The CHAIRMAN said he would shrink from injecting coagulating substances into a vascular growth like that shown. Perhaps some of the larger vessels of the growth might be ligatured, and then, by means of the galvanic wire, certain portions might be cauterised so as to produce cicatricial tissue. The late Mr. Travers, jun., had made use of such a plan, which succeeded for a while, but after some years the carotid had to be tied, and the patient died before the ligature came away.

Mr. MORRIS had seen the case some eighteen months ago, and suggested that one large branch and the external carotid ought to be tied. By continuous cold, coagulation might be promoted; for instance, by Leiter's tubes, which had recently been used at Middlesex Hospital with success.

Mr. LUCAS thought the connexion with the ophthalmic artery would indicate tying the common carotid; but

The CHAIRMAN thought it would be better, before doing so, to wait till the signs of interference with the ophthalmic artery were more apparent.

Dr. POWELL suggested that the enlarged vessels might be mainly superficial, and that cold might do good.

Mr. LUCAS having briefly replied, the Society adjourned till October.

OBITUARY.

GEORGE ROLLESTON, M.D. Oxon., F.R.S., F.R.C.P. OUR readers will learn, with great regret, that Professor George Rolleston, Linacre Professor of Physiology in the University of Oxford, died at his house in Oxford, on Thursday, the 16th inst., at the early age of fifty-one. Dr. George Rolleston was born at Maltby, Yorkshire, in 1829. He was educated at Gainsborough and Sheffield; and then entered at the University of Oxford, where he took a first class in Classics in 1850, and was elected a Fellow of Pembroke College in 1851. Having chosen the profession of medicine as his career in life, he became a student of St. Bartholomew's Hospital; and in 1854 he took the M.B. degree of Oxford, in 1856 the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of London, in 1857 the M.D. degree of Oxford, and in 1859 was elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians. He went out to Smyrna during the Crimean War as Assistant Physician to the British Civil Hospital; and after his return to England he was appointed, in 1857, Assistant-Physician to the Children's Hospital in London. In the same year, however, he left London for Oxford, to succeed Dr. Acland as Lee's Reader in Anatomy at Christ Church; and he was elected also one of the Physicians to the Radcliffe Infirmary. In 1860 he was appointed to the newly-founded Chair of Anatomy and Physiology as the first Linacre Professor; and this Chair he occupied till the time of his death. When he first settled in Oxford as Lee's Reader in Anatomy, and Keeper of the anatomical and physiological collections in the Christ Church Museum, Dr. Rolleston's intention was to practise medicine, but on his appointment as Linacre Professor he entirely gave up the idea of practice, and devoted himself mainly to the advancement of biological science. He laboured zealously and ably for that object, and, in connexion with it, for the completion and usefulness of the new Oxford Museum, then just built, to which the Radcliffe trustees transferred their scientific library, and the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church allowed their anatomical collection to be moved. Professor Rolleston's most widely known work is his valuable book on "The Forms of Animal Life"; but he was a very active Fellow of several learned societies, and a frequent contributor to the Transactions of the Royal, Linnæan, and Zoological Societies, to the meetings of the British Association, to the Archæologia, etc. 1860, when the British Association met in Oxford, he was greatly interested by the famous discussion between Professors Owen and Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce on the hippocampus in the brain of man as compared with that of the higher apes; and in 1862 he contributed to our pages(a) a learned and able letter, "On the Distinctive Characters of the Brain in Man and in the Anthropomorphous Apes," in reference to a paper read by Professor Owen at the meeting of the British Association in Cambridge that year. When the British Medical Association met in Oxford in 1868, Pro

(a) Medical Times and Gazette, vol. ii. 1862, pages 418, 419, and 420.

In

fessor Rolleston gave the Address in Physiology, and this, (b) while it fully showed his immense industry and wide range of reading, showed also the continued tendency of his work and thought-namely, that, finding there seemed very little or no hope of effectively teaching human anatomy and physiology in Oxford, he gave himself all the more to comparative anatomy. He treated first of "the bearing of certain portions of the very extensive range of subjects comprised under the titles of Anatomy and Physiology upon certain points and problems which come before the attention of the medical practitioner in the course of his actual duties," but next, and much more fully, we think, of "the illustration which some of the conclusions recently come to in biological science cast upon the validity of certain principles which are ordinarily looked upon as authoritative canons for the regulation of the reason in medical investigations." He dwelt at length on the connexion which comparative anatomy had with medicine and surgery, and the bearing which a cultivation of this department of biology has upon the interests of the profession; and showed that any study which, like that of comparative anatomy, forces its disciples into "the knowledge of when a thing is proved and when it is not, is, ipso facto, an ally of real medicine and a deadly enemy of quackery." We may observe that the address concluded with an eloquent peroration on man's aspirations and consciousness of responsibility. Professor Rolleston's Harveian Oration, (c delivered before the Royal College of Physicians in 1873, is a most able and valuable one. He first gave an account of the latest advances in the anatomy and physiology of the circulation; and then vindicated completely the claims of Harvey against Walter Warner the mathematician-one of the many men who have been said to have anticipated the discovery of the circulation. The interest of the Oration was also increased by announcement in it of Rolleston's discovery of the moderator band in the heart of the Australian cassowary-a band existing in the hearts of ungulates, and in a rudimentary state in the human heart.

We cannot enter more fully here into Dr. Rolleston's varied labours. He was a scholar, and a man of literature, and took great interest in many social questions. In 1862 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society; he represented the University of Oxford in the General Medical Council from December, 1874, up to the time of his death; and he served Oxford well and ably in many other ways. But, however great cause his University has to be proud of Professor Rolleston, and however highly his work there may be estimated, we cannot but think that some, at least, of those who knew him in early life may have felt inclined to regret his translation to Oxford, and his appointment to the Linacre Professorship, shutting him off as that did from the practice of the broadest and most catholic of the arts and sciencesthat of medicine. May it not well be believed that had Dr. Rolleston continued to be a London physician, and become a teacher in one of our great metropolitan schools of medicine, his intellectual powers would have still further strengthened and widened in the wider field of work, and that he would have made a still broader and deeper mark on his time?

It had been long known that Dr. Rolleston's state of health was such as to cause great anxiety to his intimate friends; and some months ago he was advised to take rest in Italy from his work. But the hopes of gain from this change were sadly disappointed, and he was with much difficulty brough back to Oxford a very short time since, and died at home a week after his return. He married a niece of Sir Humphry Davy, and leaves a numerous and young family; whilst Mrs. Rolleston lies very gravely ill in her late husband's house unconscious of her loss.

Professor Rolleston was buried on the 20th inst. in Holywell Cemetery. Immediately after the funeral a meeting of his old pupils was held in the Museum, with the object of perpetuating his name by some suitable memorial.

A committee was formed, with power to add to its number; the following gentlemen being elected honorary secretaries : -Dr. C. Mansell-Moullin, 17, George-street, Hanover-square, W., and Dr. Theodore Acland, St. Thomas's Hospital, S.E., London; Mr. E. B. Poulton, M.A., Wykeham House, and Mr. A. T. Thomas, M.A., Anatomical Department, Museum, Oxford.

(b) Medical Times and Gazette, vol. ii. 1868, pages 184-192. (c) Medical Times and Gazette, vol. ii. 1873.

MEDICAL NEWS.

THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.-June 20.-The following gentlemen have passed the final examination for the degree of Bachelor of Medicine:

Mr. W. C. Falls, B.A., M.R.C.S., Merton College and St. George's Hospital; Mr. F. Francis, B.A., M.R.C.S., Jesus College and London Hospital; Mr. D. A. Gresswell, B.A., M.R.C.S., Christ Church and St. Bartholomew's Hospital; Mr. Wansborough Jones, B.A., M.R.C.S., Magdalen College and St. Thomas's Hospital.

THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.-June 20.-The following have passed the first examination for the degree of M.B.::

Class 1.-Goodman, John's; Maudsley, Christ's; G. Niven, Caius; Percival, Trinity.

Class II.-Barber, Caius; Bell, B.A., Pembroke; W. H. Brown, Caius ; Browning, Clare; Bulstrode, Emmanuel; Coombe, Caius: Copeman, Corpus Christi; Dutt, Corpus Christi; E. H. Ellison, John's; England, Caius; Evelyn, Caius; Facey, John's; Fitzgerald, Caius; W. P. Graham, Caius; Harris, Christ's; Haviland, Pembroke; Holloway, Sidney; Ingle, non-collegiate; Jones, Sidney; Malden, B.A., Trinity; M'Conkey, Caius; Rowe, Pembroke; Rutherfoord, Caius; Shann, Downing; Sibley, Pembroke; Skelding, Caius; Sympson, Caius; Tebb, Peterhouse; C. H. Walker, Jesus; Yeoman, Pembroke.

QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY IN IRELAND.-At a meeting of the Senate held on Monday, June 20, in St. Patrick's Hall, Dublin Castle, the following degrees and diplomas were conferred by His Grace the Duke of Leinster, Chancellor of the University:

Degree of Doctor in Medicine.-Henry Harper, of Queen's College, Galway; Michael Jennings, Galway; Walter C. Johnston, Cork; Samuel F. Lougheed, Cork; Daniel Lynch, Cork; Joseph R. M'Donnell, Galway; Jeremiah M'Kenna, Cork; James Minniece, Belfast; G. Mitchell, Cork; D. T. Monteath, Belfast; David J. O'Malley, Galway; George H. Powell, Galway and Cork; John Redmond, Belfast; Archibald C. Robinson, Belfast; Robert L. Rutherford, Galway; David M. Saunders, Cork; William D. Sexton, Cork; James Simpson. Belfast; Henry Sinclair, Cork; John M. Trimble, Belfast; Charles H. Wheeler, Belfast.

Master in Surgery.-R. Alexander, M.D., Belfast; R. Campbell, M.D., Belfast; W. N. Davies, M.D., Belfast and Galway; J. Geraghty, M.D., Cork; J. Mullin, M.D., Galway; J. F. L. Mullin, M.D., Galway; J. A. Oakshott, M.D., Cork; J. B. White, M.D., Belfast; J. F. White, M.D., Galway; E. Horan, M.D., Cork; J. Anderson, M.D., Belfast; D. Lynch, Cork; J. M'Kenna, Cork; C. Minniece, Belfast; G. Mitchell, Cork; G. H. Powell, Galway and Cork; D. M. Saunders, Cork; H. Sinclair, Cork; J. M. Trimble, Belfast; C. H. Wheeler, Belfast.

Diploma in Midwifery.-W. N. Davies, M. D., Belfast and Cork; J. A. Oakshott, M.D., Cork; J. B. White, M.D., Belfast; D. Lynch, Cork; J. M'Kenna, Cork; G. H. Powell, Galway and Cork; J. Redmond, Belfast; D. M. Saunders, Cork; H. Sinclair, Cork; J. M. Trimble, Belfast.

BIRTHS.

DUKE.-On June 20, at The Glen, Lewisham, the wife of John Charles Duke, M.R.C.S., of a son.

EAGER.-On June 14, at the County Asylum, Milton, Suffolk, the wife of Wilson Eager, Medical Superintendent, of a son.

MILLER.-On June 16, at 1, Trinity-place, Windsor, the wife of Richard Shalders Miller, M.B., B.S., Lond., F.R.C.S., of a daughter.

NEWTH.-On June 20, at Ardlin, Hayward's Heath, the wife of A. H. Newth, M.D., of a daughter.

PRINGLE.-On June 14, at Angleton, Bridgend, the wife of H. T. Pringle, M.D., Medical Superintendent of the Glamorgan County Asylum, of a daughter.

SMITH.-On June 18, at 29, Charles-street, Berkeley-square, the wife of Barton Smith, M.D., of a daughter.

YOUNG.-On June 11, at Follett House, Devonshire, the wife of David Young, M.D., of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

CHAMBERS-COLLARD.-On June 15, at Broadstairs, Eber Chambers, M.B., of 9, Wilmington-square, London, to Annie Laurie, fourth daughter of Thomas White Collard, Esq., of The Limes, Broadstairs.

EYRE - BRIGHT.-On June 15, at Forest-hill, John Joseph Eyre, L.K.Q.C.P., L.R.C.S.I., to Fanny Amy Agnes, eldest daughter of John Weaburn, Bright, M.D., of The Glen, Westbourne-road, Forest-hill.

HARRIS - UPTON.-On June 4, at St. Marylebone, Benjamin Harris, M R.C.S., to Mary Anne, second daughter of William Upton, Esq., of Woodfield, Upper Norwood, Surrey.

KAESER-WALTHER.-On June 15, at South Hampstead, Jean Samuel Kaeser, M.D., to Hannah Helen, younger daughter of Philip Walther, Esq., of 67, Avenue-road, Regent's-park.

KNOX-THOMPSON.-On June 16, at Tranmere, Cheshire, Charles Knox, LK Q.C.P.I., M.R.C.8. Eng., of Bay House, Holt Hill, Tranmere, to Emily Kate, second daughter of Robert Thompson, Esq., of Cearns-road, Claughton, Cheshire.

LE QUESNE-LE QUESNE.-On June 13, at St. Helier's, Jersey, Edwin Joseph Le Quesne, L.R.C.P.I., M.R.C.S., of Tring, Herts, to Mary Ann Alice, fourth daughter of W. Le Quesne, Esq., of Balmoral-terrace, Jersey.

NICHOLSON-EDGER.-On June 18, at St. Pancras, Surgeon-Major Edward Nicholson, Army Medical Department, to Sophie Clotilde, third daughter of the late Henry Edger, Esq., and adopted niece of Dr. and Mrs. Congreve, of 17, Mecklenburgh-square.

WOODMAN-NORRIS.-On June 18, at Tottenham, William Robert Woodman, M.D., of Ford House, Exeter, to Mary, widow of the late William Lascelles Norris, M.R.C.S.

DEATHS.

CRISP, WALTER, Surgeon-Major A.M.D., at Aix-les-Bains, Savoy, on June 14, aged 52.

EVANS, SEPTIMUS, Staff-Surgeon R.F., at the destruction of H.M.S. Doterel, off Punta Arena, Straits of Magellan, on April 26. MUSGRAVE, REGINALD VERNON, M.R.C.S., Surgeon in the Peninsula and Oriental Company's service, at Bombay, on May 21, aged 31. NUTTALL, ROBERT KENNEDY, M.D., F.R.C.S., at San Francisco, California, on May 21, aged 66.

ROLLESTON, GEORGE, M.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.P., etc., Linacre Professor of Physiology in the University of Oxford, at Park Grange, Oxford, on June 16, in his 52nd year.

SHARKEY, LEWIS LE HARDY, eldest surviving son of Edmund P. Sharkey, M.D., at Ballinador, Ireland, on June 11, aged 36.

VACANCIES.

In the following list the nature of the office vacant, the qualifications required in the candidate, the person to whom application should be made and the day of election (as far as known) are stated in succession. BOROUGH OF SALFORD, WILTON FEVER HOSPITAL, CROSS-LANE, SALFORD.Resident Medical Officer. Applications and testimonials, endorsed "Resident Medical Officer," to be sent to John Graves, Town Clerk, Town Hall, Salford, not later than June 30.

COTON HILL INSTITUTION FOR THE INSANE.-Assistant Medical Officer. Candidates must be fully qualified. Applications and testimonials to be sent to Dr. Hewson, Coton Hill, Stafford.

DARLINGTON HOSPITAL.-Assistant House-Surgeon (outdoor). Salary £100 per annum. Applications to be sent at once to Chas. Janson, Esq., Darlington.

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, CALEDONIAN-ROAD, N.-Dental Surgeon (For particulars see Advertisement.)

HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST, BROMPTON.Assistant-Physician. (For particulars see Advertisement.)

QUEEN'S HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM.-Casualty Surgeon. Candidates must be Fellows or Members of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Edinburgh, or Dublin. Applications, with testimonials and certificates of registration, to be sent (under cover) to the Secretary of the Hospital, from whom all further information may be obtained, on or before June 29.

ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL.-Two Casualty Physicians. Applications, with testimonials, must be left at the Clerk's office on or before July 8, where particulars of the duties and all necessary information may be obtained on personal application. Candidates must attend the meeting of the Committee which takes place at 11 a.m. on July 14.

ST. PETER'S HOSPITAL FOR STONE AND URINARY DISEASES, 54, BERNERSSTREET, W.-Assistant-Surgeon. (For particulars see Advertisement.) ST. THOMAS UNION, NEAR EXETER.-Medical Officer. (For particulars see Advertisement.)

VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, QUEEN'S-ROAD, CHELSEA, S.W.-
Dental Surgeon. (For particulars see Advertisement.)
WILTS PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUM.-Medical Superintendent. (For parti-
culars see Advertisement.)

UNION AND PAROCHIAL MEDICAL SERVICE.

The area of each district is stated in acres. The population is
computed according to the census of 1871.

RESIGNATIONS.

Alderbury Union.-Mr. F. C. Bennett has resigned the Fifth District:
area 4751; population 5851; salary £60 per annum.

Faringdon Union.-The office of Medical Officer for the Shrivenham
District is vacant: area 14,714; population 2721; salary £70 per annum.
Ormskirk Union. Mr. G. A. Woods has resigned the North Meols
District: area 14,881; population 26,855; salary £60 per annum.

Peterborough Union. Mr. John Clapham has resigned the Thorney
District: area 17,681; population 2099; salary £7 10s. per annum and es.

per case.

APPOINTMENTS.

Bath Union.-Caleb Barrett, F.R.C.S., L.S.A., to the Third District.
St. Mary (Islington) Parish.-John Borland, M.B., C.M. Glasg., to the
St. Peter's West District,

Shardlow Union.-William Massey, L.R.C.P. Edin., M.R.C.S. Eng., to the
Castle Donington District.

South Molton Union.-Frederick Charles Berry, M.B. and B.Ch. Dub., to
the Twelfth District.
Tewkesbury Union.-Joseph H. Allard, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Edin.,
L.F.P.& S. Glasg., to the Forthampton District.

THE WARREN TRIENNIAL PRIZE.-The Warren Prize
Committee offer a premium of $400 for the best dissertation
worthy of a prize, upon the following subject:-" Chronic
Bright's Disease (Parenchymatous and Interstitial Nephritis).
The Nature and Mutual Relations of the Derangements in the
Circulatory and Secretory Organs." Dissertations should be
forwarded to the Resident Physician, Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston, on or before February 1, 1883.

EPITHELIAL CANCER OF THE TONGUE.-Mr. Walter
Whitehead, of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, is en-
deavouring to collect and collate statistics bearing on epi-
thelial cancer of the tongue, with the intention of utilising
them in a paper to be read at the meeting of the Interna-
tional Congress in August. He will be grateful to any
medical man who will take the trouble to send him parti-
culars of all cases of the disease treated by himself "during
as many of the last ten years as possible, and will send
printed forms of the particulars required to any medical
men who will be good enough to apply for them. This is
one of the new forms of utilising experience.

Operations at University College, 2 p.m.; St. Mary's, 11 p.m.; Middlesex,
1 p.m.; London, 2 p.m.; St. Bartholomew's, 1 p.m.; Great Northern,
2 p.m.; Samaritan, 24 p.m.; King's College (by Mr. Lister), 2 p.m.;
Royal London Ophthalmic, 11 a.m.; Royal Westminster Ophthalmic,
14 p.m.; St. Thomas's, 1 p.m.; St. Peter's Hospital for Stone, 2 p.m.;
National Orthopedic, Great Portland-street. 10 a.m.
SOCIETY OF ARTS, 4 p.m. Annual General Meeting.

Cities and boroughs
(Municipal boun-
daries except for
London.)

London
Brighton
Portsmouth
Norwich
Plymouth
Bristol

Wolverhampton
Birmingham

Leicester
Nottingham
Liverpool
Manchester
Salford
Oldham

Bradford
Leeds
Sheffield
Hull

200

Temperature

of Air (Fahr.)

Estimated Population to

middle of the year 1881.

Persons to an Acre.
(1881.)

Births Registered during
the week ending June 18.

Deaths Registered during
the week ending June 18.

Highest during
the Week.
Lowest during
the Week.

3829751 50-8 2480
107984 45'9

1403
61
84

128335 28'6

88038 11'8

65

78-6 47-060-4

Temp.
of Air

Rain

(Cent.)

Fall.

Weekly Mean of

Daily Mean

Values.

In Inches.

In Centimetres.

15-78 0.57 1:45

39 71-0 46-0 57-5 14-17 1-11 282
42

13-72 0-35 0-89
12-95 0-86 2-18
12-95 0-50 1-27
12 67 060 152

39 70-2 45-257-7 14-280-85 0-99
63 71-9 43 0 56-9 13-83 0-260-66
255 67-4 47-053-6 12-01 0-300-76

75262 54'0 56
207140 46 5 151
75934 22:4 68
402296 47.9 296
123120 38.5 123
188C35 18.9 137
553988 106-3 398
841269 79-5 308 141
177760 344 165 70
112176 24.0 81 45
184037 25.5 131 63 65 4 43-4 55 0 12-78 0-59 1:50
310490 14-4 220 102 67 0 45 0 55 7 13 17 0.51 1-30
285621 14.5 217 107 70-0 45-056-4 13-55 0-58 1-47
58 72-0 41-056-3 13:50 0-59 1-50
46 62-0 45 0 52-3 11-28 0'50 1-27
58

155161 42.7 96
Sunderland
116753 42-2 89
Newcastle-on-Tyne 145675 27'1 113
Total of 20 large
English Towns... 7608775 380 5334 283974-0 41-0 56-0 13-33 10551-40

These figures are the numbers enumerated (but subject to revision) in
April last, raised to the middle of 1881 by the addition of a quarter of a
year's increase, calculated at the rate that prevailed between 1871 and 1881.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean reading
of the barometer last week was 29.80 in. The highest read-
ing was 29.90 in. on Sunday morning, and the lowest 29.67 in.
by the end of the week.

NOTES, QUERIES, AND REPLIES.

He that questioneth much shall learn much.-Bacon.

St. Thomas's Hospital.-We are sorry the mistake occurred. Perhaps on
another occasion it would be better for the authorities to send their
elaborate scheme after rather than before the events referred to.
The Land of Quacks.-The Japan Weekly Mail of April 16 states that
there are 65,200 doctors practising in Japan, of whom only 504 have
legitimate diplomas, and of these latter fifty are denizens of Tokiyó. It
follows, therefore, that there are 64,696 individuals playing fast and
loose with the lives of their fellow-creatures throughout the country-
that is to say, an average of one quack to 470 quacked.
Boarding-out Pauper Children.-Mr. Henley, the Local Government Board
Inspector for the Birmingham district, in addressing the Board of
Guardians last week in reference to an inspection he had just made of
the Marston-green Homes, stated that he had not been an advocate for
the establishment of these Homes, but he confessed he was extremely
gratified with the extraordinary change which had taken place in the
physical appearance of the children as compared with their condition
when in the workhouse. They not only had the appearance of being
physically stronger, but there was an entire absence of that fear in the
children when speaking to anyone, which bespoke their being brought
up as mere machines.

Ralph B. S., Bayswater.-By the recent orders and instructions, medical
officers serving in India who may wish to exchange to England under
the provisions of General Order 43, of 1881, will be required to forfeit
their pay for the interval between their departure and the arrival of
their successors.
Paterfamilias.-No doubt the Scotch universities are popular institutions.
The percentage of university students to the population is larger in
Scotland than elsewhere, being one in 700; or more correctly speaking-
deducting the imported students who come from England, Ireland,
India, and the colonies to study medicine in the Scotch university
schools-one in 800. In England the proportion of university students
to population is one to about 4500; in the German Empire one to 1600. But
it is to be remembered that the universities of Scotland differ greatly
from the universities of England as to expense and in many other ways.
A Provincial Fellow.-At the meeting of Fellows last year the greatest
number of votes was polled by Mr. Cadge, of Norwich, viz., 174, with
fourteen plumpers. Mr. Bryant, of London, had the largest number of
plumpers, viz., fifteen.

Octogenarians.-The obituary of the Times of the 21st inst. contained the
deaths of just half a score of octogenarians, viz., seven gentlemen and
three ladies whose united ages amounted to 836 years, giving an average
of eighty-three years and six months to each. The oldest was a gentle-
man of eighty-nine, the youngest of the same sex being eighty-one
years of age; of the ladies the oldest was eighty-six, and the youngest
also eighty-one years of age.

" oleo-

Oleo-margarine.-Mr. Archibald considers the manufacture of
margarine" as legitimate a business, if properly conducted, as that of
milling wheat, and when extracted from pure sweet beef-fat by the
Mège process, that the product is closely allied to sweet dairy-butter in
every essential quality. It is admitted, however, that the manufacture is
very liable to abuses. Mr. Archibald calculates that the cattle slaughtered
annually in the United States yield sufficient fat to make more than five
hundred million pounds of oleo-margarine. The shipments are chiefly
to Holland-the Dutch excel in the art of manufacturing it into
"butterine," which can be landed in the London market in forty-eight
hours. There are stated to be over one hundred butterine factories
now working in Holland, and the business is rapidly increasing. Good
butterine, Mr. Archibald says, is considered to be wholesome, and far
preferable to bad butter.

Meteorologist.-The American Government expedition to establish a meteo-
rological station at Lady Franklin Bay sailed from Baltimore for St.
John's on the 14th inst., where a steamer will take the party to their
destination. The station is one of a number to be established in high
northern altitudes, and the co-operation of England, Denmark, Holland,
Germany, and Austria is assured in the work.

Census Returns: Australian Colonies.-The recent census returns for
Victoria show the population of the colony to be 70,000 below the
estimated number. Approximate returns for New South Wales give the
population of the colony at 750,000, being an increase of 246,000 in the
last ten years. The returns for South Australia show a population of
277,000, those for Tasmania 116,000, and for New Zealand 489,561.
Vaccination: An Irreconcilable Opponent.-Mr. Peter Taylor, M.P., has a
motion on the notice paper in the House of Commons, for the discussion
of which no day has yet been fixed, to the effect that in the present
unsettled condition of medical opinion in regard to the safety of using
ordinary humanised lymph, as also the safety, effectiveness, and prac-
ticability of the use of animal vaccine, it is, in the opinion of the House,
inexpedient and unjust to enforce vaccination under penalties upon
those who regard it as unadvisable or dangerous.

A Student.-What Miss Lonsdale said was, that doctors are no better
judges of nursing than nurses are of drugs.

The Homeopathic Medical Officer of Health.-We learn from a daily paper
that a crowded and tumultuous meeting was held last week at Hastings
to take into consideration the recent appointment of the medical officer
of health, a homoeopathist, but at no time could the speakers obtain a
hearing, and the meeting was eventually dissolved.

Open Spaces.-The Open Spaces Committee of the Kyrle Society is enrolling
a body of associates, each of whom will watch for the Society, in his or
her district, reporting all cases of threatened enclosure of commons or
stoppage of footpaths. The names of these associates are to be known to
the Committee only.

Sophistication in Paris.-The Paris Municipal Council founded some time
ago a laboratory, where articles of food could be sent for analysis. The
May report of the provisions of every kind tested shows, inter alia, that
of 231 samples of wine, 184 were condemned, only 6 being returned as
"good"; and of milk, 83 out of 105 samples were worthless. On the
other hand, 5 out of 7 specimens of coffee and tea were approved, and
out of 26 samples of bread and pastry 19 passed the test. A further
examination of painted toys showed a lamentable want of wholesome-
ness. Out of 38 specimens not fewer than 84 were registered as "bad."
COMMUNICATIONS have been received from-

Dr. WOLFE, Glasgow; THE REGISTRAR OF THE APOTHECARIES' HALL>
London; Mr. JOHN CROFT, London; Mr. CHARLES HAWKINS, London;
Mr. WALTER WHITEHEAD, Manchester; Dr. WILLOUGHBY, London
Dr. C. J. CULLINGWORTH, Manchester; Mr. J. CHATTO, London; Dr.
MANSELL-MOULLIN, Oxford; Dr. COLLINS WARREN, Boston; Dr.
AVELING, London; THE SECRETARY OF THE SWEDENBORG SOCIETY,
London; Dr. EDWARD BALLARD, London; Mr. J. H. WHATFORD,
Eastbourne; Dr. CRICHTON BROWNE, London; Dr. WOLFENDEN, London;
Dr. GILLESPIE, London; Mr. J. 8. WOOD, London; Mr. S. G. GOODRICH,
London; THE HONORARY SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL
MEDICAL CONGRESS, London; Messrs. F. A. GRAEBERT AND Co.,
London; THE SECRETARY OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY, London;
Dr. A. W. BARCLAY, London; THE SECRETARY OF THE ROYAL INSTI-
TUTION, London; THE SECRETARY OF BRILL'S SEA-WATER Baths,
London; THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL AND SANI-
TAKY EXHIBITION, London; THE SECRETARY OF THE SANITARY
INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN.

BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED-

Annual Report of the Newcastle-on-Tyne Infirmary for the Year ending
March 31, 1881-Digestive Ferments, by Wm. Roberts, M.D., F.R.S.-
Giornale Internazionale delle Scienze Mediche, fasc. 2, 3, 4-Report of
the Deptford Hospital for the Year 1880-Annual Report of the London
Temperance Hospital.

PERIODICALS AND NEWSPAPERS RECEIVED-
Lancet-British Medical Journal-Medical Press and Circular-Ber-
liner Klinische Wochenschrift-Centralblatt für Chirurgie-Gazette
des Hopitaux-Gazette Médicale-Le Progrès Médical-Bulletin de
l'Académie de Médecine-Pharmaceutical Journal-Wiener Medizinische
Wochenschrift-Centralblatt für die Medizinischen Wissenschaften-
Revue Médicale-Gazette Hebdomadaire-National Board of Health
Bulletin, Washington-Nature-Occasional Notes-Deutsche Medicinal-
Zeitung Boston Medical and Surgical Journal-Louisville Medical
News-Students' Journal and Hospital Gazette-Chemist and Druggist
-Canadian Journal of Medical Science-Canada Lancet-Journal of
the British Dental Association-Revista de Medicina-Philadelphia
Medical Times-Hants and Surrey Times, May 21-The American-
Manchester Guardian, June 30-Monthly Index-Detroit Lancet.

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CONGRESS.-The sum of ten
guineas has been voted by the South Wales and Monmouth-
shire Branch of the British Medical Association to the funds
of the Congress. On Wednesday, at 5 p.m., a meeting of
the General Committee of the Congress, at which Sir. W.
Jenner presided, took place, and a report was received con-
cerning the preparations made up to this time by the
Executive and Reception Committees. In the evening a
soirée was given to members of the General Committee by
Sir J. Paget, at 1, Harewood-place.

INCREASE OF MYOPIA IN FRENCH SCHOOLS.-For a
long time past it has been observed that myopia is deve-
loped in the Paris schools in consequence of the ill adapta-
tion of the desks and seats and the faulty distribution of
light. The architects have done a good deal to remedy the
defects, but it is of importance that certain practical rules,
based on sound principles, should be inculcated. To this
end the Minister of Public Instruction has just nominated
a commission, with the object of its investigating the in-
fluence of the material conditions of school arrangements on
the production of myopia and of the measures which should
be opposed to them. The commission, which is to be pre-
sided over by Prof. Gavarret, General Inspector of Schools,
comprises the following members:-MM. Javal, Panas,
Gariel, and Perrin (a member of the Army Conseil de Santé);
M. Montmahan, Inspector-General of Primary Education;
MM. Masson and Hachette, publishers; and M. Gauthier-
Villars, a printer.—Union Méd., June 14.

Adcock, Staff Surgeon Daniel Robert, death of, 84
Adulteration, municipal establishment for detect-
ing, at Paris, 575

Afghanistan, notes from, 195

war in, death-rates of the, 671
Ainhum, Dr. Da Silva Lima on, notice, 603
Airey, Dr. reports on outbreaks of diphtheria, 466
report on enteric fever in Lancashire, 546
Alcohol, amblyopia from, discussion on, 356
Alkali Works Bill, provisions of the, 243, 247, 652
Alty, Mr. John Daniel, death of, 228
Amaurosis from lesion of the eyebrow, Dr. De
Luna on, 414

Amblyopia, tobacco-and-alcoholic, discussion on,

356

general, the ophthalmoscope in, 328

in young children, Dr. Jacobi on, 385
of the miners of the St. Gothard, 191, 563
Anaesthetics, the limit of danger in, Prof. P. Bert
on, 355

Anatomical demonstrations on the living subject,
661

Anatomy and Physiology, Witkowski's Movable
Atlas, notice, 49

Andrews (St.) University, pass-list of the, 497
Angina pectoris, the pathology of, Dr. Moxon on,
€68

Antiseptic apparatus, 555

treatment, the "true" Listerian, 73
Prof. Verneuil on, 602

modifications of the, by Prof. Billroth, 304
value of spray in, Dr. Mikulicz on the,
276, 302

effects of, on ligatures, 225
abdominal sections, Mr. Thornton on, 109
vide Ovariotomy

osteotomy, fatal case of, Mr. Gould on a, 638
solution, Dr. Lucas-Championnière's. 301
Aneurism, axillary, antiseptic ligature of the sub-

clavian in, Mr. McCarthy's case of, 226
aortic, utility of the laryngoscope in, Dr.
Whipham's case of, 632
Anorexia nervosa, Dr. Dowse's case of, 683
Aorta, aneurism of the, the laryngoscope in, €32
spontaneous rupture of the, case of, 80
traumatic rupture of the, 252

insufficiency and triple second sound of, Prof.
Drasche on, 272

Aphonia, with tumour of the brain, Dr. Haber-
shon's case of, 20

Apothecaries' Society, pass-lists of the, 28, 112,
167, 200, 227, 256, 282, 308, 365, 391, 418, 445,
472, 498, 529, 581, 608, 635, 663, 690, 711
Apothecary in 1691, the day-book of an, Dr. Shea
on, 683

Army Medical Service, successful candidates for
the, 271

results of examinations for the, in 1881, 478
vide Indian
Arteries, condition of, after ligature, Mr. Treves
on the, 225

spasm of, as a cause of convulsive diseases,
Dr. Moxon on, 639
Arteritis, embolic, with perforation, case of, 495
progressive painful, Mr. Morgan's case of, 496
Arthritic diathesis, Mr. Hutchinson on the study
of the, 1

Ashford, Mr. John Butler, death of, 365
Askwith, Dr. Robert, death of, 168
Asphyxia, treatment of, M. Le Bon on the, 459
of infants, revival in, by blowing, 26
by hot-baths, 169

INDEX.

Association of Surgeons practising Dental Sur-
gery, notices of meetings of the, 52, 279,
443, 579

the British Medical, and the new Medical
Bill, 215, 217, 239

memorial of, on hospital reform, 677
the Irish Medical, meeting of the, 660
Avent, Mr. Nicholas, death of, 282

B

Ballard, Dr. note on his diarrhoea inquiry, 708
Bantock, Dr. on hyperpyrexia after Listerian
ovariotomy, 51

Barclay, Dr., Harveian Oration, 693

Barker, Mr. on nephrectomy by lumbar section,

526

Barlow, Dr. case of Addison's disease, 124

on a case of scarlatinal nephritis and menin-
gitis, 648

Barnes, Dr. on missed labour, 380, 495

Dr. Fancourt, A German-English Dictionary
of Words and Terms used in Medicine, etc.,
review, 412

protest of Dr. Cutter against, 412
Bartholomew's (St.) Hospital, income of, 573
Bartley, Surgeon Dr. John Metge, death of, 228
Barwell, Mr. case of unilateral hypertrophy of
the head, 361

on ox-aorta and catgut ligatures, 368

on a case of excision of the whole tongue, 388
Bayes, Mr. Frederick Thomas, death of, 557
Beaconsfield, the Earl of, question of Drs. Quain
and Kidd's consultation on, 430
Dr. J. Sullivan on the case of, 441

Dr. Kidd's explanatory letters concerning,
441, 577

death of, 464

Beard, Dr. on English and German lunatic
asylums, 20

Beatson, Mr. Materials of the Antiseptic Method,
notice, 165

Belgian Academy of Medicine, prize questions of
the, 580

Bell and Redwood's Progress of Pharmacy, notice,

49

Belladonna in capillary bronchitis, Dr. March on,

320

Beri-beri in Singapore and Japan, 621

Bert, Prof. Paul, on the limits of danger in anæs-
thetics, 355

Berth (ship's), self-levelling, Hutson's, 27
Besnier's, Dr. E. the Paris hospital mortality
returns, 684

Bethnal-green, sanitary state of, 15
Bicycles, deformity produced by, 221

on, 26

circulation in the, Dr. Moxon on the, 340, 370
the fourth ventricle of the, 370

effects of atmospheric pressure on the circula-
tion of the, Dr. Moxon on the, 372
optic neuritis in disease of the, Dr. Hugh-
lings-Jackson on, 311

tumour of the, with aphasia, Dr. Habershon's
case of, 21

congestion of the, Dr. Moxon on, 451, 533
Breast, Tumours of the, Dr. Gross on, review, 469
cancer of the, statistics of, 43

Drs. Török and Wittelshöfer on statistics
of, 348

Mr. Morris's cases of, 294, 320, 346

after eczema of nipple, Dr. Thin's case
of, 389

duct, cancer of, Dr. Thin on, 334
recurrent sarcoma of, case of, 346

recurrent tumour of, treated by caustics, Mr.
Cullingworth's case of, 376

quiescent scirrhus of, Mr. Teale's case of, 358
cystic degeneration of, case of, 389
Breus, Dr. on myxoma fibrosum of the placenta,

403

Brierley, Dr. on pleuritic effusions, 538, 564
Bright's disease, Dr. Southey's Lumleian Lec-
tures on, 421, 514, 559, 585, 612
British Medical Association, vide Association
Bronchitis, capillary, Dr. March on belladonna
in, 320

Bronzing, case of, Dr. Crocker on a, 389
Brown Institution, report on the, 408
Brown-Séquard, Prof. effects of local application
of chloroform and chloral, 163

effects of elongation of the sciatic nerve, 250
Browning, Mr. on the death-rate of children, 324
Buck, Mr. John, death of, 56
Buckland, Mr. Francis Trevelyan, obituary notice
of, 27

Buchanan, Dr. memorandum of, on vaccination
and small-pox, 675
Building by-laws, uses and abuses of, 437

Exhibition, report on the sanitary aspect of
the, 548
Buller, Dr. disease of mastoid cells, 257
Burfoot, Mr. Edward Wade, death of, 84
Burn, Inspector-General Dr. George, death of, 282
Burns, treatment of, by soap-suds, 444
Burroughs, Mr. offer of emulsion of cod-liver oil,

398
Burton. Dr. Handbook for Midwives, notice, 603

Billroth on the, 78

cases of, 377

Bigsby, Dr. J. J. death of, 228
Billroth, Prof. on lithotripsy and poisoning by
chlorate of potash, 78

cases of excision of the pylorus by, 274, 345,
877, 425, 626

modification of the antiseptic treatment by,
804

Binz, Prof. on the action of nitrites, 71

211

Busey, Dr. on the cicatrices of pregnancy, 657

с

Cabiadis, Dr. report on the plague in Russia, 4,
32, 119

Cafein, citrate of, in melancholia, 659
Cahill, Dr. Thomas, obituary notice of, 199

Dr. William, death of, 664

Bishop, Mr. Henry, death of, 664
Bladder, absorption powers of the, 651

villous growth from the, Mr. Colley's case
of, 21

rupture of the, Mr. Hussey's case of, 345
ectopion, plastic operation for, in a child, 540
tapping above the pubes, case of, 674
formula in inflammation of the, 549
Blood, exsiccated, preparation of, 197

defibrinated, preparation of, 284
Blyth, Mr. on typhoid fever in Marylebone, 75
Bogg, Dr. T. Wemyss, death of, 256
Bogus diplomas, signification of the term, 258
Mr. Chester and "Old Fogey" on, 284
Mr. O'Leary on, 310

Buchanan's confession concerning, 521
Bond, Mr. Edward Thornley, death of, 581
Books, Reviews and Notices of, 18, 49, 80, 108,

134, 165, 197, 251, 277, 331, 356, 886, 412, 44C,
469, 550, 603, 631, 649, 657, 634
Boulton, Mr. case of imperforate vagina, 495
Bourneville and Olier, Drs. on bromide of ethyl in
epilepsy, 402

Boursier, Dr. Tumeurs du Corps Thyroide, notice,

331

Calcutta, the tanks and, wells of, Dr. McLeod on,

244

hospitals, economics of the, 39

Cambridge University, report on preliminary
medical studies, 243
pass-list, 711

Cancer, the local origin of, Mr. Hutchinson on, 92
vide Breast, Pancreas, Rectum, Stomach
Candahar, letter from, 105
Caoutchouc instruments, preservation of elasticity
of, 448

Carbolic acid, perfumed, 547

Carpenter, Dr. A. on notification of infectious
diseases, 135

Carr, Dr. William Ward, death of, 581
Carrington, Dr., Manual of Dissections, notice,

277

Carter, Mr. Brudenell, Eyesight, Good and Bad,
review, 18

lectures of, on colour-blindness, 654
Cataract, opening the capsule in, operations for,
Mr. Watson on, 515
Catgut, vide Ligatures
Cattlin, Mr. imperfections of the Dentists Act, 180
"Caveat emptor," 667

Cazin, Dr. on examining for hip-joint disease by
the rectum, 530