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and received all the honours which in France are conferredon eminent men of science.He had had hard times, however, inbis early career. He

began life at Montpellier (where he was born) under difficultcircumstances. At the age of about twenty-four, in 1826,whilst searching for traces of iodine in some specimens froma salt-marsh, he was able to isolate a new substance-bro-mine. At that time he was a modest student, living on thelast floor of an old hotel in Montpellier.Balard was successively nominated as chemist, then pro-

fessor, at the School of Pharmacy and Faculty of Sciencesat Montpellier. On the death of Thenard, the greatchemist, he was calied to Paris to take the chair of Chemistryleft vacant at the Academy of Sciences.He was universally liked on account of his amiable quali-

ties and his constant obligingness to all who cultivatedscience.NOMINATION OF PROFESSORS AT THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE.

The Minister of Public Instruction has ratified the choicemade by the Professors of the School of two new Professorsto fill the chairs of Internal Pathology and History of Medi-cine, which were left vacant by the promotion of Dr. Hardyto the clinical chair at H6pital Necker and the death of theregretted Lorain. Dr. Potain has therefore been officiallyappointed to the chair of Internal Pathology and Dr. Parrotto that of History of Medicine.

The General Association of Medical Men in France willhold its annual meeting here on Sunday next. It isexpected that it will be a very full one, and that a greatmany members from the provinces will attend. The meet-ing will not include any scientific debates or work. It willbe strictly a business meeting, where the prospects of theAssociation will be discussed and any measures of reformproposed. It will end, as usual, in a public dinner, to begiven at the Grand Hotel.A law regulating the distribution of medical assistance to

the poor in the country districts has just been laid on thetable of the National Assembly by the Minister of PublicInstruction, M. Waddington.Dr. Brown-Sequard has been nominated Professor of

Physiology in the new Faculty of Medicine of Geneva. TheCouncil of State made some other nominations at the sametime, and appointed Dr. d’Espine, Professor of InternalPathology; Dr. Prevost, Professor of Therapeutics; Dr.Viellet, Professor of Clinical Medicine; and Dr. Gosse,Professor of Forensic Medicine.

Paris, April 17th, 1876.

Obiturary.CAMPBELL DE MORGAN, F.R.S.

MR. DE MORGAN, the senior surgeon of the MiddlesexHospital, whose death we reported last week, was the

youngest of the three sons of Colonel De Morgan, of theIndian army. He was born at Clovelly, near Bideford, inthe year 1811, and his father died during his childhood,leaving his widow, a clever woman, with small means tomaintain and educate his children. The elder brother,Augustus De Morgan, the well-known mathematician, wasProfessor of Mathematics at University College, and diedin 1871. Campbell De Morgan commenced his medicalcareer as a student at University College, and afterwardsbecame house-surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital. In De-cember, 1842, he was appointed assistant-surgeon, and onthe retirement of Mr. Tuson he was elected one of thesenior surgeons to that institution. Mr. De Morgan wasa man of great accomplishments and unusual ability. Hewas elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for a paper onthe Structure and Development of Bone in 1853, which hehad written in conjunction with his friend Mr. Tomes. Hewrote the article 11 Erysipelas" in Holmes’s System ofSurgery, and published his views on the Local Origin ofCancer in his book on that subject in 1872. He also re-lated his experience on the origin of cancer in the very ableaddress with which he opened the debate on cancer at thePathological Society on March 7th, 1874. All that he saidon cancer was worthy of strict attention, for the disease

had been the study of his life, and his experience of nearlythirty-four years in the cancer wards of the Middlesex Hos-pital gave him the right to speak with authority. Hisconclusions were not hurriedly drawn, but were the resultof much thought and careful observation. The versatilityof his powers is shown in the lectureships which he heldin succession at the Middlesex Hospital. In 1841 hewas appointed lecturer on Forensic Medicine, and in 1845he succeeded Mr. Tuson to the chair of Anatomy. Heafterwards lectured for many years on Physiology, and,on the retirement of Mr. Shaw, became the sole lectureron Surgery. In addition to his scientific attainments hewas a good musician, and thoroughly understood the scienceof music. He was also a very clever draughtsman, andpossessed a wonderful facility for drawing caricatures.

Mr. De Morgan was a man of great character, with strongreligious feelings and dominant convictions. Every act of hislife was regulated by his own rigid laws of what was right.It was this high standard of character which secured to himso many friends, but it was also the cause of his makingsome enemies. His manner was very reticent and some-times cynical; he was a good observer and accurate in allthat he did. Although strict and punctual in the dischargeof every duty, he possessed a seeming apathy and anapparent indifference to worldly success. He held beforehimself the straight and narrow road of right. His voicewas strong against fraud and overgreed for fees, butalthough he denounced the bad he never envied theirprosperity.His loss is greatly felt by all connected with the Middlesex

Hospital, for he was a tie between the old and presentstudents, and by his death the link has been severed. Hehad been associated with the school ever since its formationin 1835, and in his day he had served with Sir Charles Bell,Sir Thomas Watson, Herbert Mayo, Moncrieff Arnott, andothers of the old Middlesex staff, and in him were collectedall the traditions of the bygone days.

His influence amongst the students was strong for good,and by all he was highly respected. His last act in thisworld corresponded to the tenour of his life; it was oneof kindness to a dying man. On Thursday, April 6th,he was apparently in his usual health, and on thatnight he sat up with his old friend Lough, the artist,who was seriously ill, and died the following day. He re-turned home in the cold of the early morning, and aboutten o’clock on Friday was seized with the severe rigorwhich ushered in the illness which terminated in hisdeath on the morning of April 12th. Few men are mournedand missed like Campbell de Morgan. His great kindnessand extreme liberality are known only to those who havebeen benefited by him. He never spoke of his deeds, butthere are left to sorrow over his loss those to whom hetruly behaved as a father to the fatherless.He was married to a Miss Hobson about the year 1846.

He had the misfortune to lose his wife about seventeen yearsago. The loss was deeply felt, and from it he never com-pletely recovered. He has left two sons; the eldest, in the

, Bengal Eogineers, was in India at the time of his death, butthe younger was with his father at the last.

Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.

At a meeting of the Council on the 13th inst. the followingmembers were elected Fellows of the College :-

Hough, James, L.S.A., Cambridge.Leigh, John, L.S.A, Pontypridd.Pollard, William, L.S.A, Torquay.

The following gentlemen having passed the required ex-amination for the diploma, were duly admitted Members ofthe College at meetings of the Court of Examiners on

the 18th and 19th inst. :-Atkinson, Richard, Carlisle.Barrs, Alfred G., M.D., Leicester.Batterbury, Richard L., M.B., Haverstock.hill.Best, George Payne, Brompton.Bowen, Edward, Southsea.Bradley, Robert, Shepherd’s-bush.Bradshaw, James D., Bowdon, Cheshire.Bruce, Robert, L.S.A., Old-street.Bull, James W., Chislehurst.Burnham, George H., M.B., Peterborough, Canada.