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in 1799 and will tliis year celebrate its cente- 

 nary by special exercises, the character of which 

 has not j'et been announced. 



The Boston Medical Committee has awarded 

 its prize to Dr. Guy Hinsdale, of Philadelphia, 

 for an essay on Acromegaly, which has just 

 been published. For 1900 two prizes are of- 

 fered by the Committee : (1) A prize of one hun- 

 dred and fifty dollars for the best dissertation 

 on 'The Results of Original Work in Anatomy, 

 Physiology or Pathology,' the subject to be 

 chosen by the writer. (2) A prize of one hun- 

 dred and fiftj' dollars for the best dissertation 

 on ' The Method of Origin of Serpentine Ar- 

 teries and the Structural Changes to be found 

 in them ; Their Relation to Arteria-capillary 

 Fibrosis, Obliterating Endarteritis and to En- 

 darteritis Deformans.' Dissertations on these 

 subjects must be sent on or before Januarj^ 1, 

 1900, to the Secretary of the Committee, Dr. 

 W. F. Whitney, Harvard Medical School, Bos- 

 ton, Blass. 



The Paris Academy of Medicine has held its 

 annual public meeting for 1898 and awarded 

 the large number of prizes at its disposal. No 

 less than forty prizes were given, not including 

 a large number of medals. 



Dr. Nolan has presented to the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, as a memorial of 

 the late Dr. Joseph Leidy, five volumes of 

 biographical notices, portraits, autograph let- 

 ters and original drawings. The first volume 

 contains several addresses and articles prepared 

 on the occasion of Dr. Leidy 's death and other 

 interesting biographical material. The second 

 volume contains botanical drawings and notes 

 and the remaining three volumes zoological 

 drawings and notes. The volumes are care- 

 fully indexed. 



At the next meeting of the British Medical 

 Association, which will be held at Portsmouth 

 'from the 1st to the 4th of August, the address 

 in medicine will be given by Sir Richard Powell 

 and the address in surgery by Professor Alex- 

 ander Ogston. 



Among those who will give Friday evening 

 discourses before the Royal Institution, London, 

 during the present season are Lord Rayleigh, 

 Professor H. L. Callaudar, Mr. Victor Horsley, 



Professor H. S. Hele-Shaw and Professor Dewar, 

 who will give the first lecture on January 20th, 

 on Liquid Hydrogen. 



The English papers contain details of the 

 meeting to further the objects of the National 

 Association for the Prevention of Consumption, 

 held at Marlborough House on December 20th. 

 The Prince of Wales presided, and addresses 

 were made by Sir William Broadbent, Sir 

 Granger Stewart, President of the British Med- 

 ical Association, Dr. Moore, President of the 

 Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Sir 

 James Sawyer, Dr. Andrew, President of the 

 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and 

 Professor McFadyean. The Marquis of Salis- 

 bury moved the following resolution]: "This 

 meeting desires to express its approval of the 

 effort which is being made by ' The National 

 Association for the Prevention of Consumption 

 and other Forms of Tuberculosis ' to check the 

 spread of the diseases due to tubercle, and to 

 promote the recovery of those suffering from 

 consumption and tuberculous disease generally. 

 It also commends the method adopted by the 

 Association of instructing public opinion and 

 stimulating public interest rather than the ad- 

 vocacy of measures of compulsion." This reso- 

 lution was seconded by Sir Samuel Wilkes, 

 President of the Royal College of Physicians, 

 and carried unanimously. Remarks were made 

 by Lord Rosebery, Mr. Walter Long, M. P., 

 and the Prince of Wales. It was announced 

 that the London partners of Werner, Beit &Co. 

 had contributed £20,000 for the erection of a 

 sanitarium to be administered by the Associa- 

 tion. 



AccoEDiNG to cablegrams to the London 

 Times, Colonel Lawrie, Plague Commissioner in 

 Haidarabad, gave evidence on December 19th 

 before the Plague Commission. He stated that 

 the first indigenous case occurred in January, 

 1897. The measures adopted were evacuation, 

 disinfection, and the burning of floors and walls 

 in kilns. Haffkine's fluid was not a serum, but a 

 putrescent organic liquid containing micrococci 

 of putrefaction and occasionally pathogenic or- 

 ganisms. It was, therefore, directly against 

 modern medicine and antiseptic surgery to 

 inject the fluid. Inoculation had not been 



