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curing or considerably alleviating a disease hitherto con-sidered as incurable.-Prix Cajpto-OH : " On the Precursoryand Concomitant Phenomena of the Lacteal Secretion."1000 francs.-Prix Ernest Godard: The best work" On aQuestion of Internal Complaints." 1000 francs. -Prix;

Orfilcc " On Digitaline and Digitalis. Isolate dig-italine.Make out the chemical characters which may in medico-legal researches, serve to demonstrate the existence of

digitalis, and that of digitaline. What are the pathologicalchanges which these substances may leave behind in casesof poisoning? To what extent, and in what measure, may beinvoked, and ought to be invoked, experimentation with theejected matter on animals, with those discovered in thesystem, and with those produced by analysis, as an indica-tion or a proof of the existence of the poison and ofpoisoning." 6000 francs.-Prix Itard: To the author of thebest work or memoir " On a Question of Practical Medicineor Applied Therapeutics." In order that the works mayhave stood the test of time, they must have been

published for at least two years. 2700 francs.-Prix Rufuzde Laiisotv " Establish by means of exact and numerousfacts on men and on animals, passing from one climateto another, the modifications, the functional changes,and organic lesions which may be attributed to accli-matisation." 2000 francs.-Prix Marquis d’Ourches: AA prize of 20,000 francs for the discovery of a simple andordinary means of recognising in a certain and undoubtedmanner the signs of real death." The express condition ofthis prize is that the means may be of easy practice, andmay be employed by the most illiterate peasant. 2. A

prize of 5000 francs for the discovery of a means of recog-nising in a certain and undoubted manner the signs of realdeath by the aid of electricity, of galvanism, or of anyother proceeding requiring the intervention of a skilledperson, or the application of knowledge, or the use of pecu-liar instruments or substances which are not within thereach of everybody.-Prix St. Lager: To the experimenterwho shall have produced a thyroidean tumour by the ad-ministration to animals of substances extracted from thewaters or the soil of countries where goitre is endemic.1500 francs.The prizes for 1871 are as follows : - Prix de l’ Académie : :

H On Hæmorrhagic Jaundice." 1000 francs. - Prix .BoronPorta7: " On a question of Pathological Anatomy." 1000francs. - Prix Bernard de Civrieux: :"On the employment ofBromide of Potassium in Nervous Diseases." 900 francs. -Prix du Baron Ba1’bier: : As above. 3000 francs. - Prix Ca-

puron: "On the Relative Frequency of Occipito-posteriorPositions in the Head-presentation, and their Influence onthe Labour." 2000 francs.-Prix Ernest Godard To the bestwork on Internal Pathology. 1000 francs. - Prix Amussat: :To the author of a work or of researches based simulta-

neously upon Anatomy and Experimentation, which willhave most markedly contributed to the advance of SurgicalTherapeutics. 1000 francs.

Obituary.DR. ANDREW ANDERSON.

THE ranks of the profession in Glasgow have lately beenthinned by death; but few of those carried to the rear willbe more poignantly regretted than Dr. Andrew Anderson,who died on Friday, the 28th ult., in the fifty-third year ofhis age. The deceased gentleman was a son of the lateJames Anderson, Esq., Manager of the Union BankingCompany of Scotland, and, consequently, a great-grandsonof the distinguished founder of the Andersonian University- an institution in which the late Doctor held the Chair ofPractice of Physic for well-nigh twenty years. He gradu-ated in Medicine at the University of Glasgow in 1839, andwas elected Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Sur-geons of the same city in 1840. His contributions to the

literature of the profession were " Ten Lectures introduc-tory to the Study of Fever ;" " Heads of Lectures on thePractice of Medicine;5’ and several papers on a Oph-

thalmia," "Scurvy," Valvular Disease of the Hea.rt," &c.,in the Edinburgh Medical Journal. He filled the posts ofsurgeon to the Eye Infirmary and assessor to one of th2medical classes in the University of Glasgow ; while onlytwo years ago he ’was elected President of the Faculty ofPhysicians and Surgeons. In this position, as well as in hisrapidly-increasiJ2g" practice as one of the leading consultingphysicians of Glasgow and the West of Scotland, his scien-tific and general acquirements were winning for him anesteem which advancing years might prolong, but could not’diminish. He leaves a widow and son to deplore a losswhich will be keenly felt by the many who knew him as anable man, an accomplished physician, and a genial andsteadfast friend. a

COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.

WE understand that at the last meeting of the Councilof the College, Mr. John Simon gave notice of the followingimportant motion, which will come on for discussion in duecourse on Thursday next:—" That, for the future, in theopinion of this Council, the two omces of examiner andcouncillor of the College ought, as far as practicable, to bemade disqualifications each for the other, and that a com-mittee, with power to take legal advice, be appointed toconsider and report to the Council as to the steps by whicheffect may be given to this principle, prospectively, as vacan-cies occur: ’ We need hardly say that this resolution, if

carried, will cut at the root of one of the greatest abuses ofthe College, against which we have for years protested.

Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON. - At

the ordinary quarterly meeting of the College on Jan. 27th,the following gentlemen, having duly passed the requiredexaminations, were admitted Members of the College :-

Poore, Geo. Vivian, M.B. Lond., University College Hospital.Sutherland, Henry, M.B. Oxon., Richmond-terrace, Whitehall.Woodman, W. Bathur,;t, M.D. St. And., Finsbury-pavement.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND. - Atmeetings of the Court of Examiners on the 27th and 28thult., the following candidates, having passed the finalexamination for the diploma, were duly admitted Membersof the College :-

Atkinson, Arthur, Hull.Briggs, Henry Middleton, Tipton, Staffordshire.Buller, Frank, M.D. Toronto, Campbellford, Canada.*Burdett, David E., M.B. Toronto, Belleville, Ontario, Canada.Connolly, Benjamin B., Woolwich.Daphtary, Girdharlal Ratanlal, L.S.A., Bombay.Frost, Richard Russell, Launceston, Cornwall.Gillingham, Alfred, L.S.A., Peekham-rye.Goude, Herbert, Fmsbury-square.Gray, Clement Frederick, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire.Grover, John Polliugton, L.S.A., Lewis.Jelly, William, Edinburgh.Leake, George D. N., L.S.A., Twickenham.Lovell, William D., L.R.C.P.Edin., Croydon.Lowe, Walter George, Burton-on-Trent.Nettle, William, L.S.A., Liskeard, Cornwall.Pearce, Williarii, L.S.A., Holsworthy, North Devon.Perigal, Arthur, 1I.B. Edm., Edinburgh.Rees, William Carey, .1l.B. Melbourne, Melbourne.Rosse, Henry John, Blaxhall, near Wi,-kham-iDarl-,et.Rowell, George, Dilston-park, Northumberland.Russell, Logan D. H., M.D. New York, Wilmington, United Sta:cs.Skinner, James Charles, Tunstall, Norfolk.Symes, Edmond West, Berkeley-square.Temple, Thomas Cameron, Nottingham.Thom, George, Tooting-common.Thorp, Brook, Holmflrth, near Huddersfield.Vickers, William, Donesster.Vines, Henry Jeckell Kendrick, L.R.C.P. Edin., Reading.Wade, William, M.D. Toronto, Cubourg, Canada.Walker, Archibald Dunbar, M.B.. Edin., Edinburgh.Widdifield, J. Henry, -II.D. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

I * Passed under the old regulations.

Four other candidates were admitted to examination onthe above-named days, but failed to satisfy the Court ofExaminers, and were referred for a period of six months’: further professional studv.