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should be respected, for conducting through 

 thirteen volumes a journal that has always 

 proved interesting, independent and profitable. 

 It is to be hoped that arrangements can be 

 made for the continuation of Natural Science on 

 the same general lines as at present. 



Professor Behring has replied, in the 

 Deutsche Medicinwche Wochenschrift, to those 

 who have criticised his action in securing in the 

 United States a patent for his antitoxin. He 

 states that he is no longer a physician and that 

 it is necessary to adopt business methods to 

 secure money to proceed with his investigations. 

 He further states that his manufacturers will 

 supply the antitoxin in America at the same 

 price as hitherto and in a more reliable form. 

 The question as to how far men of science 

 should patent their discoveries is evidently one 

 of great difficulty, but the case of Professor 

 Behring is complicated by the fact that he was 

 not the sole discoverer of the antitoxin treat- 

 ment of diphtheria. 



The Board of Trustees of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, at their monthly meeting on Octo- 

 ber 5th, appointed a committee to arrange a 

 memorial meeting in honor of the late Provost 

 Pepper. Other institutions with which Dr. 

 Pepper was connected will be invited to take 

 part in the meeting. 



We regret to record the death of M. Gabriel 

 de Mortillet, the eminent anthropologist. He 

 was born at Meylan (Isere) in 1821. After 

 holding positions in the museums of Geneva 

 and elsewhere, he organized the prehistoric 

 section of the Paris Universal Exposition of 

 1867. A year later he was appointed curator 

 of the Museum of Antiquities at St. Germain. 

 He was at one time a member of the French 

 House of Deputies, being an extreme radical. 

 His anthropological publications are numerous 

 and important. 



We regret also to record the death of Mr. 

 William Wilson, a distinguished railway engi- 

 neer, in London on September 28 th ; of Dr. 

 Charles L. Fox, bacteriologist of the Lowell 

 Health Department, and of Dr. David e Toscani, 

 professor of legal medicine in the University of 

 Rome and for twenty years director of the 

 Municipal Office of Hygiene in Rome. 



Provost Harrison, of the University or 

 Pennsylvania, has been elected to the presi- 

 dency of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy, held 

 by the late Dr. William Pepper at the time of 

 his death. 



Dr. F. M. Brauer has been appointed 

 curator of the zoological collections at the 

 Royal Museum in Vienna, and M. Albert Gail- 

 lard, curator of the Lloyd Herbarium of Angers. 



An archseological map of New York State is 

 in preparation for the Regents of the University, 

 and will be published soon. Hundreds of sites 

 are already described and located, but fuller in- 

 formation is desired, especially along the 

 Hudson River, except in Westchester County. 

 Notes should be sent to Rev. W. M. Beau- 

 champ, Baldwinsville, N. Y., as soon as pos- 

 sible, and should include area and character of 

 site, direction and distance from some village or 

 town, on which side of any large stream or 

 pond, and nature of relics. Full accounts will 

 be prized, but brief notes will often suffice. To 

 insure attention promptness is desired. The 

 Iroquois country is well covered, but the Al- 

 gonquin much less adequately. 



The Herbarium of the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum has acquired from Dr. W. H. Forwood 

 the collection of plants made by him in western 

 Wyoming in 1881-2. 



The Sixth International Otological Congress 

 will be held in London at the Hall of the Royal 

 Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, from Au- 

 gust 8th to 12th of next year. The last meet- 

 ing of the Congress was held three years ago at 

 Florence, under the presidency of Professor 

 Grazzi. 



The Central Committee for a Pasteur Insti- 

 tute in India has met at the office of the 

 Director-General, Indian Medical Service, 

 Simla, under the presidency of Surgeon-General 

 Harvey. We learn from the British Medical 

 Journal that it was decided that any attempt to 

 start an institution for the sole purpose of anti- 

 rabic treatment was out of the question, owing 

 to the insufficiency of the funds at the disposal 

 of the Committee, and that the most practical 

 course would be to await the eventual outcome 

 of the proposed Institute of Public Health to be 

 founded by the generosity of the Indian chiefs. 



