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children, and on Jan. 1st, 1889, there were 636 inmates. IHow the fire broke out is not quite clear, but it seems

to have been smouldering a considerable time before itwas discovered. Of the eighty-four boys in the two dormi-tories, only fifty-eight were rescued. It is a grievouscatastrophe, and one that should show the urgent necessityof care being taken to ensure having at hand the means ofescape in times of such emergency.

IMPECUNIOSITY OF THE HULL INFIRMARY.

WE regret to notice that this excellent institution is notadequately supported, and that, while the number of in-patients is largely increased, the amount of subscriptionshas diminished. Mr. Reckett, chairman of the FinanceCommittee, said at a meeting on the subject that notone-third of the inhabitants were subscribers. Takingone of the principal streets, occupied by some of the largestshopkeepers, there were forty-five shops and only seventeensubscribers, Yet it may be safely assumed that any inmateof these shops, if badly injured, would make for theinfirmary and be indignant if not received. Mr. Maxted, J. P.,suggested that the corporation Should increase its grant to?00 guineas.

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FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

.-. Dorpat.—The Russian Ministry of Education has issuedan Order providing for the more intimate control of theprofessorships by the Government. Hitherto a considerable

degree of autonomy has been permitted to the teachingstaff ; but this will now be more limited. the officials ofthe Education Department retaining the patronage in theirown hands.

Gratz.-Dr. Franz Muller has been promoted to an Extra-ordinary Professorship of Electro-diagnosa and Electro- therapeutics.Halle.-Dr. Paul Eisler has qualified as privat-docent in

Human and Comparative Anatomy.,Helsingfors.-This year is the 250th of the existence of

the University, which was founded in 1640 at Abo. It wasburnt down in 1820, and was then removed to Helsingfors,the new capital of Finland. During its existence it hascontributed largely to the higher education of the Finnishpeople. It has a small but flourishing medical faculty.Although belonging to Russia, Helsingfors is upon a quitedifferent footing from that of other Russian universities.The lectures are mostly delivered in the Swedish language,and most of the papers emanating from the professors arepublished in Scandinavian journals. There is, however,one medical journal published at Helsingfors in the Finnishlanguage, the title of which i Duodecim. Preparationsare being made for celebrating the 250th year of the

University’s existence in a befitting manner.Rostock. -Professor Tiemana of Berlin has been offered

the vacant Professorship of Chemistry.Warsaw.-Dr. Lapchinski has been appointed Professor

of Pathology and Therapeutics.

DEATHS OF EMINENT FOREIGN MEDICAL MEN.THE deaths of the following eminent foreign medical and

scientific men are announced:—Dr. Ferdinand Baumstark,Professor, of Chemistry in the University of Greifswald.-Professor Tijius Chalubinski, formerly Professor of ClinicalMedicine in the University of Warsaw. Thedeceasedpro-lessor resigned his chair in J871 owing to an order that hislectures should be delivered in Russian instead of in Polish,a change which he, from patriotic reasons, refused to

make.—Dr. Alexeï Dobroslavin, Professor of Hygiene inthe Medico-Chirurgical Military Academy, St. Petersburg.

THE Liverpool Evening Express says that the Apothe-caries’ Company are acting with vigour in prosecuting un-qualified practitioners in Birmingham, in some cases withno qualification whatever; they open a respectable-lookinghouse, put up a speaking tube and night bell, and placetheir names upon a red lamp. The Apothecaries’ Societywill earn the gratitude of all good people by such anexposure of fraud and impudence.

A SPECIAL course of lectures to barristers and lawstudents is to be delivered during the Hilary Term, 1890,at King’s College, London, on Mondays, Wednesdays, andFridays, at 4 P.M., by Prof. W. R. Smith, M.D., D.Sc.,F.R.S. Ed., barrister-at-law. This course"will be given withthe object of providing systematic instruction in medicaljurisprudence. The first lecture will be delivered on Monday,Jan. 13th..

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THE announcement of the death of Surgeon A. J.

Struthers, son of Professor Struthers of Aberdeen, whichtook place a few days ago from uraemia, will be receivedwith regret. The deceased surgeon had suffered severelyand for a long time from kidney disease, to relieve themore urgent symptoms of which hypodermic injections of

morphine had to be employed.

A MEETING of the General Medical Council of the BritishNurses’ Association will be held on Friday, the lOth inst.,at 20, Hanover-square, at 5 P.M., to receive the reportsfrom the executive committee, and to decide on the futurequalifications for membership of the Association.

PROFESSOR CANALIS, Director of the BacteriologicalInstitute in Rome, has been deputed by the Italian Govern-ment to proceed to St. Petersburg for the purpose of studyingthe bacteriology of the influenza which had its origin there.

IN the rooms of the Medical Society of London, onWednesday next, Jan. 8th, at 8.30 P.m., Mr. Jonathan

Hutchinson, F.R.S., will deliver an introductory addresson the Aims and Methods of the Post-graduate Course.

VISCOUNT CRANBROOK, Lord President of the Council,has appointed Sir Owen Roberts, Sir Hugh Owen, and Dr.Isambard Owen to be Governors of the University Collegeof North Wales at Bangor for five years, from Dec. 31st, 1889

DR. ROBERT BARNES has been elected an HonoraryMember and Dr. Fancourt Barnes an Honorary Corre-

sponding Member of the Societe Imperiale de Medecinede Constantinople.

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DR. G. GRANVILLE BANTOCK has been elected an

Honorary Member of the Societe Belge de Gynéeologie etd’Obst6triqlie.

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DR. ARNOLD CAHN, late first assistant to ProfessorKussmaul of Strassburg, has gone to Cannes for the wintermonths to attend Archduke Michael Nicholavich of Russia.

MR. HENRY MORRIS, M.A., M.B., surgeon to theMiddlesex Hospital, has been elected an Honorary Memberof the Medical Society of New York County.

PROFESSOR VON BERGMANN, who has been suffering frominflammation of the lungs for some weeks past, has so farrecovered that he hopes to resume. his work on Jan. 6th.