Miscellany.

Appointments, Honors, etc.-Prof. Conner, of the Medical College of Ohio, has been appointed to the chair of Surgery in the Dartmouth Medical College, in place of the late Prof Crosby. Prof. Louis H. Duhring has received the appointment of Dermatologist to the Philadelphia Hospital. Dr. J. Herbert Claiborne has been elected President of the Virginia State Medical Society.

Dr. Thomas Stevenson has been appointed to the chair of Medical Jurisprudence at Guy's Hospital, vacant by the resignation of Dr. A. Swayne Taylor. Dr. Edward Hamilton has been elected President of the Pathological Society of Dublin. Thomas Darby, F. R. C. S. I., has been elected President of the Obstetrical Society of Dublin for the session of 1877-'78. Dr. Joseph Patrick Pye has been appointed to the chair of Anatomy and Physiology in Queen's College, in place of Dr. Cleland. Dr. J. Halliday Croom has been elected one of the Ordinary Physicians of the Royal Maternity Hospital, Edinburgh, in place of Dr. J. Matthews Duncan. Cambridge University, England, has conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws upon Charles Darwin. Prof. Köbner, of Breslau, has resigned his clinics for skin-diseases and syphilis, on account of illness. He is succeeded temporarily by Dr. Oscar Simon, of Berlin.

Death from Ether.-The Medical Times and Gazette of November 17th reports the death on November 5th of a Miss Steele, during the administration of ether, for a proposed operation for cancer of the breast. After a few inhalations the face became turgid and the hands white, and, though active measures were immediately adopted, the patient died a few seconds later. A post-mortem examination showed the heart to be feeble and flabby, and to have undergone fatty degeneration. "The right side of the heart was gorged with blood, the walls of the right ventricle very thin, and there were some nodules of cancer in the liver and lungs. The

cause of death here seems evidently to have been that the emphysematous condition of the lungs prevented the passage of blood through the pulmonary vessels."

The Antiseptic Method in Surgery.-We direct attention to Dr. Weir's full and practical exposition of Lister's method, of which the second part appears in this issue of the JOURNAL. While the method is on trial before the profession, it is particularly important that it should be practiced thoroughly, if at all; and thoroughness means scrupulous attention to the minutest details. What those details are, it is the object of Dr. Weir's paper to teach.

An Equable Climate.-Dr. Jamieson describes the climate of Swatow, China, as one of the most delightful in the world. The maximum temperature in the six months ending July 30, 1877, was 88°, and in the nights of the hottest days the mercury fell to 79° and 81°. There is always a refreshing sea-breeze, and invalids find the weather at all seasons genial and invigorating.

Medical Education in Canada.-It is rumored that a new medical school is to be established in Montreal-a branch of Laval University, of Quebec. There are already four schools of medicine in the province of Quebec, and it is proposed to change the law regarding the length of the session, so as to oblige all schools to extend the course of instruction to a period of nine months.

Journalistic Notes. In the December number of the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal Drs. William S. Edgar and D. V. Dean announce that their connection with that publication ceases. Dr. Thomas F. Rumbold has become editor and proprietor, with Dr. Hiram Christopher as associate editor.

Cinchona Culture in Jamaica.-Since the plantation of cinchona was begun in Jamaica, in 1860, every year has added largely to the industry, and there are now about eighty thou

sand trees in the government plantations in that island. Their estimated value is about five dollars each.

Report on Laryngology.-Owing to the large amount of surplus material in type we are obliged to omit Dr. Lefferts's Report on Laryngology, which is of unusual interest this time. It will certainly appear in the February number.

Army Intelligence.

Official List of Changes of Stations and Duties of Officers of the Medical Department, United States Army, from November 14 to December 13, 1877.

ALEXANDER, C. T., Major and Surgeon.-Assigned to duty as Post Surgeon at Fort Vancouver, W. T. S. O. 167, C. S., Department of the Columbia.

CLEMENTS, B. A., Major and Surgeon.-Assigned to duty at Camp Douglas, U. T. S. O. 131, Department of the Platte, November 14, 1877.

STORROW, S. A., Major and Surgeon.-Relieved from duty in Department of California, and to report in person to commanding general Department of the Platte for assignment. S. O. 232, A. G. O., November 13, 1877.

WOLVERTON, W. E., Major and Surgeon.-To accompany four companies of Seventh Cavalry, detached for field-duty. S. Ö. 169, Department of Dakota, December 5, 1877.

NOTSON, W. M., Major and Surgeon.-Assigned to duty at Fort McKinney, W. T. S. O. 135, Department of the Platte, November 24, 1877.

GIBSON, J. R., Major and Surgeon.-Assigned to duty at Fort D. A. Russell, W. T. S. O. 132, Department of the Platte, November 16, 1877.

WALTERS, W. E., Captain and Assistant Surgeon.-To accompany Batallion Second Artillery from Carlisle Barracks, Pa., to Texas, and, upon arrival there, report to the commanding general of the department for assignment to duty. S. O. 246, A. G. O., December 5, 1877.

KOERPER, E. A., Captain and Assistant Surgeon.-Assigned to duty at Fort Sanders, W. T. S. O. 133, Department of the Platte, November 17,

1877.

KIMBALL, J. P., Captain and Assistant Surgeon.-Relieved from duty in Department of the East, and assigned to duty at Fort Columbus, N. Y. H. S. O. 250, A. G. O., December 10, 1877.

LORING, L. Y., Captain and Assistant Surgeon.-Leave of absence extended five months. S. O. 243, C. S., A. G. O.

PATZKI, J. H., Captain and Assistant Surgeon.-Granted leave of absence for six months, with permission to go beyond sea. S. O. 243, C. S., A. G. O.

MUNN, C. E., Captain and Assistant Surgeon.-Assigned to duty at Sidney Barracks, Neb. S. O. 132, C. S., Department of the Platte.

COWDREY, S. G., Captain and Assistant Surgeon.-Assigned to duty at Fort Cameron, U. T. Ŝ. O. 135, C. S., Department of the Platte.

DICKSON, J. M., Captain and Assistant Surgeon.-Assigned to duty as Post Surgeon at Fort Klamath, Oregon. S. O. 171, Department of the Columbia, November 20, 1877.

WINNE, C. K., First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon.-Assigned to duty at Fort McPherson, Neb. S. O. 132, C. S., Department of the Platte.

MOSELY, E. B., First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon.-Assigned to duty at Camp Robinson, Neb. S. O. 132, C. S., Department of the Platte.

FINLEY, J. A., First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon.-Granted leave of absence for one month, with permission to apply for two months' extension. S. O. 221, Department of the Missouri, December 6, 1877.

HALL, W. R., First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon.-Assigned to duty as Post Surgeon at Fort Stevens, Oregon. S. Ö. 168, Department of the Columbia, November 15, 1877.

BARNETT, R., First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon.-Leave of absence extended one month. S. O. 275, Division of the Atlantic, Decenber 11, 1877.

TURRILL, H. S., First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon.-Assigned to temporary duty at these headquarters. S. O. 201, Department of Texas, November 30, 1877.

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NEWLANDS, W. L., First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon. - Relieved from duty at San Diego, Cal., and to report in person at these headquarters for assignment. S. O. 153, Division of the Pacific, and Department of California, December 3, 1877.

CORBUSIER, W. H., First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon. — Assigned to duty at Camp Sheridan, Neb. S. O. 133, C. S., Department of the Platte.

Obituary.

WILLIAM RICHARD BASHAM, M. D., F. R. C. P., whose death occurred recently, was born in the year 1804, and had long occupied a prominent place in the profession to which he was devoted. In 1843 he was appointed physician to Westminster Hospital, and filled the duties of that office for a period of thirty-four years. He was an active member of the Hospital School, and held successively the chairs of Botany, Mate

ria Medica, and Medicine, and was very popular as a teacher. He is best known in this country by his excellent works on renal diseases.

DR. WENZEL LINHART, Professor of Clinical Surgery in Würzburg, died October 22, 1877, aged fifty-six years. He had filled the chair of Surgery for more than twenty years.

MR. JAMES FLOWER, of London, distinguished for his skill in the preparation and articulation of skeletons, died October 30th, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. He numbered among his friends and patrons the most eminent anatomists of the day, and had work-rooms provided for him, with assistants, by the Royal College of Surgeons.

PROF. WUNDERLICH, who died September 25, 1877, was born in 1815, and received his diploma in 1837. He was appointed professor in his thirty-first year, and at the same time began his great work on Pathology and Therapeutics. We have not space to refer in detail to his many contributions to medical literature. His name will ever be associated with the grand advances in medicine effected by the use of the clinical thermometer in disease.

DR. EDWARD H. CLARKE, of Boston, died in that city November 30th, in his fifty-seventh year. Dr. Clarke graduated in the University of Pennsylvania in 1846. In 1855 he was appointed Professor of Materia Medica in the Harvard Medical School, and held that position seventeen years. He was eminently successful as a lecturer, and his written contributions to the literature of medicine were always read with interest. He was the author of the popular little work entitled "Sex in Education."

DR. W. HANDSEL GRIFFITHS, whose death occurred November 16th, at the age of thirty-one, had already accomplished a vast amount of professional work, and gave promise of a brilliant and honorable future. His contributions to medical literature, chiefly bearing on therapeutics, are of a high order of merit.