cut off each end to get plain surfaces at 90° to long axis of nerve. The upper end was pulled down in order to lengthen it, and the ends were brought together by four stitches of very fine silk passed through the sheath; the forearm and hand were fixed on a splint. On August 15 he was discharged; sensibility had returned in the parts before numb, except the last phalanges of index and middle fingers. Later, further improvement took place.

Mr. HOWARD MARSH said there had been a similar case at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, which he hoped would soon be reported to the Society. The nerve had been injured for some time, but after bringing its ends together its function began to return within twenty-four hours.

Mr. HULKE, in reply to a question by Mr. Marsh, said the nerve had been stretched in pulling down, and that he used a particularly fine silk suture, called three-ply China twist, which he had got from Pearsall's, in Cheapside.

The PRESIDENT remarked that the case was of interest to the physician as illustrating the fact that pain always returned after simple section of a nerve for its relief.

CASE OF DISTURBED NUTRITION, WITH SUPPURATION AND EXFOLIATION OF THE NAILS.

Dr. A. SANGSTER read a paper as above. E. K., aged seven, came under observation October 16, 1879. There was a history of "chest complaints" on the mother's side. The mother looked healthy; she had had seven children, three of whom had "lumps in the throat"; three died in infancy. The patient was a delicate-looking little girl. Her mother brought her to the hospital for the affection of the nails and ulcerative stomatitis. The terminal phalanx of the middle finger of the left hand was about twice its natural size, hot, red, and very painful, so that the child held the finger with the other hand in a vertical position, to keep it from being jarred. The nail was greenishblack, curved talon-wise, and raised from its bed, from which oozed a very foetid purulent discharge. The skin in the immediate neighbourhood was ulcerating. The other nails showed changes. Some were ridged transversely, and discoloured at the distal portions; others were stunted and misshapen, evidently new nails; some were separated from their beds half-way towards the fold. A piece of paper could be slipped beneath them, showing that there was no massing of epidermis between the nail and its bed. The separated portion of the nail was blackened with dirt, but its texture was unaltered. The toe-nails had been stunted and misshapen for some time; none had suppurated. The mother's statement was, that the finger-nails presented no unusual appearance until twelve months ago, when certain of those on the right hand gradually turned black (presumably by separation from their beds and discolouration). When the blackened portion reached the fold, the finger-ends festered, and the nails were shed. Some of the nails of the left hand, not corresponding with those affected on the right, underwent similar changes. There were no signs of syphilis in the patient or other members of the family (the father was not seen); no history of dartrous affection (psoriasis, eczema, etc.); no traumatic cause for the disease was discoverable; no fungus could be found; appearances were in favour of the correctness of the mother's statement. The disease seemed to consist essentially in a separation of the nail from its bed; the onychia condition being possibly due to accumulated dirt, most probably in some instances to the contagion of pus.

REMOVAL OF MYELOID TUMOUR OF THE RADIUS BY
EXCISION.

Mr. MORRIS exhibited a patient, whose case is described in the tenth volume of the Clinical Society's Transactions, from whom he removed a large myeloid tumour of the radius by excising that bone from the wrist to the insertion of the supinator brevis, together with the lower four inches of the ulna. He brought her under the notice of the Society as an encouragement to surgeons to excise rather than amputate for such growth of the bones of the upper extremity. It was now four years since the operation, and yet there was no sign of recurrence of the disease. The degree of usefulness of the hand thus preserved to the patient was very considerable. By the aid of a simple leather splint she was able to nurse, dress, and wash her children, do all her household work, wash linen, and carve her own and her children's food. She could also stitch and darn, and was able

to take up a pin from off a table between her index and middle fingers, and pin her shawl together. Without her splint, since the contraction of the soft tissues between the hand and the end of the bones of the forearm had taken place, she was able, without support, to hold her hand out straight from the elbow. Mr. Morris remarked that before the operation he determined to remove a considerable part of the ulna, so as to avoid the great and permanent abduction which must have resulted if the lower end of that bone had been left untouched; and that at the time of the operation he found that, owing to the firm adhesions between the tumour and the outer side of the ulna, he would have been obliged to remove the lower part of that bone if he had not so predetermined. His only regret now was that he had not taken away as much of the ulna as of the radius, for the retraction of the hand had been so great that the lower end of the remaining ulna slightly overlapped the back of the carpus, and gave rise to some friction between the splint and the skin covering the bone, almost to the extent of forming a subcutaneous bursa. Indeed, for a time he thought a bursa had been formed, but this appearance had subsided of late. It would be admitted, he was sure, by any surgeon who examined the limb, that so far from being useless or an incumbrance, it was a very useful and serviceable member; and such was the conviction of the patient herself. (To be continued.)

OBITUARY.

WILLIAM HAGARTY O'LEARY, F.R.C.S.I., M.P. WE regret to announce the death, after a very short illness, of Dr. O'Leary, member of Parliament for the borough of Drogheda. Rapid pneumonia was the cause of his unexpected, almost sudden, decease, which took place in London on Sunday last, February 15. Dr. O'Leary was born in 1839, so that he was in his forty-first year at the time of his death. He was admitted a member of the medical profession some eighteen years ago, and after a time was appointed Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology in the Ledwich School of Medicine, Peter-street, Dublin, In 1871 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. About this time Dr. O'Leary obtained considerable notoriety by his evidence in the case of Talbot, the police-constable who was murdered in Dublin, in July, 1871, and by the advice he gave, or was believed to have given, in the management of the defence of the man tried for the murder. He at once became most popular with a certain class of politicians and of the public in Ireland; and one result was his election in the Home Rule interest as member of Parliament for the borough of Drogheda at the general election of 1874. To his credit it must be said that Dr. O'Leary was always a most useful member of the House of Commons, and on all occasions was ready and willing to lend a helping hand to his professional brethren in Parliamentary business. His loss will be much felt in many quarters. By his death a Surgeoncy to St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, and an Examinership in the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, become vacant.

RICHARD RAINSFORD, M.B. UNIV. DUB., F.R.C.S.I. WE greatly regret to have to record that on Tuesday, the 17th inst., Mr. Richard Rainsford died, after a long and distressing illness, at his residence, 2, Merrion-square West, Dublin. Three years have not elapsed since Mr. Henry Wilson, the able and well-known oculist and Mr. Rainsford's senior colleague at St. Mark's Ophthalmic Hospital, died of pneumonia in the same house. After Mr. Wilson's death, Mr. Rainsford moved to his house from Harcourt-street, where he had himself previously resided, and everything seemed to promise for him a long and prosperous career. Soon, however, symptoms of psoas abscess, connected apparently with a previously existing empyema, developed themselves, and he fell into bad health, which seriously interfered with, and ultimately put a stop to, his professional work.

Mr. Rainsford was a graduate in Arts of the University of Dublin, and took there also the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery in the year 1869. He subsequently proceeded to Vienna, where he pursued his studies

for some time. In 1874 he became a Licentiate and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Having adopted ophthalmic and aural surgery as his speciality, he was fortunate enough to be elected Assistant-Surgeon to St. Mark's Ophthalmic Hospital, to which institution he became full Surgeon on the death of Sir William Wilde in 1876. A year later, on Mr. Wilson's death, Mr. Rainsford was appointed Senior Surgeon to the same Hospital. He was also Ophthalmic and Aural Surgeon to the Adelaide Hospital, Lecturer on Ophthalmic and Aural Surgery in the Ledwich School of Medicine, Surgeon-Oculist to the National Institution for the Blind, Leeson-park, Dublin; and Aural Surgeon to the Claremont Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Glasnevin, near Dublin.

NEW INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS.

THE LARYNGO-PHANTOM.

THE accompanying illustrations are intended to demonstrate the Laryngo-Phantom, an apparatus devised by Dr. Isenschmid, of Münich, and intended to familiarise medical students and practitioners with as many of the details connected with the use of the laryngoscope as it is possible to

learn before the application of the instrument to the living subject.

The object intended to be served by the apparatus is a most laudable one, for it will supply a means of constant practice, whereby the many tiresome difficulties of adjustment for different views of the larynx may be in great measure surmounted before the practitioner is called upon to use the laryngoscope on a fidgety patient. It will also be useful for purely physiological purposes.

The phantom consists of three parts: First, there is a mouth of thin metal with tongue and uvula made of red velvet. This is fixed on a laryngeal tube of metal which has a slit by which the various painted images of different views of, and different conditions of, the laryngeal tract can be intrduced. This laryngeal tube is movable on a second tube, which is tightly fixed on a peg in the midst of a small box in which the whole apparatus can be packed. The anatomical dimensions are taken from nature. When in use the phantom is placed like the head of a patient who is going to be examined, one or two feet in front of the lamp, but aside from it, so that the rays coming from the lamp and passing the right ear of the patient on to the mirror, fixed at the forehead of the observer, are reflected into the mouth of the patient. The apparatus is sold, we believe, by Messrs. Krohne and Sesemann, of 8, Duke-street, Manchestersquare, W.

AT the annual meeting of the governors of St. Mark's Hospital, Dr. F. de Havilland Hall was unanimously elected as Honorary Physician in the room of the late Dr. Leared.

HOME LIFE IN JAPAN.-At a meeting of the Nipon (Japan) Institute, on the 26th inst., at 4.30 p.m., in the hall of the Society of Arts, Adelphi (Dr. B. W. Richardson in the chair), Mr. Proundes will give a lecture on the above subject. The domestic and sanitary, as well as the social life of the Japanese people, will be fully described.

THE LEVÉE.-The following medical men were presented at the levée held by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace, on Tuesday, the 17th inst.:-Surgeon H. E. F. Cross, R.N.; SurgeonMajor W. Finden, Indian Medical Department, on return from Afghanistan; Dr. Laking, Dr. W. Little, SurgeonGeneral Ross, C.I.E. Bengal Army; Fleet-Surgeon R. R. Siccáma, R N., Surgeon-Major F. B. Scott, and Surgeon W. Williams.

MEDICAL NEWS.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON.-The following gentlemen were admitted Licentiates on Feb. 16 :

Baker, William James, Millbrook, Southampton.
Paddle, James Isaac, University Hospital, W.C.

Shears, Charles Hartley Bedwell, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, E.C.
Stokes, Henry Fraser, 21, Compton-terrace, N.

Weed, Theodore Arthur, M.D., Wooster, 449, Strand, W.C.

KING AND QUEEN'S COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN IRELAND.-At the usual monthly examinations for the licences of the College, held on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, February 9, 10, 11, and 12, the following candidates were successful:

For the licence to practise Medicine

Allman, Robert.

Fisher, George Edward.

Hayes, John Joseph.

Lyle, Robert Charles.

McCoy, Michael Joseph.

MacDowel, Benjamin George.
Marshall, Mary Adamson.
Miller, John Alexander.
O'Donovan, Jeremiah.
Palmer, Walter Stephen.

Taylor, Thomas Cathcart.

For the licence to practise Midwifery

Allman, Robert.

Alvares, Nicolas Santana.

Fisher, George Edward.

Hayes, John Joseph.

McCoy, Michael Joseph.

Marshall, Mary Adamson.
O'Donovan, Jeremiah.
Sharpe, Alexander.
Taylor, Thomas Cathcart.
Williams, John A. de Courcy.

For the licence as Midwife and Nurse-tender

APOTHECARIES' HALL, LONDON.-The following gentlemen passed their examination in the Science and Practice of Medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday, February 12:

:

Battiss, William Sullivan, London Hospital.

Ensor, Theodore Francis, Milborne-Port, Somerset.
Finch, Alfred, Blackheath, 8.E.

Jones, Robert, Easteddefa, North Wales.

Knight, George Henry, Wimbledon.

Rygate, David John, 126, Cannon-street-road, E.

Walker, William Frederic, Saltoun-road, Brixton.
Wall, George Braithwaite, Bickerstaffe, Ormskirk.

The following gentleman also on the same day passed his Primary Professional Examination:

York, Thomas Hutton, Queen's Hospital, Birmingham.

APPOINTMENTS.

The Editor will thank gentlemen to forward to the Publishing-office, as early as possible, information as to all new Appointments that take place.

COBBOLD, C. S. W., M.D., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S.-Assistant Medical Officer to the (Female Department) Colney Hatch Asylum.

DYER, T. B., M.D., M.R.C.S.-Superintendent to the Darenth Asylum. ELLIOT, G. S., M.R.C.P., F.R.C.S.-Superintendent to the Caterham Asylum.

FORBES, D., M.A., M.B., L.R.C.S.-Assistant Medical Officer to the Workhouse, Brownlow-hill, Liverpool.

GEORGE, W. H., L.R.C.P., L.F.P.S.-Assistant Medical Officer to the (Female Department) Colney Hatch Asylum.

KITCHENER, T., M.D., M.R.C.S.-Physician to the Southern Dispensary, Bath.

STEELE, W. C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.S.A.-House-Surgeon to the Huntingdon County Hospital.

WATSON, C. S., M.B., C.M. Edin., M.R.C.S.-House-Physician to the Bristol Royal Infirmary.

WRIGHT, HERBERT ELLISTON, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.S.A.-House-Surgeon to the Bootle Borough Hospital.

BIRTHS.

BANTOCK.-On February 12, at 12, Granville-place, Portman-square, the wife of Granville Bantock, M.D., of a daughter. CAMERON.-On February 12, at 2, Charlton-villas, Harlesden, N.W., wife of Charles H. H. Cameron, L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.8. Eng., of a daughter.

the

ELLIOT.-On February 10, at Cliffe House, Ruyton XI. Towns, Salop, the
wife of Henry Francis Elliot, F.R.C.S., of a daughter.
EWART.-On February 9, at 21, Rubislaw-terrace, Aberdeen, the wife of
Professor J. Cossar Ewart, M.D., of a daughter.

FENTON.-On February 15, at Macquarie House, Ealing, the wife of
Frederick E. Fenton, L.R.C.P., of a son.

HARDWICKE.-On February 13, at South-terrace, Rotherham, the wife of
W. Wright Hardwicke, L.R.C.P., of twias, son and daughter.
JARVIS.-On February 5, at Southwick, Sussex, the wife of N. H. Jarvis,
M.R.C.S., of a son.

PARNELL.-On February 15, at St. Norman's, London-road, Forest-hill,
S.E., the wife of Gerald Créзy Parnell, M.R.C.S., of a son.

TURTLE.-On February 17, at 35, High-street, Homerton, the wife of James H. Turtle, M.D., of a daughter.

ALLEN, CAROLINE, wife of Robert Marshall Allen, M.D., Deputy InspectorGeneral of Hospitals H.M. Army, at Welbourn Hall, Grantham, Lincolnshire, on February 9.

ARMITAGE, REGINALD LEES, son of S. H. Armitage, M.D., of 12, North Audley-street, Grosvenor-square, W., at Calcutta, on January 16, aged 17. BANNER, SAMUEL, M.R.C.S., at 11, Delamere-street, Westbourne-square, W., on February 16, aged 71.

BERRYMAN, JOHN PENBERTHY, M.R.C.S., at St. Austell, on February 14, aged 55.

CLIFTON, ELIZA, wife of A. C. Clifton, M.D., M.R.C.S., at 65, Abingtonstreet, Northampton, on February 14, aged 55.

GODFREY, FRANCIS, Surgeon-General Madras Army (retired), at 14, Grosvenor-place, Bath, on February 11, in his 84th year.

HALL, A. R., Surgeon-Major, at Malta, on February 4.

KEITH, ALEXANDER CROMBIE, M.B., Surgeon Army Medical Department, at Cabul, Afghanistan, on January 14.

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. BURY ST. EDMUNDS FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.Resident Medical Officer. The successful candidate will be required to dispense medicines occasionally, and to undertake not to engage in private practice. Applications, stating age, etc., accompanied with testimonials, to be seat to Mr. J. Claydon, 9, Orchard-terrace, Bury St. Edmunds, on or before February 23.

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DISTRICT INFIRMARY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE.-House-Surgeon. dates must possess recognised medical and surgical diplomas. Applications, with testimonials, to be sent to the President, Hugh Mason, Esq., Ashton-under-Lyne, not later than February 25. GREAT YARMOUTH HOSPITAL.-House-Surgeon. Candidates must be unmarried and duly registered to practise medicine and surgery. Applications, with testimonials, to be sent to R. R. B. Norman, Esq., Hon. Secretary, on or before March 18.

LEITH HOSPITAL.-Assistant-Surgeon. Applications, with testimonials, to be sent to the Secretary, Mr. G. V. Mann, 33, Bernard-street, Leith, from whom further particulars can be obtained, on or before March 10. LIVERPOOL NORTHERN HOSPITAL.-Assistant House-Surgeon. Candidates must possess medical and surgical qualifications from one or more British colleges or institutions recognised under the Medical Act. Applications, with testimonials, to be sent to the Chairman of the Committee not later than February 28.

NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR THE PARALYSED AND EPILEPTIC, QUEENSQUARE, BLOOMSBURY.-Resident Medical Officer. Candidates must be duly qualified in medicine and surgery. Applications, with copies of testimonials, to be sent to B. Burford Rawlings, Esq., Secretary, on or before February 21.

THE DISPOSAL OF THE SEWAGE OF FINCHLEY.-The Finchley Local Board of Health last week held a special meeting to consider the question of the disposal of the sewage of the district. It had been proposed to have recourse to irrigation, and for this purpose a piece of land had been selected, close to the Marylebone Cemetery at Finchley. The Board's surveyor, upon the present occasion, brought up his report as to the suitability of the ground for this purpose, and an estimate of the expense which would have to be incurred. The latter was calculated at over £11,000, and as the general opinion of the members of the Board was that the surveyor's report was, on the whole, unfavourable to the adoption of this mode of disposing of the sewage, various other schemes were proposed and discussed, and it was also suggested that the co-operation of the adjoining parishes of Hendon and Friern Barnet should, if possible, be obtained.

NOTES, QUERIES, AND REPLIES.

Se that questioneth much shall learn much.-Bacon.

Beta, Stoke, Devonport.-We have received your letter, but it goes a little further than is advisable for many reasons, the more especially as you do not wish your name to be attached to it. The point, however, shall not be overlooked.

Archaeologist.-They were all physicians to George the Third. The following epigram on them is an example of the advantage of rhyme, the wit lying in the metrical form, and in the form only :

"The King employed three doctors daily-
Willis, Heberden, and Baillie-

All exceedingly skilful men,

Baillie, Willis, and Heberden;

But doubtful which most sure to kill is,
Baillie, Heberden, or Willis."

F.B.C.S. Eng. -Chirurgical lectures were given at the Royal College of Physicians in 1682. The Marquis of Dorchester was made a Fellow of the College in 1680.

H. F. S.-In 1606 Roman Catholics were prohibited in England by statute "from practising physic or exercising the trade of apothecaries." M.D., Kingston, Canada.-The advertisement of Dr. J. Young, of Kingston, who professes to cure consumption, worms, etc., by means of his "Indian Rose Pad," should be forwarded to the Secretary of the Royal College of Surgeons, of which institution he was admitted a member in #1841. Your subscription has been received, and our publishers will remit the back numbers in the manner indicated by you; the others will ⚫be sent by post.

H. F. S.-The fee for taking up the freedom of the Company of Apothecaries, if by servitude is only £2 38. 6d.; the same by purchase is one hundred guineas. Write to the Clerk.

A London Member.-Due notice will be given of Professor Flower's course of lectures.

W. W., Brampton.-The subscriptions at the recent annual dinner in aid of the funds of the French Hospital, Lisle-stret, amounted to about £2000. Factory Inspection, Prussia.-The following details show the success and satisfactory results of factory inspection in Prussia:-At Berlin thirtythree factories have ceased to employ children, and in the remainder there are only nine under fourteen years of age. In nearly all the provinces the same good results have been attained, especially in the district of Frankfort-on-the-Oder, where in the 330 cloth factories, employing 14,000 hands, there are now only 1500 minors, this being a decrease of 23 per cent. since 1876; while in the districts of Cologne, Coblenz, and Trèves the total number of children employed has fallen from 5334 to 4237, and of these all but sixty-one are over fourteen years of age. Wiesbaden and Düsseldorf are the exceptional districts in which there is any increase, and in the latter the addition, it is stated, is really due to the stricter accuracy of the statistics taken last year. The inspectors are vigilantly careful that proper sanitary arrangements are provided, and the employers willingly adopt all the precautions suggested against accidents to their workpeople.

Inquisitive.-The usual fee for London medical men lecturing in different parts of the kingdom, to classes formed under the St. John Ambulance Society-in which work several are engaged just now-is one guinea, in addition to their travelling expenses. It is simply an honorarium in recognition of their services.

Life in Whitechapel.-The terrible condition of the teeming poor in districts of the East-end of London continues, it appears, to form a very unsatisfactory portion of the sanitary inspectors' reports. A recent report to the Whitechapel District Board of Works called attention to the unhealthy and dilapidated condition of dwellings in the courts south of Royal Mint-street: they were described as filthy; in some cases there was no water-supply, and in others the water flowed over, and the yard was flooded from the defective state of the drains. A separate family occupied every room, and some of the rooms were overcrowded. In the discussion which ensued, the Metropolitan Board of Works was considered responsible for this condition of affairs, and a copy of the sanitary inspector's report was ordered to be sent to that Board. Official Sensitiveness.-Dr. Corner, Medical Officer of Health for Mile-end Old Town, in his published report states, inter alia-"Making every allowance for congenital diseases, defects, and low vital powers from various causes, there must still be some remediable, but not yet remedied cause-and for which we can conclude that the 'powers that be' are greatly responsible-for this great sacrifice of young and, doubtless, in the large majority of instances, vigorous life." At a recent meeting of the Mile-end Old Town Vestry, exception, in severely expressed terms, was taken to this remark of the Doctor's. One vestryman complained that it was "a reflection upon the Vestry as one of the powers that be, which was not justified." The Doctor replied "that his remark applied generally; and he should have thought that that would have been obvious to most intelligent people, who would admit that perfection in regard to measures affecting the public health was not yet attained." After a little further discussion the subject was dropped.

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A WHOLESOME EVENING'S AMUSEMENT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MEDICAL TIMES AND GAZETTE.

SIR,-It is no easy matter to find suitable occupation and amusement for a patient with a weak, excitable nervous system. The very worst plan of all is to cut him off from all kinds of pleasant excitement, and yet how can he be allowed to go to the evening theatres with their heat and glare and overcrowding? London does possess, however, means of amusing such an unfortunate. There are now afternoon performances at most of the best theatres and at the opera, and we can testify to the fact that many of them are thoroughly satisfactory from a medical point of view. Perhaps the best of all these performances, in its way, is Mr. and Mrs. German Reed's entertainment at St. George's Hall, which provokes just that amount of dramatic excitement and of musical interest which is desirable in the chronic nervous invalid. Such amusement exercises the mind to a moderate degree and in a happy direction, and is sure to prove beneficial. I am, &c., INVALID. Prince Leopold.-His Royal Highness has consented to become the patron of St. Agatha's Convalescent Home for Invalid Children at Beckenham, and has given a donation of ten guineas to the institution.

The Gilbert Blane Medals.-The sum of £300 was left by Sir Gilbert Blane in 1830, to be invested in Three per Cents., in the name of the College of Surgeons, for the purpose of awarding two gold medals every other year to naval surgeons whose reports should be adjudged to be the best. L. F. H., Norfolk.-The number of coroners in counties in England and Wales was 233; the number in boroughs was 99. Of the 233 county coroners, 175 are elected by the freeholders, and 58 by lords of manors and various officials and dignitaries of that description. The borough coroners are elected for the most part by the town councils. In three instances the mayor of the borough is, ex officio, the coroner. Weather Forecasts.-It appears from the reports of the Meteorological Council of the Royal Society, for the year ending March 31 last, that the Council feel themselves unable to express any definite opinion as to the success of the daily forecasts. They recognise an increasing interest in them by the public, and intimate that as the reports on which the forecasts are based are collected from a larger number of stations, the efficiency of the service will be greatly promoted.

Tricks of Milk-dealers' Servants.-Large milk-sellers and dairy companies are, it appears, constantly discovering that their servants of both sexes surreptitiously (if the opportunity occurs on their rounds for delivering milk) add water to the contents of the can with the view to peculation. The milk when it leaves their depôts is pure as it is received from the country. It is stated that in consequence of these frauds one of the London dairy companies has attempted, or is about to do so, the issuing of the milk in small and closely sealed bottles, any tampering with which by the employé will be readily detected. Noteworthy.-Attention has been called by a Parisian engineer to the fact that, in the most intense cold, the sewage-water has always remained considerably above freezing-point. While the Seine was mostly frozen the right bank below the sewer continued perfectly free.

The late Mr. Robert Baker, C.B.-The deceased, who was lately one of the Chief Inspectors of Factories, died on the 6th inst. at Milverton, Leamington, in his seventy-seventh year. He was a member of the medical profession, and had given special attention to the condition of the factory operatives, and was instrumental in bringing about factory legislation. He was appointed Sub-Inspector of Factories in 1824, and *Chief Inspector in 1858. On his retirement her Majesty conferred upon him the distinction of C.B. of the Civil Division.

Brook Pollution.-The Metropolitan Board of Works have obtained an injunction in Vice-Chancellor Hall's Court to restrain the London and North-Western Railway Company from conveying the drainage of some cottages at Acton into the Stamford Brook. To give the defendants time to provide a new drainage system for the cottages the order was suspended for six months.

"A Crying Shame."-At the annual meeting recently held, of one of the oldest provident dispensaries in Brighton, the abuse of the medical charities was specially referred to. One governor, Dr. Withers Moore, observed that they stood face to face with the fact that one-third of the population of the town received medical assistance gratuitously. It was a crying shame, that ladies and gentlemen who drove about in their carriages should, whenever their servants fell ill, expect educated gentlemen to attend them for nothing, just making them paupers; they might with equal justice expect the baker to send them bread for nothing. Similar sentiments were expressed by other speakers, it being the opinion that the medical charities of the town were appealed to by many who were in a position to pay for professional assistance.

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THE REGISTRAR OF APOTHECARIES' HALL, London; Dr. WOLFE, Glasgow ; Dr. EDWARD HAUGHTON, London; Dr. W. J. FRANCH, St. Kitts; Dr. EDWARD BALLARD, Local Government Board; Mr. THOS. JONES, Manchester; THE SECRETARY OF THE NIPON INSTITUTE; Mr. G. H. PAGE, Dublin; THE SECRETARY OF THE ST. MARK'S HOSPITAL; Dr. HENRY ASHBY, Manchester; Messrs. FLETCHER AND FLETCHER, London; Dr. OCTAVIUS STURGES, London; THE HONORARY SECRETARIES OF SOCIETY OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH; THE HONORARY SECRETARY OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; Mr. J. CHATTO, London; THE HON. SECRETARY OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY; Mr. T. M. STONE, London; Dr. EDWARD I. SPARKS, Mentone; THE HONORARY SECRETARY OF THE QUEKETT MICROSCOPICAL CLUB; Dr. HANDFIELD JONES, London; Mr. B. M. MITCHELL, Newport; Dr. LOUIS BORCHARDT, Fallowfield, Manchester; Messrs. BATES,

HENDY, AND Co., London; Mr. E. L. HUSSEY; THE REGISTRAR OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, London; Dr. FRED. TAYLOR, London; THE SECRETARY OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION; BETA; THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, Edinburgh; Dr. R. BRIDGE, London; Mr. C. J. CULLINGWORTH, Manchester; Dr. J. M. BRUCE, London; Dr. J. W. MOORE, Dublin; THE SECRETARY OF THE CLINICAL SOCIETY, London; THE SECRETARY OF THE PARKES MUSEUM OF HYGIENE; Mr. G. A. CARDEN, Cheltenham: Dr. J. ARLIDGE, Stoke-upon-Trent; Mr. R. W. PARKER, London; THE SECRETARY OF THE STATISTICAL SOCIETY, London. BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED

On some Substitutes for Alcohol in the Treatment of Fevers, by Francis Vacher, F.R.C.S.-On Common Lodging-house Accommodation, by Francis Vacher, F.R.C.S.-A Manual of Minor Surgery and Bandaging, by Christopher Heath, F.R.C.S.-New Commercial Plants, by Thomas Christy, F.L.S.-Medicinal Plants, parts 38 to 42, by Robert Bentley, F.L.S., and Henry Trimen, M.B., F.L.S.-Chirurgie Antiseptique, Dr. Just Lucas-Championnière-Report for January, 1880, Medical Officer of Health-Extracts from the Examiner-Lectures on Animal Development, by E. A. Schäfer, F.R.S.-Sessional Proceedings of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, vol. xiii., No. 2Quarterly Return of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages registered in Scotland, Quarter ending December 31, 1879.

PERIODICALS AND NEWSPAPERS RECEIVEDLancet-British Medical Journal-Medical Press and Circular-Berliner 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 Medicinischen WissenschaftenGazette Hebdomadaire-Louisville Medical News-Nature-Revue Médicale-El Siglo Medico-Galveston Medical Journal-Weekly Return of Births and Deaths-Rivista de Medicina-Boston Medical and Surgical Journal-Birmingham Daily Post, February 12-Occasional Notes-Missouri Dental Journal-Archives of Medicine-College and Clinical Record-Guy's Hospital Gazette-Michigan Medical NewsPhiladelphia Medical Times-Echo, February 13-Detroit LancetCentralblatt für Gynäkologie-Therapeutic Gazette-St. Louis Courier of Medicine-Students' Journal and Hospital Gazette-Obstetrical Journal-Revue d'Hygiène-New York Medical Journal-Canadian Journal of Medical Science.

27. Friday.

Operations at Central London Ophthalmic, 2 p.m.; Royal London Ophthalmic, 11 a.m.; South London Ophthalmic, 2 p.m.; Royal Westminster Ophthalmic, 14 p.m.; St. George's (ophthalmic operations), 1 p.m.; Guy's, 1 p.m.: St. Thomas's (ophthalmic operations), 2 p.m. CLINICAL SOCIETY, 8 p.m. Mr. Teevan, "On a Case of Retention of Urine from Impacted Urethral Calculus: Relieved by Pushing the Stone back into the Bladder and Crushing it." Dr. Buzzard, "On a Case of Paraplegia from Pott's Disease treated by Sayre's Splint; Intestinal Obstruction; Death from a Kick in the Duodenum." Dr. Buzzard, "On a Case of Rapid and almost Universal Paralysis, involving the Four Extremities, Both Sides of the Face, Respiration, and Deglutition; Recovery." Dr. Sangster, "On a Case of Molluscum Fibrosum." Dr. Greenhow, "On a Case of Typhoid Fever, with Acute Nephritis and Profuse Hæmaturia."

QUEKETT MICROSCOPICAL CLUB (University College), 8p.m. Dr. T. Spencer Cobbold, "On Human and Canine Filaria." Dr. 8. Marsh, jun., "On Bleaching and Washing Microscopical Sections."

ROYAL INSTITUTION, 9 p.m. Mr. F. J. Bramwell, "Sequel to the Thunderer Gun Explosion."

METEOROLOGY.

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From Observations at the Greenwich Observatory.

Mean height of barometer...
Mean temperature

Highest point of thermometer
Lowest point of thermometer
Mean dew-point temperature
General direction of wind ...
Whole amount of rain in the week

BIRTHS and DEATHS Registered and METEOROLOGY during the Week ending Saturday, Feb. 14, in the following large Towns:

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean reading of the barometer last week was 29'55 in. The lowest reading was 29.00 in. on Monday evening, and the highest 30°06 in. at noon on Friday.

The figures for the English and Scottish towns (except for Nottingham, Salford, and Oldham) are the numbers enumerated in April, 1871, raised to the middle of 1880 by the addition of nine years and a quarter's increase, calculated at the rate which prevailed between 1861 and 1871. Revised estimates have been adopted for Nottingham, Salford, and Oldham, based upon special returns of inhabited houses existing within those boroughs. The population of Dublin is taken as stationary at the number enumerated in April, 1871.