12 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [Feb. 



A ^"ooil 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 f^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- 

 aug-uration has been celebrated in the new buildings 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" 

 cmy with 800,000 francs, the interest of which is to g"o to 

 anv one who will discover a cure for consumption. 



The annual budget in Paris for the Assistance Publique 

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

 and surg-ical personnel receives $200,000. 



A report comes from the Medico-Surg-ical Society of Ant- 

 werp of the discovery of an antitoxin for pneumonia by 

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

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

 ent successful experiments have been ct)nfined to animals. 

 — Kng-lish Mechanic. 



Ink for Writing on Glass, — Shellac 2o i)arts, alcoht)! 150 

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

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

 the liorax in the water and jiour 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, exhil)ited 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 thousandtli of an inch thick. and in 

 paraffin sections only one five-thousandth of an inch thick 



