72 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [Feb. 



A g-ood microscope for sale cheap. Pacific Medical 

 Journal Office, 603 Sutter St., San Francisco, Cal. 



Barbados. — The official papers of Barbados spell the 

 word as above and not as we have heretofore g-iven it in 

 the articles of certain contributors — Barbadoes. 



A small crystal of Thymol will preserve urinary sedi- 

 ments. 



There is now once more a University of Paris. The in- 

 auguration has been celebrated In the new building- of the 

 Sorbonne. 



The twelfth International Cong-ress of Medicine will take 

 place from Aug-ust 19th to 26th, 1897, at Moscow. 



It is reported that a lady has presented the French Acad' 

 emy with 800,000 francs, the interest of which is to g-o to 

 any one who will discover a cure for consumption. 



The annual budg-et in Paris for the Assistance Publique 

 amounts to the larg-e sum of $8,000,000; of this the medical 

 and surgical personnel receives $200,000. 



A report comes from the Medico-Surgical Society of Ant- 

 werp of the discovery of an antitoxin for pneumonia by 

 Dr. Mennes, of Louvain. The microbe is stated to be ex- 

 tremely small, of a shape approaching an oval. At pres- 

 ent successful experiments have been confined to animals. 

 — English Mechanic. 



Ink for \A^ritingon Glass. — Shellac 20 parts, alcohol 150 

 parts, borax 35 parts, water 250 parts. Water soluble 

 dye, sufficient to color. Dissolve the shellac in the alcohol, 

 the borax in the water and pour the shellac solution slowly 

 into that of the borax. Then add the coloring matter, pre- 

 viously dissolved in a little water. 



Dr. Sidney Yankauer of New York County, exhibited at 

 the thirteenth annual meeting of the New York State Med- 

 ical Association, 1896, a simple and inexpensive microtome 

 which he devised. With the model shown he said he had 

 cut sections in celloidin a thousandth of an inch thick,and in 

 paraffin sections only one five-thousandth of an inch thick 



