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imperial libraries at Vienna, the Hofbibliothek 
and the Private Imperial Library. The latter 
has not hitherto been opened to the public. It 
possesses a famous collection of portraits, said 
to exceed 200,000 in number. 
As many of the fish brought to the New York 
Aquarium have died from the effects of injuries 
received in transit, it has been decided to estab- 
lish a fish hatchery as one of the departments 
of the aquarium. 
Mr. JAMES PERRY has brought suit against 
the American Museum of Natural History to 
recover a balance of $400,612.75 with interest, 
which he alleges to be due him for an arche- 
ological and ethnological collection purchased 
by the Museum. 
Dr. CHARRIN has been appointed director of 
a laboratory of experimental medicine which 
has just been established in the Collége de 
France. 
A BACTERIOLOGICAL Institute has been estab- 
lished at Mons, Belgium, by the Provincial 
Council, which gives it a subsidy of 6,500 fr. 
10,000 fr. have been given to the Institute by an 
anonymous donor. 
THE ninth International Congress of Hygiene 
and Demography will be held at Madrid from 
the 10th to the 17th of April of next year. 
THE Australasian Chamber of Mines in Lon- 
don are making arrangements for an, Inter- 
national Mining Machinery and Metallurgical 
Exhibition to be held in London in 1899, in 
time for the exhibits to be forwarded to the 
Paris Exposition in 1900. 
THE partial cessation of the plague at Bom- 
bay has been followed. by an epidemic of chol- 
era, which seems not to have attracted much 
attention. During the last week for which ad- 
vices have been received there were 220 deaths 
from cholera. There were still during that 
week 18 deaths from the plague. 
THE British Medical Association held its 
sixty-fifth annual meeting at Montreal last 
week, following the program which has been 
already published in this JourNat. At the 
first session, on the afternoon of Tuesday, Au- 
gust 31st, addresses of welcome were made by 
Mr. Wilson Smith, mayor of the city ; by Mr. 
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Adolphus Chapleau, Lieutenant-General of the 
Province of Quebec, and by the Earl of Aber- 
deen, Governor-General of Canada, and Dr. T. 
G. Roddick delivered the President’s address. 
Dr. Roddick, after welcoming the members and 
guests, referred to the history of the Associa- 
tion from its foundation at the initiative of Sir 
Charles Hastings in 1832, and then considered 
especially the Canadian climatic conditions and 
health resorts, and concluded with a review of 
medical education and medical legislation in 
Canada. On the following afternoons, Wednes- 
day, Thursday and Friday, the general ad- 
dresses were given. ‘The address in medicine 
was given by Professor William Osler, of Johns 
Hopkins University, who, it appears, is still a 
Canadian citizen. His address was entitled 
‘British Medicine in Greater Britain,’ and took 
a wide survey, including a comparison of the 
Greek and British races and the influence of the 
former on the latter. The address in surgery 
was by Dr. W. Mitchell Banks, Liverpool, who 
confined his address to the work accomplished 
by military surgeons. The address on public 
medicine, given on Friday afternoon, was by 
Dr. H. M. Biggs. A general address was given 
by Professor Charles Richet, who chose as his 
subject ‘The work of Pasteur and the Modern 
Conception of Medicine.’ During the mornings 
sessions of the Sections were held. The Pro- 
ceedings, to be published in the British Medical 
Journal, will bear witness to many important 
addresses, papers and discussions. At a special 
session of convocation McGill University con- 
ferred the honorary degree of LL.D. on Lord 
Lister, Sir W. Turner and Drs. Broadbent, 
Gaskill, McAllister, Watson Cheyne, Henry 
Barnes and A. G. Wheelhouse. 
THE continuity of national associations for the 
advancement of science is exemplified by the 
fact that the German Association, which meets 
in Brunswick in September, has been invited to 
make an excursion to Pyrmont, where its seven- 
teenth meeting was held in 1839. 
EicuT hundred geologists were in attendance 
at the recent International Geological Congress, 
of whom about two hundred and fifty were Rus- 
sians. No reports of the meetings have been 
cabled to the daily papers, but we hope to pub- 
