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gist in the Cancer Laboratory at Buffalo, at 

 a salary of $2,500 a year. 



The Pasteur Institute of Paris has re- 

 ceived a large bequest from Mme. Cather- 

 ine Schumacher. 



The eastern branch of the A m erican So- 

 ciety of Zoologists will meet during Convoca- 

 tion Week at Ithaca, New York. 



The medical tour organized by the Geiinan 

 Central Committee this year will start from 

 Stuttgart on September 1, and visit Ragaz, 

 Flims, Davos, Vulpera, Tarasp, St. Moritz, 

 Zuoz, Pontresina, Sils-Maria, Lugano, Mon- 

 treux, Caux, Glion, Leysin, Evian, Inter- 

 laken and Bern, ending at Freiburg in Baden 

 on September 19. 



The Second Quinquennial International 

 Congress of Anatomists was held at Brussels 

 from August 7 to 11. The London Times 

 states that the meetings were held in the 

 morning in the university, and in the after- 

 noon demonstrations were given in the Anat- 

 omy School in the Pare Leopold. There was 

 also an official reception by the Municipality 

 in the Hotel de Ville, besides the customary 

 dinner of the members. Some fifty papers 

 were read, the great majority of them dealing 

 with embryology, both human and compara- 

 tive, and histology. Such subjects as the de- 

 velopment of the blood cells, their classifica- 

 tion and terminology, and the earliest stages 

 of development of the fertilized ovum in man, 

 in marsupials, and in the rodents of North 

 America were fully treated by Minot, of Bos- 

 ton; Hill, of London; Lee, of Minneapolis; 

 Lams, of Prance; Masimow and Frau Dant- 

 schakoff, of Germany, and others. An inter- 

 national committee was appointed to consider 

 and draw up a uniform nomenclature in em- 

 bryology. 



The Royal Sanitary Institute preliminary 

 program of the Twenty-fifth Congress, to be 

 held in Brighton from September 5 to 10, is 

 abstracted in the London Times. The presi- 

 dent of the congress is Sir John Cockburn. 

 Dr. A. Newsholme (principal medical officer, 

 local government board) will deliver the lec- 

 ture to the congress on " The National Impor- 



tance of Child Mortality," and Dr. Ales. Hill 

 will deliver the popular lecture on " The 

 Bricks with which the Body is Built." A 

 large number of local authorities have already 

 appointed delegates to the congress, and as 

 there are also over 3,800 members and asso- 

 ciates in the institute there will probably be a 

 large attendance, in addition to the local mem- 

 bers of the congress. A health exhibition of 

 apparatus and appliances relating to health 

 and domestic use will be held as illustrating 

 the application and carrying out of the prin- 

 ciples and methods discussed at the meetings ; 

 it not only serves this purpose, but also an 

 important one in diffusing sanitary knowledge 

 among a large class who do not attend the 

 other meetings of the congress. The congress 

 will include general addresses and lectures, 

 and two section meetings, for two days each, 

 dealing with: Section I. — Sanitary Science 

 and Preventive Medicine. President, Pro- 

 fessor E. W. Hope, medical officer of health, 

 city and port of Liverpool. Section II. — 

 Engineering and Architecture. President, 

 Mr. Henry Rofe. There will be eight special 

 conferences, namely : " Municipal Representa- 

 tives," " Port Sanitary Authorities," " Medical 

 Officers of Health," " Engineers and Surveyors 

 to County and other Sanitary Authorities," 

 " Veterinary Inspectors," " Sanitary Inspect- 

 ors," " Women on Hygiene," presided over by 

 Lady Chichester, and " Hygiene of Child- 

 hood," presided over by Sir William Collins, 

 M.P. 



The British registrar-general has issued his 

 return relating to the births and deaths in the 

 second quarter of the year, and to the mar- 

 riages in the three months ending March last. 

 As abstracted in the British Medical Journal, 

 the marriage-rate during that period was equal 

 to 12.6 per 1,000, or 1.4 per 1,000 more than 

 the average rate for the corresponding quarter 

 of the ten preceding years. The 234,814 births 

 registered in England and Wales during the 

 quarter ending June last were equal to an 

 annual rate of 26.0 per 1,000 of the population, 

 estimated at 36,169,150 persons in the middle 

 of the year; the birth-rate last quarter was 

 2.1 per 1,000 below the average for the second 



