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10,000 francs was divided among the four pupils of Pasteur, M. 
= Strauss, Roux, Nocard and Thuillier, who composed the com- 
_ mission which in the past year studied the cholera on the spot in 
. Egypt. The last gentleman fell a victim to his devotion to sci- 
ence and humanity. 
| The “ Prix Godard” was decreed to Dr. Guelliot for his mono- 
_ graph on the “ Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology of the Ves- 
| iculæ Seminales.” Honorable mention was made of the wor 
_ of Dr. Desnos on lithotrity. i 
The “ Prix Chaussier” was given to Dr. Legrand du Saulle for 
his “ Medico-legal studies of epileptic and hysterical subjects.” 
These four volumes, both in France and abroad, are constantly 
-~ Cited as authority upon the legal aspects of emotional insanity. 
Honorable mention was made of the remarkable work of M. 
A. Layet on the “ Hygiene and maladies of the Peasantry” and 
to M. A. Luton for his work on special and general therapeutics. 
The “ Prix Lallemand” was not awarded, but its value was 
divided between M. B. Ball, author of ‘‘ Lessons on Mental Dis- 
eases,” and M. Aug: Voisin for his “Clinical lessons on mental 
and nervous Maladies.” 
The Montyon prize in physiology was awarded to Dr. P. Reyard 
for kis experimental researches om the pathological variations in 
respiratory combustion; and the “ Prix Lacaze” was given to M. 
Balbiani for the total of his works upon embryogeny and general. 
physiology during the last twenty years. 
The “Prix Penaud,” for zrostation, was parted into three 
equal portions, and given to MM. Gaston Tissandier, Duroy de 
Bruignac and V. Tatin. 
Among the general prizes the “ Prix Tremont ” was decreed 
. J. Morin for his mechanical inventions; the Gegner prize 
was divided between MM. Ed. Lescarbault and Ch. Brame; the 
“Prix Petit d’Ormoy” (mathematical sciences) was given to M 
on Darboux; the “Prix Petit d’Ormoy” (natural sciences) 
was unanimously awarded to M. Henri Filhol for his researches 
among the Tertiary mammals of France; and medals of honor 
from the Petit d’Ormoy funds were given to the various members: 
of the Talisman exploring expedition, and to those who, in err 
ormed part of the French expedition to Cape Horn in the 
Romanche. { 
The “ Prix Laplace ” is each year the prize of the first scholar 
of the Ecole Polytechnique, and thus fell to M. A. C. Rateau. 
—We have received from Dr. Henry C. Chapman an interesting 
brochure entitled “ History of the Circulation of the Blood,” in 
Which he concludes that the discovery of the circulation of the 
blood belong to no one age, country or person. Its history, ex- 
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