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Some of his ideas about infection, e. g., his 

 " bacillus malarise," his " mierozoon septicum " 

 (wound infections), his " monadines " (rheu- 

 matic affections), turned out to be wrong, and 

 where he struck into some good lead, as in 

 diphtheria or typhoid, he was perhaps for this 

 very reason little inclined to follow it up. 

 Tet, all in all, Klebs was one of the most orig- 

 inal spirits in modern medicine, a man who 

 paid dearly for his unshakable confidence in 

 humanity and his tendency to fight in the 

 open, an opponent who soon forgot differences 

 with his fellows and never cherished ill-will. 

 He will remain where Osier has placed him as 

 a great pioneer. He had a prophetic vision 

 into the future and a fine historic sense, look- 

 ing, as Wordsworth said of the poet, " before 

 and after." His discourse on the history of 

 medicine, delivered at Bern in 1868, may be 

 likened to the little book of Stopford Brooke 

 on Engish literature, as being the most de- 

 lightful primer of the subject (as dissociated 

 from surgery and the specialties) ever written. 

 It deserves to be translated. Klebs was a 

 founder and co-editor of the Correspondenz- 

 tlatt fur schweizerische Aerzte (1871), the 

 Prager medicinische Wochenschrift (1876), 

 and he was, with Naunyn and Buchheim, a 

 founder and for many years co-editor of the 

 important Archiv fur experiment elle Pathol- 

 ogie und Pharmakologie (1872). Naunyn, the 

 distinguished clinician of Strassburg, who was 

 Klebs's colleague at Bern, refers to him in the 

 following terms: 



Ein langes Leben reich an Arbeit und an Un- 

 ruhe. Wie er es sieh selbst geschafEen, so hat er 

 es hingenommen, ohne sich beugen zu lassen, ein 

 aufrechter Mann bis an seinen Tod. Uns, seinen 

 Freunden aus alter Zeit, sind sein offener Sinn, 

 sein spriihender, anregender Geist, sein warmes 

 Herz eine liebe, dankbare Erinnerung. 



F. H. Garrison 



Army Medical Museum 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The annual meeting of the Physical Society 



will be held in Atlanta, 6a., December 29- 



January 3, the society meeting in joint session 



with Section B of the American Association 



for the Advancement of Science. The place 

 of meeting will probably be the Georgia School 

 of Technology. The program of ordinary 

 technical papers will be in charge of the Phys- 

 ical Society, but two, or perhaps three, sessions 

 will be in charge of Section B. These will be 

 devoted to papers of general scientific interest, 

 relating especially to some of the larger prob- 

 lems of geophysics. The program of the meet- 

 ing will include the address of the president 

 of the Physical Society, Professor B. O. 

 Peirce, and that of the retiring vice-president 

 of Section B, Professor A. G. Webster. 



M. Paul Otlet, of Brussels, secretaire de la 

 Union des Congreses Internationales, who rep- 

 resented the Union at the Dundee meeting of 

 the British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, will be present at the Atlanta meet- 

 ing of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science and will address the as- 

 sociation on the subject of the international 

 organization of scientific activities. 



The meeting of the Paleontological Society 

 at Princeton will include a symposium on 

 " The Close of the Cretaceous and Opening of 

 Eocene in North America " with an introduc- 

 tion by Professor H. F. Osborn and Messrs. 

 F. H. Knowlton, T. W. Stanton, W. J. Sin- 

 clair and Barnum Brown leading the dis- 

 cussion. 



For the Australian meeting of the British 

 Association in August next year, under the 

 presidency of Professor W. Bateson, F.E.S., 

 the following presidents of sections have been 

 appointed : 

 Section A (Mathematics and Physics), Professor 



F. T. Trouton. 

 Section B (Chemistry), Professor W. J. Pope. 

 Section C (Geology), Sir T. H. Holland. 

 Section D (Zoology), Professor A. Bendy. 

 Section E (Geography), Sir C. P. Lucas. 

 Section P (Economics), Professor E. C. K. Gon- 



uer. 

 Section G (Engineering), Professor E. G. Goker. 

 Section H (Anthropology), Sir Everard im Thum. 

 Section I (Physiology), Professor C. J. Martin. 

 Section K (Botany), Professor F. O. Bower. 

 Section L (Educational Science), Professor J. 



Perry. 

 Section M (Agriculture), Mr. A. D. Hall. 



