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L. Osborn: Of the Gill in some forms of ProsobranchiateMollusca. Vol. iii., No. 3:—1. W. H. Howell: Notes on theComposition of the Blood and Lymph of the Slider Terrapin.2. By the same author: The Origin of the Fibrin formed inthe Coagulation of the Blood. 3. II. G. Beyer: On the Actionof Carbolic Acid, Atropia, and Convallaria on the Heart, withsome Observations on the Influence of oxygenated and non-oxygenated Blood, and of Blood in various degrees of Dilu-tion, with a plate. 4. The Action of Intermittent Pressureand of Defibrinated Blood upon the Bloodvessels of the Frogand the Terrapin, by L. T. Stevens and F. S. Lee.

New Inventions.POCKET CASES FOR HYPODERMIC MEDICATION.THE new complete pocket case for hypodermic medication

brought out by Messrs. Burroughs, Wellcome, and Co. isadmirably adapted to the purposes for which it is intended.Its small compass, its compactness, its inexpensiveness, andits completeness render it an invaluable addition to the

physician’s armamentarium. It contains a hypodermicsyringe with two sharp needles, a miniature glass pestle andmortar, and ten small tubes containing the compressed tabletsof the various medicaments mostly employed in hypodermicinjections. The compressed tablets, of which we have alreadygiven our judgment, are easily crushed in the little mortar,and readily dissolve in a few drops of warm water. Wecan testify to the ease and rapidity with which a hypodermicinjection can be prepared from these compressed tablets,which are made up with sulphate of soda. In our expe-rience the use of these tablets has not been followed by anylocal irritation or unpleasant effects.

ASSOCIATION OF MEMBERS OF THE ROYALCOLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.

THE first annual general meeting of this Association washeld on Tuesday last, at 4 P.M., at the Westminster TownHall. The chair was taken by Dr. G. Danford Thomas, thecoroner for Central Middlesex. The meeting was verynumerously attended.The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, endeavoured

to show what an important part of the medical professionthe Members of the Royal College of Surgeons were ; theyconstituted the rank and file of the profession, and it was totheir efforts that we owed whatever of medical reform hadbeen brought about. Though much reform was still neededin the cause of medical education, yet this could not be accom-plished without the ;’passage of a Medical Act AmendmentBill through Parliament. Meanwhile it behoved the professionto look at home, and he considered that there was good causefor reform in the Royal College of Surgeons. The Council ofthe College had almost estranged the Members of the Collegefrom their alma mater, and he considered that by their recentaction the Council had treated the members with marked dis-

courtesy. He intimated that the Association of Members wasin communication with the Privy Council; and it was certainthat no new Charter would be granted to the Council of theCollege without the Members of the College having a voicein the matter. The Members of ’the College should notcease to exert themselves until they had obtained theirjust electoral rights. Although the projected new Chartersought to effect some reforms in the constitution of theCollege, yet he ventured to believe that there was need formuch greater reform than that sought by the Council. Thefirst object to be attained by this Association was the directrepresentation of the Members of the College on the Council;other rights would then necessarily follow. At Liverpool,on May 1st, a large number of Members of the College hadheld a meeting, which pledged itself to support the objectsfor which the Association of Members had been founded.

Mr. ASHTON ELLIS, one of the hon. secretaries, then readthe first annual report of the Association. The report gave

an account of the transactions which had taken place duringthe past year, including the causes which had given rise tothe formation of the Society, and the various means whichhad been adopted to effect the purposes which the Asso-ciation had at heart.

Dr. W. C. STEELE then read the financial report, whichsliowed that considerable expense had already been in-curred.The CHAIRMAN proposed that the reports of the Secretaries

be received and adopted.The following list of officers for the ensuing year was pro-

posed and accepted:-President: Dr. Robert Collum. Vice-Presidents : Mr. Joseph Smith, Dr. Danford Thomas, Mr.R. Hicks (Ramsgate), Dr. G. H. Batterbury (Wimborne),Deputy Surgeon-General E. McKellar. lion. Secs. andTreasurers: Dr. Warwick C. Steele, Mr. J. Nield Cook, Mr.W. Ashton Ellis. Central Committee: Dr. T. Stretch Dowse,Mr. Kenneth Cornish, Dr. C. Royston, Mr. G. Brown, Dr. R.Paramore, Mr. M. G. Biggs, Dr. T. Robinson, Mr. J. BrindleyJames, Dr. J. W. Barron Mason, Mr. T. H. Sawtell, Dr.

Joseph Rogers, Mr. F. J. Pearse, Mr. Horace Watts, Mr. W. G.Dickinson, Mr. John C. Smith, Dr. A. W. Orwin, Mr. W.Outhwaite, Mr. Maurice Clifford, Mr. A. H. Robinson.

Dr. COLLUM moved the following resolution :-" Thatthis meeting protests vigorously against the conduct of theCouncil of the Royal College of Surgeons in refusing all thedemands of the Members of the Royal College of Surgeons."Mr. JOSEPH SMITH seconded the resolution, and referred

to the deputation from the Association which the Presidentand Vice-Presidents of the Royal College of Surgeonsreceived in the early part of the year. The result of thatdeputation consisted in an answer but recently received, inwhich the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons prac-tically refused to acquiesce in the demands of the Asso-ciation. He said that it was probable that the Associationof Members would go hand in hand with the Association ofFellows. He read extracts from the letter of Mr. ReginaldHarrison which appeared in THE LANCET last week.Mr. JABEZ HOGG spoke on the resolution, which was

unanimously carried.Dr. JOSEPH ROGERS proposed: " That this meeting urges

that immediate steps be taken to prevent any alteration ofthe said Charter until it has received the general sanction ofthe Members, for which purpose the Privy Council be re-quested to receive a deputation to explain the views of theMembers, supported by a petition to the House of Commons."Mr. OuTHWAITE seconded the resolution, which was

unanimously carried.Mr. HORACE WATTS proposed the third resolution: " That

’ this meeting considers that no alterations in the Charter ofthe Royal College of Surgeons should be allowed withoutprovision being made for the due representation of the

. Members upon the Council."Mr. H. T. SHAPLEY (Leamington) seconded the resolution,, which was also unanimously carried.

Mr. HOPPER said that the feeling of the Members at thel meeting at Liverpool coincided with that which existed at- the present meeting, and the Liverpool meeting had passed. resolutions to the same effect as those now adopted.

Mr. KENNETH CORNISH considered some modificationshould be introduced in the bye-laws respecting the mode. of election of members of the Board of Examiners.; The meeting then agreed that a copy of the resolutions; should be forwarded to the Council of the Royal College of

Surgeons and to the Secretary of State for the Home. Department.

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bpolis, asking their co-operation in the carrying out of a_ combined drainage scheme prepared by Sir Joseph Bazal-r gette. The salient features, which comply as far as possible3 with the recommendations of the Royal Commission onr Sewage Disposal, are the laying of a main collecting sewer3 from Chiswick to Acton, Ealing, and through Willesden, andt northwards through the parishes of Leyton, Edmonton,; Tottenham, and then eastwards to Barking, where the1, sewage will be treated before it is passed into the River1 Thames. The liquid sewage, after it has been chemicallys treated at suitably constructed works, will be filtered

through a certain area of land. Some of the boards have1 refused to entertain the proposal, while others have promisede to give it consideration.

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