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The estate of the late Jacob S, Rogers has 

 been appraised at over $5,600,000. It will be 

 remembered that the greater part of the estate 

 was bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum 

 of Art. 



The Paris Academy of Medicine will occupy 

 its new building on the rue Bonaparte at the 

 beginning of next year. It is reported that the 

 Paris Municipal CoUncil will secure the present 

 building on the rue des Saints-Peres, for the 

 Charite Hospital. 



At the recent Buffalo meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Public Health Association officers were 

 elected as follows : President, Dr. Henry D. 

 Holton, Brattleboro, Vt. ; 1st Vice-President, 

 Dr. Walter Reed, U. S. Army ; 2d Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Dr. Jesus Chico, Guanajuato, Mexico, 

 and Treasurer, Dr. Frank W. Wright, New 

 Haven, Conn. The next meeting will be held 

 in New Orleans. 



The British Medical Journal states that the new 

 Anatomical Department of the University of 

 Glasgow was formally opened by Lord Lister on 

 the afternoon of September 12. The depart- 

 ment had for years been hampered by an un- 

 suitable and insufficient accommodation, and the 

 splendid new buildings now inaugurated have 

 been provided through the munificence of the 

 trustees of the late Mr. J. B. Thomson, the 

 well known shipbuilder. The new buildings 

 include an excellent laboratorj'^ and museum, 

 and for this museum Professor Cleland has pre- 

 sented to the university his fine collection of 

 anatomical specimens. In his address. Lord 

 Lister dwelt on the importance of the study of 

 anatomy, and congratulated Professor Cleland 

 and the university on the excellent accommoda- 

 tion which was now set apart for that study. 

 Amongst the others who took part in the pro- 

 ceedings were Principal Story, Lord Provost 

 Chisholm, Sir William Turner, and Professor 

 Cleland;. and after the speeches the premises 

 were inspected by the company, and afternoon 

 tea was served. 



The new Pathological Laboratory of the 

 University of Oxford will be opened on 

 October 12. Sir William Church, Bart., presi- 

 dent of the Royal College of Physicians of 

 London, Dr. G. Sims Woodhead, professor of 



pathology in the University of Cambridge, and 

 others will take part in the proceedings. 



The plans of Dr. Walter Wyman, surgeon- 

 general of the U. S. marine hospital service, 

 for the establishment of an institute for the 

 study of yellow fever have been approved by 

 the government. 



The Brazilian government has declared that 

 the City of Rio de Janeiro is infected with the 

 bubonic plague. Eleven cases of bubonic 

 plague and four deaths are reported from 

 Naples. 



The Fifth International Congress of Physiol- 

 ogy was opened on September 17, in the physi- 

 ological laboratory of the University of Turin, 

 under the presidency of Professor Angelo 

 Mosso. Sir Michael Foster was elected honor- 

 ary president. Professor Fano, Professor Fred- 

 ericq. Professor Griitzner and Professor Sher- 

 rington were appointed general secretaries. 

 More than 200 physiologists were present, and 

 186 communications were announced. A re 

 ception was given by the members of the 

 Academy of Medicine of Turin and an exhibi- 

 tion of physiological apparatus was opened. 



The opening meeting of the eleventh session 

 of the British Institution of Mining and Metal- 

 lurgy will be held on October 17, in the rooms 

 of the Geological Society, Burlington House. 

 The meetings during the session will, to suit 

 the convenience of the members, be held from 

 5 to 7 p. m., and tea will be provided at 4.30. 

 The annual dinner will be held on the same 

 day. 



The twenty-second annual congress of the 

 French Geographical Society was held recently 

 at Nancy, under the presidency of M. Fournier. 

 There were no less than twenty- two societies 

 represented, of which nineteen were local geo- 

 graphical societies. The Society made a num- 

 ber of recommendations, including the follow- 

 ing : That a colonial exposition be held in 

 Algiers ; that conventional signs be univer- 

 sally adopted in geographical and topo- 

 graphical work ; that the metric system be in- 

 troduced in those colonies where it has not been 

 adopted ; that a decimal division of the quad- 

 rant of a circle be adopted ; that additional 

 canals be constructed in France : that certain 



