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Indian medicine ; (3) Lj-dio-Trojan medical an- 

 tiquities ; (4) Greek and ' Hellenistic ' medicine ; 

 {5) Ibero-Etruscan and classical Eoman medi- 

 cine ; (6) late Roman medicine, with its Gallo- 

 Eoman offshoots in Rhineland and in Gaul ; 

 (7) Byzantine medicine ; (8) Arabian medicine ; 

 (9) Chinese and Japanese medicine ; (10) Prank- 

 ish, Saxon and its Gothic medical antiquities ; 

 {11) medieval medicine of other Western coun- 

 tries ; (12) the medicine of the Renaissance and 

 modern times up to the end of last ceuturj'. 

 The medicine of Semitic and other nations will 

 also be represented as far as possible, and an 

 appeal is made to antiquarians and collectors 

 throughout the world to assist in making the 

 exhibition as completely representative as pos- 

 sible. The special class of exhibits will com- 

 prise material illustrating the following subjects: 

 (1) Popular medicine, including that of savage 

 peoples and that of civilized peoples. (2) Instru- 

 ments of all kinds. (3) Geographical exhibits. 

 (4) History of orders and associations for the 

 care of the sick ; knights, religious orders, as- 

 sociations of deacons and deaconesses and lay 

 societies. (5) Plague medals, plague masks 

 and amulets against sickness. (6) Illustratious 

 of hospitals, baths, physicians in the sick cham- 

 ber, operations, dressers, dissections. (7) 

 Medals and portraits. (8) Poetical scientists 

 and scientific poets in Germany from the oldest 

 times to the present day, with special reference 

 to Goethe and his relations to Diisseldorf and 

 the Rhine country. (9) History of medicine 

 and the Lower Rhine, in the Duchies of Jiilich, 

 Cleve and Berg, subdivided into exhibitions 

 relating to (a) Laureutius Friesius, (6) Paracel- 

 sus, (c) Weyer, {d) Kortum. Here, again, an 

 appeal is made for portraits, medallions, photo- 

 graphs and illustrated works, among the lat- 

 ter, especially such as are of older date than 

 1580 (receipt books, books about animals, 

 anatomy, distillation, alchemy, astrology, 

 magic, etc.). The exhibitors are not put to any 

 expense, the Exhibition Committee undertaking 

 to pay all freights and the cost of fire assurance. 

 The exhibition, which is to be located in the 

 Kunstgewerbe Museum, will be open in Julj', 

 and exhibits will be received up to September 

 15th. The exhibition closes on September 30th. 

 Any further information that may be desired 



can be obtained by application to Dr. Frau- 

 berger. President of the Exhibition Committee, 

 Kuutsgewerbe Museum, Friedrichsplatz, Dus- 

 seldorf. 



GENERAL. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has elected 

 as correspondent in the section of medicine and 

 surgery. Professor Ernst von Leyden, of Berlin. 

 Thirty two votes were cast for Professor von 

 Leyden and five for Professor Zambaco, of Con- 

 stantinople. 



On the occasion of his 80th birthday Profes- 

 sor Bartholomew Price, Master of Pembroke 

 College, Oxford, has been given a dinner at 

 Queen's College by his former pupils. He in- 

 tends to resign the Sedleian chair of natural 

 philosophy which he has held for forty-five 

 years. 



Dr. Allan P. Smith, a distinguished Balti- 

 more surgeon, one of the original trustees of 

 the Johns Hopkins University, died at Balti- 

 more on July 18th. A. H. B. Beals, professor 

 of philosophy and education in the University 

 of Washington, was killed bj' falling through 

 an open hatch on the steamship ' Arizona ' on 

 July 18th. 



C. L. Sheae and Ernst A. Bessey, recently 

 of the department of botany of the Univer- 

 sity of Nebraska, and now of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, have been 

 sent to northern Colorado by the Division of 

 Agrostologj' to collect grasses and seeds and to 

 secure information in regard to the native and 

 introduced forage plants of that region. 



De. L. a. Bauer is engaged this summer in 

 locating and marking the boundary line between 

 Allegheny and Garrett counties, Maryland. This 

 boundary line calls for a straight line connect- 

 ing two non-intervisible points, 20 miles distant 

 from one another, the one being on the Great 

 Savage Mountain, along the Mason and Dixon 

 line, and the other at the mouth of the Savage 

 River. Upon the completion of this work he 

 will resume the magnetic survey of Maryland. 



Professors H. D. Campbell and D. C. 

 Humphries, of Washington and Lee Univer- 

 sity, are engaged in the work of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey during the present summer. 



