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read in the Pathology Section on Thursday, instead of at the Section 
of Public Medicine. They were most interesting contributions to 
comparative pathology. Here, also, after the profound and eloquent 
address of the President of the Section, Sir James Paget, on diseases 
of low organisms, Professor Lister opened a discussion on Micro- 
Organisms ; their relation to disease , in which he touched on the recent 
observations of French, German, and Italian workers on Bacteria, 
such as those of anthrax and fowl cholera. A fowl, upon which the 
method of “ anthrax vaccination,” recently discovered by Pasteur, had 
been tried by the learned savant himself, was exhibited. Drs. Aiken and 
Bell, among others, joined in the discussion, and the learned Professor 
Toussaint, of Toulouse, whose recent work constituted the basis of the 
greater part of Lister’s remarks, addressed a few words in French to the 
meeting. Dr. Greenfield stated the results of the work in this direc¬ 
tion at the Brown Institution. 
Among other interesting papers to be brought forward in this Section, 
there were announced: 
Julius Dreschfield, M.D.— The Histological relations of some forms 
of Sarcoma and Carcinoma. 
D. J. Hamilton, M.D.— A brief resume of pathological researches on 
Tubercle and allied affections of the Ltcngs. 
Frederick Eve, F.R.C.S.— Relation of Epithelium to Chronic Irrita¬ 
tion. 
In Section A , Medicine , under the presidency of Dr. Paget, of Cam¬ 
bridge ; Drs. Marcet, McCall Anderson, Ferrier, Sturges, Mahomed, and 
Tibbets, were announced as authors of papers. 
In Section B, Surgery , William S. Savory, of London, President ; Sir 
Henry Thompson drew attention to Lithotomy at a single sitting; a 
Subsection of Otology was also held. 
In Section C, Obstetric Medicine ,]Dr. Playfair, of London, President; 
papers were announced from Drs. Matthews Duncan, Grailv Hewitt, 
Mapother, Macnaughton Jones, and Lawson Tait. 
In Section H, Ophthalmology , President, Dr. Bowman, of London ; 
papers were announced from Messrs. Hutchinson, Power, Pridgin Teale, 
Critchett, and Fuchs. 
Section E. Psychology, was presided over by Dr. Crighton Browne, of 
London. 
In the Physiology Section, F, under the Presidency of Prof. Michael 
Foster, in the absence of Dr. Rutherford, some most excellent work 
was done. The following were some of the communications : 
1. Dr. J. Hamilton, M.D.— Demonstration of Microscopic Sections of 
the entire Brain, by means of the oxyhydrogen light. 
2. Prof. Ranvier. — Demonstration of the mode of termination of 
nerves in Epithelium and Muscles. 
3. Prof. Marcy. — On Comparative Studies on the pulsation of the two 
ventricles and Arterial Pulse. 
4. Dr. Gowers.— Clinical Measurement of the Corpuscles and Heemo- 
olobin of the Blood. 
5. Prof. Gamgee. — Experiments with the Fibrine Ferment. 
6. Prof. Preyer, of Jena. — Discussion on Sleep and Hypnotism. 
7. Dr. Browx\-Sequard. — The effects produced by various lesions of 
the Base of the Brain, on the excitability of the so-called motor centres. 
8. Drs. Ferrier and Yeo on the Cerebral Visual Centres. 
This, therefore, proved one of the most interesting of the Sections. 
The address in physiology, by Dr. Michael Foster, on the Friday, was 
most eloquent and masterly. Addresses were read also in Medicine and 
