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Hall. The number of exhibits has in- 

 creased from 16,703 in 1890 to 170,184 in 

 1895. 



De. Leber, Professor of Opthalmology in 

 the University of Heidelberg, has been 

 awarded the Graefe Medal by the Opthal- 

 mological Congress recently held at Heidel- 

 berg. 



The American Electro-Therapeutic As- 

 sociation hekV its 5th annual meeting at 

 Torouto on September 3d, 4th and 5th. 



The professorship of geology and miner- 

 alogy in the University of Toronto is vacant, 

 owing to the resignation of Prof Chapman. 



Prof. Price, Commissioner of Fisheries 

 of the Dominion of Canada, has been exam- 

 ining the coast of British Columbia with a 

 view to finding a suitable place for lobster 

 breeding. 



Peopessoe Adamkiewicz, of Vienna, has 

 been elected correspondent of the Paris 

 Academy of Medicine in recognition of his 

 researches on the nature and treatment of 

 cancer. 



During the month of September there 

 will be held in Hamburg a meeting of the 

 Society of German Physicians for the "In- 

 sane, and in Stuttgart the annual meeting 

 of the German Society for Public Hygiene. 



Me. William Kent has become a member 

 of the editorial staff of Engineering News. 



Dr. Albert Gunthee, F. R. S., has re- 

 signed his position as Keeper of Zoology in 

 the ISTatural History Museum at South 

 Kensington after having filled it for thirty 

 years. 



Dr. John Syer Beistowe, a London 

 physician who acheived great success as a 

 writer, pathologist and clinical teacher, 

 died recently at Monmouth, at the age of 

 68. His treatise on the ' Theorj' and Prac- 

 tice of Medicine ' first published in 1876 is 

 regarded as one of the leading text-books 

 on the subject and has passed through 



many editions. In 1888 he published ' Di- 

 seases of the ISTervous System,' a collection 

 of papers containing important contribu- 

 tions to neurology. 



There will be held at Amsterdam on 

 September 20th and 21st an International 

 Congress of Railway and Marine Hygiene. 

 The work of the Congress will be divided 

 into three sections, dealing respectively with 

 the securities for the physical competence 

 of the staffs of railways and ships, the or- 

 ganization of the medical service, and the 

 hygienic interests of employees and travelers. 



Me. Marshall McDonald, Head of the 

 United States Fish Commission, died on 

 September 1st, at the age of 60 years. 



Professor Svbnon Louis Loven, a Sweed- 

 ish zoologist, died recently at the age of 86 

 years. 



Peofessoe Hoppe-Seylee, of Strassburg, 

 one of the founders of modern physiologi- 

 cal chemistry, died on August 12th, at the 

 age of 70. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal^ 

 that In the Ugeshrift for Lciger Dr. Friis ad- 

 vances a claim on behalf of a Holstein 

 schoolmaster named Peter Plett, to the 

 honour of priority in the discovery of vac- 

 cination. Jenner's first vaciuation was, he 

 says, performed on May 14th, 1796, but 

 Plett had already done it in 1791. The 

 latter was a tutor in a family at Schonweide 

 in Holstein in 1790, and while there he 

 heard that it was a matter of common 

 knowledge that the milkmaids who had pre- 

 viously been infected with cow-pox never 

 caught small-pox. Having by chance seen 

 a medical practitioner perform inoculation, 

 Plett conceived the idea that cow-pox lymph 

 might be used for the purpose of conferring 

 protection against small-pox. In 1791 he 

 was at Hasselburg, and an epidemic of cow- 

 pox occurring among the cows on a farm, 

 he told the children under his charge to 

 rub their hands with matter from the pus- 



