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that more than $200,000 has been already 

 spent on them, while the animals, some 1,400 

 in number, represent $50,000. As at Stellin- 

 gen, cages have been to a great extent dis- 

 pensed with, deep ditches and scarped cliffs 

 serving to confine the animals, which thus 

 appear to be at liberty. 



CoNSTEUCTiON has begun upon the new Bos- 

 ton Psychopathic Hospital, which has been 

 planned by the Board of Insanity, in accord- 

 ance with an act of legislature, to receive, 

 observe and treat the acute mental patients 

 of the metropolitan district in Massachusetts. 

 The hospital will be operated by the Boston 

 State Hospital trustees, who have appointed 

 Dr. E. E. Southard director. The institution 

 is planned to contain one hundred beds and 

 embodies the main features of the modern 

 general hospital as well as special therapeutic 

 features appropriate to mental disease. A 

 wide scope is expected for the out-patient and 

 social-service departments. Other districts in 

 the state may in time develop similar psycho- 

 pathic hospital units, which will take their 

 place alongside the hospitals, asylums and 

 colonies as special clearing-houses and thera- 

 peutic establishments for the acute cases of 

 mental disease in each district. In the psy- 

 chopathic hospitals emphasis will naturally be 

 laid on investigations, both psychic and so- 

 matic, into the nature and causes of mental 

 disease. 



A BILL to make Paris official time coincide 

 with Greenwich time was presented, as we 

 learn from Nature, to the French senate on 

 December 21. The bill was passed by the 

 chamber of deputies several years ago, and 

 has been approved by the senate committee 

 and by the cabinet, so that in all probability 

 it will become law. Paris time is 9m. 21s. 

 ahead of Greenwich time; and upon the day 

 prescribed by the law, the clocks indicating 

 official time in France will be put back by 

 that amount. By the adoption of the change, 

 France will be brought into the international 

 system of standard time reckoning which is 

 now followed in the United States and in 

 most civilized countries. On this system, the 

 hour of each successive fifteen degrees of 



longitude, reckoning from the Greenwich 

 meridian, is used for the standard time ; hence 

 the difference in time in passing from one 

 zone to another is always an exact number of 

 hours. 



At a meeting of the Paris Academy of 

 Medicine held on December 13 the list of the 

 prizes awarded during 1910 was read out by 

 the secretary, M. Weiss. According to the 

 British Medical Journal they include the fol- 

 lowing: The Frangois- Joseph Audiffred prize 

 ($4,800) was not awarded, but sums of $200 

 were granted to MM. Xavier Delore and 

 Andre Chalier, of Lyons, for their work on 

 tuberculosis of bone, by way of encourage- 

 ment; in the same way a sum of $100 was 

 given to M. Jules Lemaire, of Paris, for his 

 researches on the skin reaction to tuberculin, 

 especially in children. The Baillarger prize 

 ($400) was awarded to Dr. Gabriel Doutre- 

 bente, of Tours, for his work on the medical 

 organization of lunatic asylums. The Prix 

 Barbier ($400) was divided between Dr. 

 Maire, of Villejuif, for a memoir on the col- 

 onization of the epileptics of the Seine De- 

 partment, and Dr. E. Sacquepes, of the Val- 

 de-Grace Military Hospital, for his notes on 

 paratyphoid infection. The Boggio prize 

 ($875) was awarded to Dr. Rappin, of Nantes, 

 for his researches on a method of vaccination 

 and immunization against tuberculosis. The 

 Adrien Buisson prize ($2,000) was awarded 

 to Drs. de Beurmann and Gougerot, of Paris, 

 for their work on sporotrichosis; the Camp- 

 bell-Dupierris prize ($450), to Dr. M. Jun- 

 gano, of Naples, for a memoir on the flora of 

 the urinary apparatus, normal and patholog- 

 ical; the Theodore Herpin prize ($600), to Dr. 

 Felix Eose, of Paris, for a work on apraxia; 

 the Huguier prize ($600), to Dr. Salva Mer- 

 cade, of Paris, for an essay on cysts and ab- 

 scesses of the uterus; the Laborie prize 

 ($1,000), to Dr. H. Dominici, of Paris, for his 

 work on the treatment of malignant tumors 

 with radium; the Louis prize ($600), to MM. 

 P. Emile Weil, F. Levy, and G. Boye, for a 

 paper on internal hasmostatic methods; the 

 Meynot prize ($500), to Dr. Louis Balden- 



