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of Paris, for one on atypical forms of cutane- 

 ous tuberculosis; and to Dr. Lalesque, of 

 Arachon, for a memoir on the sea and con- 

 sumptives. The Baillarger prize for £80 for 

 researches on mental diseases was awarded to 

 Dr. Paul Serieux for a series of reports on the 

 treatment of insanity and the organization of 

 asylums. The Adrien-Buisson prize of £420 

 was awarded to MM. E. Leclainche, professor 

 in the Veterinary School of Toulouse, and H. 

 Vallee, professor in the Veterinary School of 

 Alfort, for researches on symptomatic anthrax 

 and gangrenous septicaemia. The Campbell- 

 Dupierris prize of £92 was awarded to Dr. J. 

 Tissot, of Paris, for an experimental investi- 

 gation on the exchange of gases in the arterial 

 blood, the ventilation of the lungs, and arterial 

 pressure during chloroform anaesthesia. The 

 Daudet prize of £40 was awarded to Professor 

 Monprofit of Angers for a memoir on tumors; 

 to the same surgeon also fell the Huguier 

 surgical prize of £120 for essays on the sur- 

 gery of the ovaries and Fallopian tubes, and 

 on salpingitis and ovaritis. The Theodore 

 Herpin (de Geneve) prize of £120 was award- 

 ed to Drs. P. E. Launois and Pierre Roy, of 

 Paris, for a biological study of giants. The 

 Jacquemier obstetrical prize of £68 was award- 

 ed to Dr. Bouchacourt, of Paris, for a series 

 of memoirs on the applications of radiography 

 to midwifery; while Dr. Briquet, of Nancy, 

 gained the Tarnier prize of £120 for a work 

 on tumors of the placenta. The Laborie sur- 

 gical prize of £120 was awarded to Drs. J. 

 Plennequy and R. Loewy, of Paris, for a mono- 

 graph on the treatment of fractures of the 

 long bones. The Louis prize of £120 was 

 awarded to Dr. Victor Balthazar, of Paris, 

 for a memoir on the serumtherapy of typhoid 

 fever, and the Saintour prize of £172 to Drs. 

 Fernand Bezangon and Marcel Labbe for a 

 treatise on ha3matology. A considerable num- 

 her of prizes of smaller value was awarded to 

 various competitors. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that Professor Koch expected to start on a 

 new expedition of scientific exploration on 

 December 17. He will first proceed to Dar 

 es Salam in Gorman West Africa for the 

 purpose of completing the researches on cattle 



plague begun by him in South Africa. These 

 investigations were directed to purely prac- 

 tical objects, while questions of importance 

 from the scientific point of view had to be left 

 untouched. These questions will now in the 

 first instance engage Professor Koch's atten- 

 tion, but he will also study other tropical dis- 

 eases affecting animals and man. As occasion 

 arises he will go to other places suitable for 

 purposes of research. Professor Koch esti- 

 mates that he will be away six months. On 

 December 11 a dinner was given by a com- 

 mittee formed to celebrate the completion of 

 his sixtieth year. 



The report of the Meteorological Council 

 for the year ending March 31, 1904, to the 

 president and council of the Royal Society 

 has been issued as a Blue-book. According to 

 an abstract in the London Times it is stated 

 at the outset that a meeting of the Interna- 

 tional Meteorological Committee was held at 

 Southport during the session of the British 

 Association at that place. Among the sub- 

 jects then raised was the very important ques- 

 tion of the units adopted in different countries 

 for meteorological measurements. In the 

 United Kingdom, its colonies and depend- 

 encies, and in the United States the inch and 

 the Fahrenheit degree have always been used 

 for the measurement of pressure and tempera- 

 ture, whereas in the rest of the world the 

 millimeter and the centigrade degree have 

 been adopted. The council state that if they 

 can obtain a satisfactory consensus of opinion 

 as to the method of measurement which will 

 probably commend itself to the approval of 

 all civilized countries, they are prepared to 

 give effect to proposals for the adoption of 

 that method in this country without delay. 

 After discussing other matters dealt with by 

 the international committee, such as the re- 

 port of the sub-committee on cloud observa- 

 tions and the relation between solar and ter- 

 restrial changes, the council proceed to state 

 that the office has been in communication 

 with the Deutsche-Seewarte and the Meteor- 

 ological Institute of the Netherlands with re- 

 gard to the 7 A.M. service of telegraphic re- 

 ports. In order to obtain reports at that hour 

 from the east coast of England, a special sta- 



