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lated with agar- agar, or nutrient gelatine, and plate cnltivations were 

 made of the whole. He obtained the following results: The micro- 

 organism most frequently found was staphylococcus albus, which was 

 absent in only one case; then came stalphylococcus anreus, and 

 staphylococcus citreus. Only in one case all these three staphylococci 

 were traced together. These results differ from those obtained by 

 N. Kirschner of Wurzburg, who only found staphylococcus albus. — 

 Peoria Med. Monthly. 



NEWS AND NOTES. 



The American Naturalist will again change its publishers in 

 January, 



The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. . I, No. I, has 

 just appeared. It is published in Baltimore, with Dr. G. Stanley 

 Hall as editor. 



Richard C. Greenleaf, who recently died in Boston, bequeathed 

 his microscopical library, microscopes and apparatus to the Boston 

 Society of Natural History. 



Calcutta has a newly organized Microscopical Society, with 

 Dr. Simpson, health officer of that city, as President, and the well- 

 known zoologist, Mr. I. Wood-Mason, as Vice-President. 



The body of Audubon, the naturalist, now lying in an obscure 

 corner of Trinity Cemeteiy, New York, is to be removed and placed 

 opposite the Fifty-tifth street entrance, where a monument to his 

 memory is to be erected by the Academy of Science. — Weekly 

 Med. Review. 



The 36-inch telescope, the largest in the world, which was 

 designed and built by Warner & Swasey, is finished and will be 

 shipped to its destination, Mt. Hamilton, Cal., where it will be placed 

 in the Lick Observatory. The total weight of the instrument is 

 thirty-five tons. 



BOOK REVIEWS. 



A Manual of Medical Juuispkddence, for the Use of Students at 

 Law and of Medicine. By Marshall D. Ewell, M. D., LL. D., 

 Professor of Common Law in Union College of Law, Chicago, pp. 4(J9. 

 Boston: Little, Brown & Company. 1887. 



This little work, when compared with others on the subject, 



has the great merit of being concise, and free from much of the 



legal details which, to the medical man at least, are unnecessary, if 



not confusing. 



