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[December, 
NOTES. 
The meeting of the British Medical Association for the year 1881 
will be held at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, to which locality the 
Association has received a cordial invitation from nearly the 
whole of the medical profession in the island. Mr. Benjamin 
Barrow, an old and much-respeCted practitioner in Ryde, has 
been appointed President-EleCt. The Council of the town of 
Ryde have passed a unanimous resolution that the whole of the 
Corporation Buildings, which are numerous and spacious, shall 
be placed at the disposal of the Reception Committee. There 
is every reason to believe that the many beautiful and private 
grounds in the Isle of Wight will be thrown open to the Associ- 
ation. The President will give a garden party to the members 
and residents of the island. A Soiree will be held in the Town 
Hall and adjoining buildings. The Address in Medicine will be 
given by Dr. John Syer Bristowe, London, of St. Thomas’s 
Hospital ; the Address in Surgery will be given by Mr. William 
Dalla Husband, of Bournemouth, Consulting Surgeon to the 
York County Hospital ; and an Address in Obstetric Medicine 
by Dr. John Sinclair Coghill, of Ventnor. Such has been the 
spirit with which the movement has been taken up by the mem- 
bers of the Association and profession in the Isle of Wight and 
Ryde that the meeting bids fair to rival any previous meeting 
both in science and pleasure. The following grants in aid of 
scientific investigation for the year were made, viz. — Dr. McKen- 
drick and Committee, Glasgow, for a continued investigation on 
anaesthetics, £25 ; Dr. Gerald Yeo, London, on the efficacy of 
the antiseptic method in injuries of the brain, £50 ; Dr. Thin, 
London, for a continued investigation on parasitic skin diseases, 
£25 ; Mr. W. North, London, for a continued investigation on 
the relations which exist between nitrogenous Egesta and mus- 
cular work, £50 : Dr. D. J. Hamilton, Edinburgh, an investiga- 
tion on the pathology of the brain, £30 ; Mr. Watson Cheyne, 
London, an investigation on the relation of organisms of septic 
diseases, £25 ; Dr. Augustus Waller, London, an investigation 
on the time and relation of muscular contractions in the human 
body in health and disease, £20 ; Dr. Alexander Ogston, Aber- 
deen, a continued investigation on the relation between BaCteria 
and surgical disease, £10; Dr. Newman, Glasgow, a renewed 
grant in aid of an investigation on the functions of the kidney, 
£10 ; Drs. Braidwood and Vacher, Birkenhead, to illustrate the 
third and final report on the life-history of contagium, £20. 
MM. Couty and De Lacerda (“ Comptes Rendus,” xci., p. 549) 
have made a series of experiments on the absorption of the poison 
