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ive talents, has lessened the time between two places. 

 The editor who knows u a little Latin and less Greek" 

 vigorously applies the lash to the fast-going world, 

 and stimulates greed for fame and fortune. The 

 preacher is superannuated unless he be sensational, 

 the lawyer without a conscience is in demand, and a 

 dudish doctor is sought by the senseless multitude. 

 Sic transit gloria mundi. 



But above and outside of this hustle and bustle 

 there is, arid ever will be, a place for modest merit. 

 The educated and refined will constitute the basis of 

 good society. The " three professions " will exert 

 their swaying influence as long as they be filled with 

 educated gentlemen. The minister, the lawyer, and 

 the doctor will be revered as long as they represent 

 learning and gentlemanly qualities. 



At the International Medical Congress the sec- 

 tion on anatomy considered the question of modifying 

 anatomical nomenclature. There was evidently a dif- 

 ference of opinion as to the extent of proposed modi- 

 fications. Sir William Turner made a very sensible 

 speech. He said that before any thing could be done 

 in this direction some general principle should be 

 agreed upon. There must be a recognized basis on 

 which the proposed committee could act while at- 

 tempting to give scientific shape to technical modifica- 

 tions. Although many of the terms used were sin- 

 gularly inappropriate, they were classical and held a 

 prominent place in the history of anatomy, command- 

 ing such reverence that British anatomists would never 



consent to give them up 



. . . . Inasmuch as Mr. Turner and Professor 

 Cunningham were put on the committee of revision^ 



