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It is proposed to commemorate the fiftieth 

 anniversary of Professor Leuekart's doc- 

 torate. American stvidents who have stud- 

 ied zoology under Professor Leuckart at 

 Leipzig and who wish to contribute to the 

 memorial — which will be a marble bust — 

 should send subscriptions to Herrn Karl 

 Graubner, Johannes Gasse 8, Leipzig. 



Sir Joseph Lister has been presented 

 with a portrait of himself painted by Mr. 

 Lorimer as a testimonial from his colleagues 

 and pupils on his retirement from his chair 

 in King's College Hospital. Speeches were 

 made by Dr. W. S. Playfair, who presided, 

 and Sir John Ericksen. 



It is proposed to erect a statue in Copen- 

 hagen to the memory of Dr. Hans Wilhelm 

 Meyer. Subscriptions may be sent to Mr. 

 A. E. Cumberbatch, 80 Portland Place, 

 London, W. 



The citizens of Geneva have petitioned 

 that the statue of Carl Vogt, the work of 

 M. de Mederhausen, be placed in the open 

 air on the Promenade des Bastions instead 

 of in The Vestibule of the University. 



Sir William Flower, Professor W. Earn- 

 say and M. Sabatier have been elected cor- 

 respondents of the French Academy. 



The Photographic Times for August con- 

 tains an admirably illustrated article on 

 Astronomical Photography by Professor E. 

 E. Barnard. A number of full-page repro- 

 ductions are given of photographs with ex- 

 posures as long as five hours. 



We quote from the Lancet the outlines of 

 a plan having for its object the continua- 

 tion of the Index Medicus: " The yearly 

 cost of production is about £1,000 and it is 

 proposed to raise this sum by 200 subscrip- 

 tions of £5 each. The United States, it is 

 estimated, , will supply 120, Great Britain 

 60, and the Continent 20. We think, how- 

 ever, that Great Britain with all her learned 

 societies might well subscribe £400 by her- 

 self. If £5 is too heavy a tax for one indi- 



vidual to undertake, there are surely five 

 medical men in every one of our large 

 towns each of whom would subscribe £1, 

 and so form a group which would receive a 

 copy of the Index for their common use; 

 while institutions and societies should have 

 no hesitation in voting the required amount. 

 Those who are willing to subscribe are re- 

 quested to communicate with the Librarian, 

 Eoyal Medical and Chirurgical Society, 20 

 Hanover Square, London, W." 



At a recent meeting of the Michigan State 

 Board of Health, the means of carrying out 

 a new act of the Legislature passed at the 

 instance of the board were discussed. This 

 a;ct requires the State Board of Health an- 

 nually to send to public school superin- 

 tendents and teachers throughout the State, 

 printed data and statements which will 

 enable teachers to teach then- pupils the 

 modes by which the dangerous communi- 

 cable diseases are spread, and the best 

 methods for the restinction and prevention 

 of such diseases. This same law provides 

 a fine or forfeiture in cases where any school 

 board wilfully neglects to complj^, and such 

 neglect by any superintendent or teacher is 

 sufficient cause for dismissal. There are 

 16,000 teachers in the State who will be re- 

 quired to spread sanitary information to 

 their pupils. From a better and more gen- 

 eral knowledge of diphtheria alone it is 

 hoped that there will be a saving of life and 

 money values equal to an amount much 

 greater than the State now expends for the 

 maintenence of the State Board of Health. 



The International Congress of Otology, 

 held at Florence on September 2.3rd, will be 

 attended by the leading aural surgeons of 

 Europe and America. The last congress 

 was held in Brussels in 1888. 



Professor J. Mark Baldwin, of Prince- 

 ton, is cooperating in the preparation of the 

 new French Dictionnarie de Physiologic, of 

 which Professor Ch. Richet is the general 



