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eral well known men from Great Britian. President Faure 

 and Gen. Billot, the minister of war, were represented at 

 the ceremony. Speeches were made at the crypt of the in- 

 stitute by M. Rambaud, M. Bodin, president of the muni- 

 cipal council of Paris, Dr. Eivans, Dr. Rice Duckworth and 

 others. 



Dr. John B. Hamilton has resig-ned from the Marine 

 Hospital service. 



Dr. Geo. H. Rohe, Secretary of the Rush Monument 

 Committee reports October 31, that since the last report 

 in April he has received the small sum of $159.00 making- a 

 total of $3,886.39. 



Dr. Hug-o de Vries has been appointed director of the 

 botanical g-ardens at Amsterdam in the place of Dr. Oude- 

 mans. 



Dr. J. de Winter, assistant in the Zoolog-ical g-arden at 

 Antwerp, has been made director of the Zoolog-ical garden 

 at Giseh, near Cairo. 



It is announced that Pfeiffer has found an efficacious and 

 reliable antitoxin for typhoid fever. 



Dr. W. M. L. Coplin, of Philadelphia, has been appointed 

 bacteriolog-ist to the Pennsylvania State Board of Health, 

 and Dr. Richard Slee of Swift water, Dr. Nelson F. Davis, 

 of Bucknell University, and Dr. Robert L. Pittield, of 

 Germantown, assistant bacteriologists. 



The widow of Baron Maurice Hirsch, of Vienna, has 

 resolved to present two millions of francs ( ^,80,000) to the 

 Pasteur Institute, as a memorial of her husband. — P^nglish 

 Mechanic. 



MICROSCOPK AL NOTES. 



Mrs. J. K. Reeves, 201 McCallie Ave., Chattanooga^ 

 Tenn., has 35 or 40 dozens of "unnamed" slides to sell. 

 They are the last work of her late husband, Dr. J. E. 

 Reeves. She has also as manv or more of "named" slides. 



