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Eoyal Society as well as of the Eoyal College 

 of Physicians, and had attained a leading 

 position in London when he was killed in a 

 railway accident in 1861. Five years later 

 Dr. Dyster presented a siun of money to the 

 college to found a medal in Baly's memory, 

 to be given every two years to the person 

 deemed to have most distinguished himself 

 in the science of physiology, especially during 

 the two years preceding the award of the 

 medal. The first recipient was Eiehard 

 Owen; among the others were William 

 Sharpey, Charles Darwin, Sir David Terrier, 

 Sir Michael Foster, Dr. W. H. Gaskell, Sir 

 Edward Sharpey Schafer, Professor E. H. 

 Starling, Professor Halliburton, Dr. J. S. 

 Haldane, Professor Gowland Hopkins, and 

 Professor W. M. Bayliss. But the medal is 

 not restricted to British subjects, and has 

 been awarded at various times to Claude 

 Bernard, Carl Ludwig, R. Heidenhain, M. 

 SchifF, Professor Pavloff (the Russian physi- 

 ologist), and Professor E. Fischer. Harvey, 

 in giving the college his patrimonial estate 

 of Burmarsh, in Kent, in 1656, just a year 

 before his death, enjoined that once every 

 year a general feast should be held within 

 the college, and that on that day an oration 

 should be delivered exhorting the fellows and 

 members to search and study out the secrets 

 of Nature by way of experiment, and also, for 

 the honor of the profession, to continue in 

 mutual love and affection among themselves, 

 ever remembering that concordia res parvoB 

 crescunt, discordia magnm dilabuntur. It has 

 been the practise of the college to obey this 

 injunction by holding a dinner of the fellows, 

 to which the guests are invited, on St. Luke's 

 Day. Such a dinner was held on October 18. 

 The President (Sir ISTorman Moore), in pro- 

 posing a toast to the guests, dealt briefly with 

 the changes and terrible events of the years 

 since 1913, and remarked incidentally that 

 the college had been prevented from cele- 

 brating as it would have wished the quater- 

 centenary of its foundation, which fell on 

 September 28, 1918. In happy sentences, 

 illumined by many historical references, he 

 showed how the college had always manifested 

 its attachment to literature. He reminded 



hearers that Linaere — who, with the aid of 

 Cardinal "Wolsey, obtained from Henry VIII. 

 the charter of incorporation— was one of the 

 earliest Greek scholars in this country, and 

 the friend of such men as Erasmus, More and 

 Tunstall. Ever since the college had shown 

 its attachment to learning, and had never 

 wanted among its fellows men of literary dis- 

 tinction and wide scholarship. The toast was 

 acknowledged by Sir J. J. Thomson, Presi- 

 dent of the Eoyal Society, who vindicated the 

 claims of medicine .to be accounted an in- 

 dependent science, bringing to its task for 

 the prevention and relief of human suffering 

 special methods of observation and experi- 

 ment, upon which the art of the physician is 

 founded. The toast was acknowledged also 

 by Mr. J. 0. Bailey, the editor of Cowper. 

 The health of the Harveian orator was given 

 in a brilliant and sympathetic speech by the 

 senior censor. Sir Wilmot Herringham, and 

 briefly acknowledged by Dr. Crawfurd. — The 

 British Medical Journal. 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS 



Konchugaku Hanron Jokwan {General Trea- 

 tise on Entomology'). By. Dr. T. Miyake. 

 Shokabo, ISTihonbashi, Tokyo, Vol. II., 1919. 

 In Science for August 3, 1917, is pub- 

 lished a brief review of the first volume of 

 this excellent work by Dr. Miyake, of the 

 Imperial Agricultural Experiment Station at 

 Nishigahara, Tokyo. The second volmne has 

 just appeared, and includes a discussion of 

 insects' relations to plants, animals and man, 

 with methods of general study, classification 

 and collecting. It also includes a history of 

 entomology in foreign countries and also in 

 the older days in Japan. Although published 

 in Japanese, much of it will be intelligible to 

 the American reader through the abundant 

 illustrations, which, of course, constitute a 

 universal language. Dr. Miyake expects to 

 publish two additional volumes, and the work 

 as a whole will be an admirable compendiiun 

 for the students of entomology in Japan. He 

 has done pioneer work in many directions, the 

 educational value of which is very high. 



L. O. Howard 



