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will be the duty of the surgeon-general of the 

 new service to prepare proper forms for col- 

 lecting the data, in conjunction with the State 

 boards of health, and to compile and publish 

 them as a part of the reports of the service. 

 The consulting board above mentioned will 

 consist of the surgeons-general of the army 

 and navy, the Chief of the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry in the Agricultural Department, and 

 the director of the laboratory in that bureau, 

 and five other members not regularly in gov- 

 ernment employ. The service will remain a 

 bureau of the Treasury Department. 



The new Health Board of New York City, 

 at its first meeting, made an important de- 

 parture from precedent by creating a medical 

 advisory board of twelve prominent physicians 

 with Professor Charles F. Chandler, of Co- 

 lumbia University, at the head, with the title 

 of consulting sanitarian. The Board is to 

 serve without pay. Its other members are: 



Dr. Edward G. Janeway, Dean of the Faculty 

 of the University of Medicine and Bellevue Hos- 

 pital Medical College, and former Commissioner 

 of Health. 



Dr. Joseph D. Bryant, Professor of Surgery, 

 University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 

 and former Commissioner of Health. 



Dr. T. Mitchell Prudden, Director of the De- 

 partment of Pathology, College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons; Vice-President of the Rockefeller In- 

 stitute for Medical Research. 



Dr. William M. Folk, Dean of the Faculty of 

 Medicine, Cornell Medical College. 



Dr. A. Jacobi, former President of the Acad- 

 emy of Medicine; Professor of the diseases of 

 children. College of Physicians and Surgeons. 



Dr. John Wintres Brannan, President Board of 

 Governors of the Miuturn Hospital; President 

 Medical Board of the hospitals of the Department 

 of Health. 



Dr. Richard H. Derby, surgeon. New York Eye 

 and Ear Infirmary. 



Dr. I. Emmet Holt, President of the Medical 

 Board, Babies' Hospital; Secretary Board of 

 Trustees, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search. 



Dr. Alexander Smith, Professor of the Prin- 

 ciples and Practice of Medicine, University and 

 Bellevue Hospital Medical College. 



Dr. Francis P. Kinnicutt, Clinical Professor 

 of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons. 



Dr. Henry R. Loomis, Professor of Materia 

 Medica and Therapeutics, Cornell University 

 Medical College. 



As its medical adviser the Board selected Dr. 

 Herman M. Biggs. 



, The Lancet states that Professor Vir- 

 chow's eightieth birthday was celebrated with 

 much enthusiasm in Bahia, Brazil. In honor 

 of the occasion a very numerously attended 

 public meeting was held on October 13, the 

 company present including the Governor of 

 the State, the President of the Municipal 

 Council, the German Consul and the Director 

 of the Schools of Medicine, Jurisprudence 

 and Engineering. The arrangements were 

 made by the Gremio dos Internes dos Hos- 

 pitaes da Bahia, an association of the internes 

 of the hospitals, and the meeting took place 

 in the handsomely decorated hall of the Gre- 

 mio Literario. M. Pontes, the president of 

 the association, opened the proceedings with 

 an address, after which the Governor of the 

 State took the chair. Professor Juliano 

 Moreira, speaking in the double capacity of 

 a member of the medical profession and one 

 of the editorial staff of the Gazeta Medica of 

 Bahia, gave a comprehensive review of Pro- 

 fessor Virehow's achievements, not only as ■ a 

 physician and a pathologist, but also as a 

 biologist and as a savant whose methods of 

 research had influenced every branch of hu- 

 man knowledge. He concluded by reading 

 aloud a Latin address to Professor Virchow 

 written on parchment for the purpose of be- 

 ing sent to him. M. Paranhos, speaking in 

 the name of the Revista do Gremio, gave a 

 sketch of the vast amount of work which Pro- 

 fessor Virchow had contrived to crowd into the 

 space of 60 years. Addresses were also de- 

 livered by M. Oscar Freire, representing the 

 Gremio dos Internes, and by Dr. Egas Moniz, 

 speaking in the name of the Gremio Literario 

 and of a number of German journals of 

 Parana and Rio Grande do Sul. Poems in 

 honor of Germany and Professor Virchow 

 were recited by the last-named gentleman 

 and by M. Damasceno Vietra, after which the 

 national airs of Germany and Brazil were 

 played by the band. The October issue of the 

 Gazeta Medica of Bahia, the doyen of the 



