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d’Estrees of Contrexéville, Maret of Bagnères de Luchon(silver medals) ; Bondant, of Mont Dore; Dubuc, ofAudinac; Pupier, of Vichy; Planche, of Sylvanès, &c. &c.

(bronze medals).CLAUDE BERNARD’S LECTURES ON GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY.

On June 4th, Claude Bernard opened his course of lee-tures, at the General Museum, with a general or inauguraldiscourse, which was very successful. This year the pro-fessor will treat of the general characters of life in the twokingdoms. He will begin with theoretical lectures in theAmphitheatre of Comparative Anatomy, and conclude withdemonstrative and practical lectures in the laboratory ofthe Museum.

CONCOURS FOR THE PARIS HOSPITAL.

After a series of very trying tests the last concours forthe nomination of three hospital physicians has ended inthe appointment of Drs. Legroux, Rendu, and Gourand.

THE NEW PROFESSOR OF SURGICAL PATHOLOGY.

The assembly of professors of the Paris School have justvoted by a majority the appointment of Dr. Felix Guyon,the well-known surgeon of Necker, to the Chair of SurgicalPathology, left vacant by the death of Professor Dolbeau.

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LILLE.

The governors of the Catholic University of Lille havebeen most active and energetic in organising this newFrench university. They have bought immense groundsin a special quarter of Lille, where a palace will be built forthe purpose of containing the various faculties or colleges,law, science, letters, medicine, theology, &c. Various smalleredifices are to be built for the dignitaries and professorsof the university. There will also be a special school oftrades and arts connected with the other colleges.

Paris, June 12th, 1877.

Obituary.CHARLES W. M. S. GRAHAM, M.D.

DALKEITH, near Edinburgh, has lost one of its oldest andmost characteristic inhabitants in Dr. Graham, who diedthere on the 17th ult., in his eightieth year. Throughouthis long life he was rarely absent from the town, so thathe came to be associated with its most familiar features,from the High-street of his daily walk to the parish church,in whose graveyard he now rests. He was the youngest offour brothers, all medical practitioners, the sons of Dr.Andrew Graham, himself a surgeon, who came from Cold-stream to Dalkeith at the instance of the late Duke ofBuccleuch. He was educated at the Dalkeith Grammar-school, under its rector, Dr. Bell, and he passed from it,with the usual modicum of classics, to the University ofEdinburgh, there to qualify for the medical profession. Inthe intervals of study he assisted his father till he took hisdiploma as Licentiate of the Edinburgh College of Surgeons,in 1822, after which his first destination, like that of thethird son, Dr. Andrew Graham, was the West Indies. Hewent to the island of Tobago; but colonial practice wasnot to his liking, so he soon returned to Dalkeith to attendthe family clientole, which, since his father’s death, had de-volved on the eldest son, Dr. Walter Graham. Dr. Walterdied in 1827, and Charles, from being his assistant, becamehis sole successor. In 1830 he graduated as Doctor ofMedicine in the University of Edinburgh, and from thatdate to within a few years of his death was recognised asthe leading practitioner in the town and district.The life of a general practitioner in the country leaves

small leisure for contributions to the literature of the pro-fession. Dr. Graham, like the majority of his brethren,wrote little, but what he did write was sound and good. Hecontributed to the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journala paper on " The Internal Use of Sulphate of Zinc in Gleetand LeucorrhcM," which Sir Robert Christison speciallycommends in his " Dispensatory," and two articles in thesame periodical on "Cholera Asphyxia" and "Hsemate.mesis" are also from his pen. But his true andmost congenial work was in the sick-room and bythe bedside, and there his knowledge and judgmentwere rarely at fault-his painstaking kindness never.

By tradition and temperament Dr. Graham was a loverof the ,old paths"; but it was an enlightened love-none the less deliberate and hearty that he fullyappreciated the " new," with which to the last he kept up areading acquaintance. Indeed, few private medical librarieswere so rich or so constantly renovated as his, and he took adeep and active interest in the improvement-educationaland social-of the profession, in connexion with which objecthe became a member of more than one Society. Like hisfather, he was surgeon to the Edinburgh County Militia; hewas a zealous promoter of the Medical Missionary Society;and in 1859 the Edinburgh College of Surgeons elected hima fellow. To young students or practitioners he was kindand hospitable in the largest sense, as more than one medicalofficer in the military and naval services could attest. Ofthese the ablest and most promising was undoubtedly hisown nephew, Mr. John S. Peddie, whose bright career, whilesurgeon on board H.M.S. Terror, in Sir John Franklin’s lastexpedition, was quenched amid the Arctic snows.

Dr. Graham will long be missed from his native town,and from the professional gatherings in Edinburgh. Histall, handsome figure and distinguished bearing, enhancedby a fastidiousness in dress which smacked of 11 the dayswhen George the Fourth was King," were welcome alwaysand everywhere. Indeed, the whole ensemble of the manwas such as might give character to a novel in quiet life,for not a trace of austerity or affectation marred its genialoutlines, but only the humblest piety gave them increasingpurity and mellowness, till they vanished, almost imperceptibly, in a beautiful decay.

PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Thursday, June 7th.HOSPITAL SERVICE.

IN reply to a question by Sir H. Havelock, Mr. SecretaryHARDY stated that certain infantry battalions at Aldershothave been ordered to select men at the rate of two per com-pany to be instructed as regimental stretcher-bearers inconnexion with the Army Hospital Corps.

Monday, June llth.SANITARY STATE OF THE METROPOLIS.

Mr. BAILLIE COCHRANE gave notice that on an early dayhe would call the attention of the House to the disgracefulstate of the streets of the metropolis, especially in the dis-tricts of Chelsea, Belgravia, and Knightsbridge, which, ifnot attended to, might renew this summer the evils offormer years; and would ask the Home Secretary whetherhe will introduce any Bill to give the Government greatercontrol over the vestries, and to compel the publication oftheir revenue and expenditure accounts, so that the publicmay know how much of the large amount now levied byrates is expended on sanitary arrangements.

Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND. -

The following Members, having passed the required exami-nation for the Fellowship on May 31st, and lst, 2nd, and4th inst., were, at a meeting of the Council held on Thursdaylast, duly admitted Fellows of the College :-

Birch, Edward Arnold, L.R.C.P. Lond., Manchester; diploma of Memberdated April, 1873.

Bennett, William Henry, L.R.C.P. Lond., James-street ; July, 1873.Colgate, Henry, M.D., L.R.C.P. Lond., Eastbourne ; July, 1872.Duncan, Andrew, M.D. Lond., Henrietta-street; July, 1872.Edmunds, Walter, B.A., M.B. Cantab., Hampstead; January, 1875.Gould, Alfred Pearce. M.B., L.R.C.P. Lond., Gower-street; July, 1873.Harries, Thomas Davies, L.R.C.P. Lond., Aberystwith; May, 1873.Hobson, Lewis John, M.B. Lond., Bedford; July, 1875.Ottley, Walter, M.B. Lond., Nottingham-place; July, 1872.Pitts, Bernard, Oundle, Northamptonshire; January, 1875.Pratt, William, M.D. Liege, Newtown, Montgomeryshire; July, 1876.Ransohoff, Joseph, M.D. Ohio, Cincinnati; April, 1877.Rendall, John, L.R.C.P. Lond., Southampton; April, 1874.Rogers, Thomas King, L.R.C.P. Lond., Southgate-road; January, 1876.Southam, Frederick Armitage, B.A. Oxon., Manchester; April, 1876.Alexander, Wm., M.D. Queen’s Univ. Irel., Liverpool. (Not a Member.)

Six candidates failed to satisfy the Court of Examiners, andwere referred for twelve months’ further professional study.