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SCARLATINAL KIDNEYS.

THE interesting contribution to the Pathological Anatomyand Histology of Scarlatina, appearing in the pages of theBirmingham Medical Review, from the pen of Dr. GeorgeCrook, whilst confirming the general truth of Klein’s histo-logical observations on the changes in the arteries and

arterioles, states that the hyaline change is not met with sofrequently or so well marked as Klein described. "Intersti-tial changes are undoubtedly rare in the first week, but intwo cases their presence in the form of cellular infiltra-tions around the glomeruli, and in patches along the vesselsin the labyrinth, could not be overlooked."

FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

Berlin.-Professor B. Fraenkel has just commenced workin his newly established University Policlinic for Nose andThroat Diseases.-Dr. Thorn, assistant medical officer ofProfessor Olshausen’s University Gynæcological Clinic, hasbeen appointed to succeed Dr. Hofmeier, who has gone toGiessen.

Buda-Pesth.-Professor Jos. Wagner, Director of theSecond Medical Clinic, having held the professorship forforty years, is about to retire.Dorpat.-Dr. Weil, Professor of Special Pathology and

Therapeutics, who has been away during the winter endea-vouring to recruit his health in the south, not having derivedas much benefit as was anticipated from the climatic change,is now unfortunately obliged to relinquish all hope of

Teturning to his work, and is therefore resigning his chair.Kieff.—The medical library of the late Professor E. E.

Miram has been presented to the University.Prague (Bohemian University).-Dr. Karl Pawlik of

Vienna has been appointed Professor of Midwifery and

Gynæcology.St. Petersburg.-Mdme. Auer, daughter of the late Dr. E.

V. Pelikan, has given her father’s valuable library to theMilitary Medical Academy.-Drs. Hertsenstein, Gendenreicb,Cydakoff, and Sirotinin have been recognised as privat-,docenten.

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IT is officially announced that the Dean of Westminsterhas received the Queen’s permission, and also the sanctionof Her Majesty’s First Commissioner of Works and of theLord Chamberlain, to repeat the Jubilee service in the

Abbey on Wednesday, 22nd inst., at 3 P.M. The service,which will include musical additions, will be held for thebenefit of London hospitals. One third of the proceeds willbe given to the Hospital Sunday Fund, which this year willose the annual collection in the Abbey, one third to West-minster Hospital, and the remaining third will be dividedbetween the Hospital Saturday Fund and the WesternDispensary. Tickets, at prices ranging from one pound tohalf-a-crown, will be issued by the Secretary of West-minster Hospital, to whom alone application shouldbe made.

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THE recent inquiry into the charges made against theHealth Committee of the Manchester Corporation by theelective auditors has resulted in the finding that no chargesof fraud have been sustained against any member of the’committee or the committee’s responsible officers, and thatthe shortcomings were no more than might be discoveredin any other concern, public or private, of equal sue.

AT a meeting of Convocation of the University of Oxfordon the 9th inst. a grant of £100 a year for three years forthe purpose of providing instruction in materia medica andpharmacy was carried by 38 votes to 1&:

WE regret to announce the death of Mr. J. Beswick

Perrin, M.R.C.S. E., of Leigh, Lancashire. Mr. Perrin wasfor some years Demonstrator of Anatomy in King’s College,London, and afterwards at Owens College, Manchester, andwill be remembered by many old friends and pupils as amost able dissector, an ardent anatomist, and an excellentteacher. After leaving Manchester, he settled in practice atLeigh, and soon became extremely popular and much

respected in the district. In his earlier days he wrote manyinteresting and valuable anatomical papers in the MedicalTimes and Gazette, the Journal of Anatomy and Physioloygy,and the Transactions of the Zoological Society.

THE election of an Assistant Physician to the RoyalAlexandra Hospital for Sick Children, Brighton, took placelast week, there being six candidates, all of whom were

highly qualified. Mr. W. C. Chaffey, M.B. Lond., late regis-trar to the Great Ormond-street Hospital, London, waselected by the Committee of Election, who had no personalknowledge of him; he was chosen purely on the ground ofmerit. The elections at this hospital being carried outby an Election Committee, canvassing either directly orthrough an agent disqualifies candidates.

THE borough of Oldham is about to receive a charter asa quarter sessions district, which will entail the appoint-ment of a borough coroner. The only medical candidateis Dr. George Thomson, his opponents so far being allmembers of the legal profession. Our views of the ques-tion of medical coroners are well known, and we wish Dr.Thomson every success in his candidature.

ANOTHER outbreak of diphtheria has occurred on theDanish corvette Dagmar, which recently left Sheerness toresume her training cruise in the North Sea. The patientshave been admitted by the naval authorities to the in-fectious wards of Melville Hospital, where three of theDagmar’s crew have been confined since the 29th ult.

AT the last meeting of the Royal Medical and ChirurgicalSociety, Professors W. H. Flower, Michael Foster, and SirWilliam Turner were elected Honorary Fellows, and Pro-fessors John S. B llings, Frederick Esmarch, and Richardvon Volkmann, Foreign Honorary Fellows of the Society;Dr. S. J. Gee was elected Honorary Librarian.

THE Queen has been pleased to appoint James PatrickTulloch, M.B., colonial surgeon for the Island of Tobago,to be an official member of the Legislative Council of thatisland.

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A SEVERE epidemic of measles is raging at Winsford,Cheshire. The whole of the schools in the town are closed.

TESTIMONIAL TO MR. GODART.--It is proposed topresent a testimonial to Mr. Godart upon the occasion ofhis departure for Sydney after thirty-seven years’ service aspathological and anatomical draughtsman in the MedicalSchool of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. A meeting will beheld in the anatomical theatre on Saturday, July 2nd, at1 P,M., to determine the form which the testimonial shalltake. Subscriptions may be sent before that date to Mr.D’Arcy Power, Curator of the Museum, 26, Bloomsbury-square, W.C.

A PHYSICIAN ATTACKED BY ROBBERS IN HAVANA.——Dr. Vincente de la Guardia, a much-esteemed physician inHavana, was recently attacked and robbed in or near thecity. He defended himself with vigour, but was unfortu-nately wounded