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infirmary containing abut 40 beds, a laundry with a roonm waste-water receptacles are flushed or emptied and for drying wet clothes and flannels, a swimming bath whict:h petroleum is added. In addition to these measures a has recently been reconstructed at a cost of over £10003, considerable strip of low-lying marshy land has been f filled up with sand, thus preventing the formation of three (chemical, physical, and biological) laboratories,a The not and a onl]y pools of stagnant water. As Professor Boyce points out, college carpenter’s workshop. gymnasium, has the patronage of the King but members of the Boya these measures are in reality only an extension of measures Family have taken a personal interest in the school. Hisis of sound sanitation. The report is of great interest and Majesty laid the foundation-stone of the lower school a feww should stimulate the authorities of many of our colonial years ago and last year the Prince of Wales paid a visit to thE.e towns, especially in West Africa, to take similar steps to college and expressed to Dr. Holman his satisfaction at all11 those recorded in it. If Ismailia and Havana, which latter The very large number of scholarships andd was notoriously plagued with malaria and yellow fever, have he saw. exhibitions open to boys leaving the school should be ann been rendered so hygienic as is the case, there is surely no attraction to persons with limited incomes. There are ninee medical scholarships at the hospital schools in London,L, ranging in value from 120 guineas to 150, and ninee scholarships ranging in value from £27 to f!.60. Some of the foregoing are restricted to foundation scholars. Thee school fee is 75 guineas a year but sons of medical men are charged only 65 guineas. The college is managed by a council of 30 governors, many of whom, as will be seen by a glance at the prospectus referred to, have risen to eminencee in the medical and other professions, thus parents may safely leave the interests of their sons in the hands of thiss body. The prospectus has, we understand, been freely circulated amongst members of the medical profession and1 if anyone has consigned his copy to the waste-paper baskett before reading these comments he can obtain another on application to the bursar at No. 3, the College, Epsom.
why other towns should not go and do likewise. In this connexion Dr. J. W. W. Stephens’s article on antimalarial operations at Mian Mir, which appears at p. 637, and the report by Captain S P. James, I.M.S., which is reviewed at p. 659, may be studied with advantage. reason
MEDICAL
ANTI-MALARIA MEASURES AT ISMAILIA. EARLY in the year 1902 the Suez Canal Company, through its chairman, Prince d’Arenberg, asked Sir Alfred Jones,, chairman of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, to) allow Professor Ronald Ross to proceed to Ismailia, there to) advise upon a method of ridding the town of mosquitoes. The school committee agreed and Professor Ross accordingly arrived at Ismailia on Sept. 17th, 1902. Two medical officers of the Canal Company, Dr. Pressat and Dr. Dampeirou, had already discovered the presence of the anopheles. Professor Ross confirmed their observations, made a careful investigation into the various breeding places: His of mosquitoes, and suggested a plan of campaign. recommendations have been carried out with great success and from a report of the scheme and its results written by Professor Rubert W. Boyce, which is now before us, we learn that the number of cases of malaria has been reduced from 2284 in 1900 to 209 in 1903, while in this latter year, for the first time, no deaths from malaria are recorded among the European population. Professor Boyce compares the success thus achieved with that attained in Havana by the Government of the United States of America. Professor Boyce himself visited Ismailia this year and made a tour of inspection. Breeding places for mosquitoes were found to be more common in the better class quarters than in the poorer quarters, owing to the presence in the former of baths, fountains in the gardens, cesspools, and waste-water receptacles. Professor Ross had inaugurated two anti-mosquito brigades, one the drain brigade whose duty it is to keep all drains clear, and the other the petroleum brigade whose duty it is to add petroleum to all collections of water which could not be removed. The procedure is as follows, a typical house and garden being taken as an example. Once a week the petroleum brigade visits the house and pours a mixture of crude and ordinary petroleum into all collections of drain and waste water which do not soak away during the day. Petroleum is poured into the water-closets and into the pits which receive the bath and slop waste water. The garden fountain is emptied as far as possible and petroleum is poured into it, the basin being refilled after 12 hours. Stable drains, washing troughs, and all .
AND DENTAL DEFENCE IN SCOTLAND.
THE Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland, was formed in May, 1902, and the first annual general meeting was held in Glasgow on Dec. 18th, 1903, by which time there were more than 500 members. The registered office is at 108, West George-street, Glasgow, the secretary and treasurer being Mr. William Young of that address. The executive council has four presidents-namely, Professor A. R. Simpson (Edinburgh), Professor William Stephenson (Aberdeen), Dr. James Fialayson (Glasgow), and Professor J. A. C. Kynoch (St. Andrews). There are many names on the list of vice-presidents, central council, and committees. Four district councils have been formednamely, for Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, and Inverness. The objects of the union are :-
Limited,
(a) To protect, support, and safeguard the character and interests of legally qualified medical and dental practitioners and for that purpose
or defend actions in name either of any member or of the union. (b) To advise members in regard to questions which may arise in the practice of the medical or dental professions and to defend members when attacked. (c) To promote honourable practice. (d) To consider, originate, promote, and support, legislative measures likely to benefit the medical and dental professions and to oppose all measures calculated to injure them, and for these purposes aforesaid to petition Parliament and take such other steps and proceedings as may be deemed expedient.
to raise
The subscription is 10s. per annum, payable each year on the anniversary of admission as a member and meantime there is no entrance fee. Members may resign at any time on giving two months’ notice. Under the articles of association the utmost liability of any member for subscriptions, or in the event of winding up, is £1. The fundamental differences which exist between the laws of England and those of Scotland in many important respects, and the conviction that Scottish practitioners will be protected more adequately in a purely Scottish society, are held as justifying the existence of this union. At the general meeting reference was made to 21 cases in which the union had given advice or otherwise taken action ; only one of these cases seems to have been brought into court and proceedings were at that date still going on. THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON SCHOOL
HYGIENE. IN THE LANCET of Feb. 13th, p. 455, we announced that the First International Congress on School Hygiene would be held at Nuremberg from April 4th to 9th. Organising committees have been constituted in each of the European countries, in the United States of America, and in Japan. The offices of the English organising committee are at the Parkes Museum, Margaret-street, London, W,, Sir Lauder Brunton being the president and Dr. James Kerr the honorary secretary ; there are also numerous vicepresidents and members of committee. English, French, and German will be the official languages of the Congress. The
673 Transactions, which will be duly published, will no doubt be valuable to all who are interested in the subject of education. The work of the congress will be distributed between general meetings and meetings of sections devoted to the following ten subjects :-(1) The School Building and its
thhe Colonial Office on Feb. 26th states that for the week er nding Feb 25th there were three cases of plague and two dEdeaths from the disease. ___
A MEETING will be held in the Mansion House on Friday, M darch Residential Schools ; (3) lltb, at 3 PM., in support of the appeal for funds for Furnishings ; (2) Hygiene Methods of Hygienic Investigation and Research in School; tbhe removal of King’s College Hospital to South London. (4) the Physiology and Psychology of Educational Methods TlChe Right Hon. the Lord Mayor will preside and will be and Work ; (5) Instruction in Hygiene for Teachers and Stupported by, among others, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Scholars ; (6) Physical Education and Training in Personal tlhe Bishop of Rochester, Archbishop Bourne, Lord Methuen, Hygiene ; (7) Contagious Diseases, Ill-health, and Conditions Si)Ïr Savile Crossley, the Rev. A. 0. Headlam, Principal affecting Attendance ; (8) Special Schools, including those oif King’s College, Dr. David Ferrier, senior physician to the for Feeble-minded, Blind, Deaf, Dumb, Cripple, Invalid, hilospital, and Mr. W. Watson Cheyne, senior surgeon to the and Exceptional Children ; (9) Out of School Hygiene, bio3pital. Holiday Camps and Schools, the Relations of the Home AMONG the 15 candidates selected by the Council for the and the School ; and (10) the Hygiene of the Teaching ProF fession. At the general meetings of the whole congress Fellowship of the Royal Society are Dr. T. G. Brodie, there will be addresses on the following subjects: What Pprofessor of physiology at the Royal Veterinary College and Dr. has Ophthalmology accomplished for School Hygiene and Pprofessor-superintendent of the Brown Institute ; H. F. in and G jL lecturer Nuttall, still to be Professor Hermann Cohn remains done ? by university bacteriology what (Breslau) ; the Present Position of School Hygiene in p3reventive medicine at Cambridge ; and Professor A. E. Norway, by Professor Axel Johannessen (Christiania) ; the Shipley, the well known biologist, university lecturer at Personal Health of the Teacher and its Influence on the CCambridge upon invertebrate morphology. Scholars, by Dr. Le Gendre (Paris) ; the Organisation of the Elementary’School Population according to the natural THE annual meeting of the East London Nursing Society working capabilities of the children, by Dr. Sickingerwill be held at the Mansion House on Tuesday afternoon, (Mannheim) ; the Duties and Preparation of the SchoolMarch 15th. The chair will be taken at 3 o’clock by the Medical Officer, by Dr. Liebermann (Budapest) ; and the FRight Hon. the Lord Mayor. Motions will be proposed Prevention of Infectious Diseases in School, by Professor or the o the Ven. Archdeacon of London, supported by Hueppe. (Prague). There will be an exhibition, including IDr. Robert Hutchison, Mr. John Tennant (chairman of the all that appertains to education work, school structures, s society), and others. and furnishing. The subscription fee for a card of membership entitling the subscriber to all the privileges of the THE annual general meeting of the London and Counties congress is 1Is. Subscriptions may be paid to the3Medical Protection Society will be held at 31, Cravensecretary of the English organising committee at the street, s Strand, London, W.C., on Friday, March llth, at Parkes Museum. q 4.30 P.M., when in view of the proposal that the British IMedical Association shall undertake medical defence a large THE annual dinner of the Medical Society of London 13attendance may be expected. will be held on Tuesday next, March 8th, at the Whitehall Rooms, Hotel Metropole, at 7.30 P.M. The THE Local Government Board for Scotland reports that President, Dr. F. de Havilland Hall, will be in the ( the period Feb. 16th to 29th inclusive 242 cases chair and will be supported by the President of the Royalduring ( of were notified to it. The local incidence of the small-pox of the of of President the London, College Physicians Royal (disease is heaviest in the borough of Greenock where the of of the President of the England, Royal College Surgeons ( amount to 9’ 97 per 10, 000 of the population. Medical and Chirurgical and other medical societies, thecases
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Directory-General of the Navy and Army Medical Services, the Principal of the University of London, the Regius A DECIDED change for the better has, we are glad to hear, Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge, Sir taken 1 place in the course of the illness of Sir Samuel Wilks, Thomas Smith, Bart., Sir R. Douglas Powell, Bart., Sirso that confident hopes are now entertained of his recovery. I G. Scott Robertson, K.C.S.L, and other distinguished guests.During the last few days his strength has increased and he lhas been able to take more nourishment. ___
THE annual clinical debate of the Chelsea Clinical Society will be held at the Chelsea Dispensary, Manor-street, King’sMr. G. E. Richmond, M.D., B.S., B.A., B.Sc. Lond., road, London, S.W., on Tuesday, March 8th, and Tuesday, D.P. H. Camb., has been appointed demonstrator of hygiene March 15th at 8.30 P.M. The subject selected for debateand public health at University College, London. isI I Internal Secretion"in Disease and in Treatment. The following gentlemen will speak :-First night, March 8th : ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY.-At the meetSir Lauder Brunton, Sir Victor Horsley, Dr. H. D. Rolleston, and Dr. A. E. Wright. Second night, March 15th : Dr ing of the Royal Microscopical Society held on Feb. 17tb, the read for Mr. E. M. Nelson a paper on the Vertical A. Macfadyen, Dr. R. T. Hewlett, Dr. W. Hale White, and secretary Illuminator and the Influence of the Antipoint on the Dr. J. Rose Bradford. The meetings will be open to all Microscopic Image. Various methods of obtaining vertical members of the medical profession. illumination were described, with especial reference to the portion of the optic axis at which the reflector was placed. Mr. Keith Lucas showed a microscope stand made by himself THE medical officer of health of the Cape Colony states in which the various motions were produced by means of that for the week ending Feb. 6th no case of plague was geometric slides. He said that the principle had been recorded throughout the Colony. Plague-infected rats were applied to reading microscopes but not to biological microfound at Port Elizabeth and Queenstown, but of 245 rats scopes so far as he was aware. He claimed for the system of manufacture ; examined during the week in the Cape Town and Harbour the following advantages: (1) cheapness of the movement becoming shaky from impossibility (2) Board area none was affected with plague. As regards the wear ; and (3) optical alignmentof the body tube with the Mauritius a telegram from the Acting Governor received at Eubstage fittings.
infirmary containing abut 40 beds, a laundry with a roonm waste-water receptacles are flushed or emptied and for drying wet clothes and flannels, a swimming bath whict:h petroleum is added. In addition to these measures a has recently been reconstructed at a cost of over £10003, considerable strip of low-lying marshy land has been f filled up with sand, thus preventing the formation of three (chemical, physical, and biological) laboratories,a The not and a onl]y pools of stagnant water. As Professor Boyce points out, college carpenter’s workshop. gymnasium, has the patronage of the King but members of the Boya these measures are in reality only an extension of measures Family have taken a personal interest in the school. Hisis of sound sanitation. The report is of great interest and Majesty laid the foundation-stone of the lower school a feww should stimulate the authorities of many of our colonial years ago and last year the Prince of Wales paid a visit to thE.e towns, especially in West Africa, to take similar steps to college and expressed to Dr. Holman his satisfaction at all11 those recorded in it. If Ismailia and Havana, which latter The very large number of scholarships andd was notoriously plagued with malaria and yellow fever, have he saw. exhibitions open to boys leaving the school should be ann been rendered so hygienic as is the case, there is surely no attraction to persons with limited incomes. There are ninee medical scholarships at the hospital schools in London,L, ranging in value from 120 guineas to 150, and ninee scholarships ranging in value from £27 to f!.60. Some of the foregoing are restricted to foundation scholars. Thee school fee is 75 guineas a year but sons of medical men are charged only 65 guineas. The college is managed by a council of 30 governors, many of whom, as will be seen by a glance at the prospectus referred to, have risen to eminencee in the medical and other professions, thus parents may safely leave the interests of their sons in the hands of thiss body. The prospectus has, we understand, been freely circulated amongst members of the medical profession and1 if anyone has consigned his copy to the waste-paper baskett before reading these comments he can obtain another on application to the bursar at No. 3, the College, Epsom.
why other towns should not go and do likewise. In this connexion Dr. J. W. W. Stephens’s article on antimalarial operations at Mian Mir, which appears at p. 637, and the report by Captain S P. James, I.M.S., which is reviewed at p. 659, may be studied with advantage. reason
MEDICAL
ANTI-MALARIA MEASURES AT ISMAILIA. EARLY in the year 1902 the Suez Canal Company, through its chairman, Prince d’Arenberg, asked Sir Alfred Jones,, chairman of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, to) allow Professor Ronald Ross to proceed to Ismailia, there to) advise upon a method of ridding the town of mosquitoes. The school committee agreed and Professor Ross accordingly arrived at Ismailia on Sept. 17th, 1902. Two medical officers of the Canal Company, Dr. Pressat and Dr. Dampeirou, had already discovered the presence of the anopheles. Professor Ross confirmed their observations, made a careful investigation into the various breeding places: His of mosquitoes, and suggested a plan of campaign. recommendations have been carried out with great success and from a report of the scheme and its results written by Professor Rubert W. Boyce, which is now before us, we learn that the number of cases of malaria has been reduced from 2284 in 1900 to 209 in 1903, while in this latter year, for the first time, no deaths from malaria are recorded among the European population. Professor Boyce compares the success thus achieved with that attained in Havana by the Government of the United States of America. Professor Boyce himself visited Ismailia this year and made a tour of inspection. Breeding places for mosquitoes were found to be more common in the better class quarters than in the poorer quarters, owing to the presence in the former of baths, fountains in the gardens, cesspools, and waste-water receptacles. Professor Ross had inaugurated two anti-mosquito brigades, one the drain brigade whose duty it is to keep all drains clear, and the other the petroleum brigade whose duty it is to add petroleum to all collections of water which could not be removed. The procedure is as follows, a typical house and garden being taken as an example. Once a week the petroleum brigade visits the house and pours a mixture of crude and ordinary petroleum into all collections of drain and waste water which do not soak away during the day. Petroleum is poured into the water-closets and into the pits which receive the bath and slop waste water. The garden fountain is emptied as far as possible and petroleum is poured into it, the basin being refilled after 12 hours. Stable drains, washing troughs, and all .
AND DENTAL DEFENCE IN SCOTLAND.
THE Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland, was formed in May, 1902, and the first annual general meeting was held in Glasgow on Dec. 18th, 1903, by which time there were more than 500 members. The registered office is at 108, West George-street, Glasgow, the secretary and treasurer being Mr. William Young of that address. The executive council has four presidents-namely, Professor A. R. Simpson (Edinburgh), Professor William Stephenson (Aberdeen), Dr. James Fialayson (Glasgow), and Professor J. A. C. Kynoch (St. Andrews). There are many names on the list of vice-presidents, central council, and committees. Four district councils have been formednamely, for Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, and Inverness. The objects of the union are :-
Limited,
(a) To protect, support, and safeguard the character and interests of legally qualified medical and dental practitioners and for that purpose
or defend actions in name either of any member or of the union. (b) To advise members in regard to questions which may arise in the practice of the medical or dental professions and to defend members when attacked. (c) To promote honourable practice. (d) To consider, originate, promote, and support, legislative measures likely to benefit the medical and dental professions and to oppose all measures calculated to injure them, and for these purposes aforesaid to petition Parliament and take such other steps and proceedings as may be deemed expedient.
to raise
The subscription is 10s. per annum, payable each year on the anniversary of admission as a member and meantime there is no entrance fee. Members may resign at any time on giving two months’ notice. Under the articles of association the utmost liability of any member for subscriptions, or in the event of winding up, is £1. The fundamental differences which exist between the laws of England and those of Scotland in many important respects, and the conviction that Scottish practitioners will be protected more adequately in a purely Scottish society, are held as justifying the existence of this union. At the general meeting reference was made to 21 cases in which the union had given advice or otherwise taken action ; only one of these cases seems to have been brought into court and proceedings were at that date still going on. THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON SCHOOL
HYGIENE. IN THE LANCET of Feb. 13th, p. 455, we announced that the First International Congress on School Hygiene would be held at Nuremberg from April 4th to 9th. Organising committees have been constituted in each of the European countries, in the United States of America, and in Japan. The offices of the English organising committee are at the Parkes Museum, Margaret-street, London, W,, Sir Lauder Brunton being the president and Dr. James Kerr the honorary secretary ; there are also numerous vicepresidents and members of committee. English, French, and German will be the official languages of the Congress. The
673 Transactions, which will be duly published, will no doubt be valuable to all who are interested in the subject of education. The work of the congress will be distributed between general meetings and meetings of sections devoted to the following ten subjects :-(1) The School Building and its
thhe Colonial Office on Feb. 26th states that for the week er nding Feb 25th there were three cases of plague and two dEdeaths from the disease. ___
A MEETING will be held in the Mansion House on Friday, M darch Residential Schools ; (3) lltb, at 3 PM., in support of the appeal for funds for Furnishings ; (2) Hygiene Methods of Hygienic Investigation and Research in School; tbhe removal of King’s College Hospital to South London. (4) the Physiology and Psychology of Educational Methods TlChe Right Hon. the Lord Mayor will preside and will be and Work ; (5) Instruction in Hygiene for Teachers and Stupported by, among others, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Scholars ; (6) Physical Education and Training in Personal tlhe Bishop of Rochester, Archbishop Bourne, Lord Methuen, Hygiene ; (7) Contagious Diseases, Ill-health, and Conditions Si)Ïr Savile Crossley, the Rev. A. 0. Headlam, Principal affecting Attendance ; (8) Special Schools, including those oif King’s College, Dr. David Ferrier, senior physician to the for Feeble-minded, Blind, Deaf, Dumb, Cripple, Invalid, hilospital, and Mr. W. Watson Cheyne, senior surgeon to the and Exceptional Children ; (9) Out of School Hygiene, bio3pital. Holiday Camps and Schools, the Relations of the Home AMONG the 15 candidates selected by the Council for the and the School ; and (10) the Hygiene of the Teaching ProF fession. At the general meetings of the whole congress Fellowship of the Royal Society are Dr. T. G. Brodie, there will be addresses on the following subjects: What Pprofessor of physiology at the Royal Veterinary College and Dr. has Ophthalmology accomplished for School Hygiene and Pprofessor-superintendent of the Brown Institute ; H. F. in and G jL lecturer Nuttall, still to be Professor Hermann Cohn remains done ? by university bacteriology what (Breslau) ; the Present Position of School Hygiene in p3reventive medicine at Cambridge ; and Professor A. E. Norway, by Professor Axel Johannessen (Christiania) ; the Shipley, the well known biologist, university lecturer at Personal Health of the Teacher and its Influence on the CCambridge upon invertebrate morphology. Scholars, by Dr. Le Gendre (Paris) ; the Organisation of the Elementary’School Population according to the natural THE annual meeting of the East London Nursing Society working capabilities of the children, by Dr. Sickingerwill be held at the Mansion House on Tuesday afternoon, (Mannheim) ; the Duties and Preparation of the SchoolMarch 15th. The chair will be taken at 3 o’clock by the Medical Officer, by Dr. Liebermann (Budapest) ; and the FRight Hon. the Lord Mayor. Motions will be proposed Prevention of Infectious Diseases in School, by Professor or the o the Ven. Archdeacon of London, supported by Hueppe. (Prague). There will be an exhibition, including IDr. Robert Hutchison, Mr. John Tennant (chairman of the all that appertains to education work, school structures, s society), and others. and furnishing. The subscription fee for a card of membership entitling the subscriber to all the privileges of the THE annual general meeting of the London and Counties congress is 1Is. Subscriptions may be paid to the3Medical Protection Society will be held at 31, Cravensecretary of the English organising committee at the street, s Strand, London, W.C., on Friday, March llth, at Parkes Museum. q 4.30 P.M., when in view of the proposal that the British IMedical Association shall undertake medical defence a large THE annual dinner of the Medical Society of London 13attendance may be expected. will be held on Tuesday next, March 8th, at the Whitehall Rooms, Hotel Metropole, at 7.30 P.M. The THE Local Government Board for Scotland reports that President, Dr. F. de Havilland Hall, will be in the ( the period Feb. 16th to 29th inclusive 242 cases chair and will be supported by the President of the Royalduring ( of were notified to it. The local incidence of the small-pox of the of of President the London, College Physicians Royal (disease is heaviest in the borough of Greenock where the of of the President of the England, Royal College Surgeons ( amount to 9’ 97 per 10, 000 of the population. Medical and Chirurgical and other medical societies, thecases
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Directory-General of the Navy and Army Medical Services, the Principal of the University of London, the Regius A DECIDED change for the better has, we are glad to hear, Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge, Sir taken 1 place in the course of the illness of Sir Samuel Wilks, Thomas Smith, Bart., Sir R. Douglas Powell, Bart., Sirso that confident hopes are now entertained of his recovery. I G. Scott Robertson, K.C.S.L, and other distinguished guests.During the last few days his strength has increased and he lhas been able to take more nourishment. ___
THE annual clinical debate of the Chelsea Clinical Society will be held at the Chelsea Dispensary, Manor-street, King’sMr. G. E. Richmond, M.D., B.S., B.A., B.Sc. Lond., road, London, S.W., on Tuesday, March 8th, and Tuesday, D.P. H. Camb., has been appointed demonstrator of hygiene March 15th at 8.30 P.M. The subject selected for debateand public health at University College, London. isI I Internal Secretion"in Disease and in Treatment. The following gentlemen will speak :-First night, March 8th : ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY.-At the meetSir Lauder Brunton, Sir Victor Horsley, Dr. H. D. Rolleston, and Dr. A. E. Wright. Second night, March 15th : Dr ing of the Royal Microscopical Society held on Feb. 17tb, the read for Mr. E. M. Nelson a paper on the Vertical A. Macfadyen, Dr. R. T. Hewlett, Dr. W. Hale White, and secretary Illuminator and the Influence of the Antipoint on the Dr. J. Rose Bradford. The meetings will be open to all Microscopic Image. Various methods of obtaining vertical members of the medical profession. illumination were described, with especial reference to the portion of the optic axis at which the reflector was placed. Mr. Keith Lucas showed a microscope stand made by himself THE medical officer of health of the Cape Colony states in which the various motions were produced by means of that for the week ending Feb. 6th no case of plague was geometric slides. He said that the principle had been recorded throughout the Colony. Plague-infected rats were applied to reading microscopes but not to biological microfound at Port Elizabeth and Queenstown, but of 245 rats scopes so far as he was aware. He claimed for the system of manufacture ; examined during the week in the Cape Town and Harbour the following advantages: (1) cheapness of the movement becoming shaky from impossibility (2) Board area none was affected with plague. As regards the wear ; and (3) optical alignmentof the body tube with the Mauritius a telegram from the Acting Governor received at Eubstage fittings.