With the death of Dr. Edgar Sheppard one more of the past generation of Medical Superintendents has disappeared—a group that contained many men of great ability and courage, who at a somewhat critical period in asylum management so directed and established procedure that their successors have inherited the good results of their work in a way that they perhaps scarcely appreciate.

We regret to have to record the death of Mr. R. G. Smith, the eldest son of Dr. Smith, of the Durham County Asylum. He died at the early age of thirty-six, on 3 October last, while undergoing a second operation for fistula in ano. Mr. Smith graduated as M.A. of the University of Aberdeen, and afterwards became B.Sc.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng., and L.R.C.P.Lond. After serving as Assistant Medical Officer in the Durham, Whittingham, and Newcastle Asylums, he went as Medical Superintendent to Dunston Lodge Asylum, which position he occupied until his untimely death.

Dr. Jules Bernard Luys was born in Paris in 1828, and had just completed his sixty-ninth year when he died. He gained the position of interne of the Paris hospitals in 1853, took his degree in 1857, and became professeur agrégé in 1863, having been appointed Physician to the hospitals in 1862. He was first attached to the Salpêtrière, then to the Charité; he was also Director of the Lunatic Asylum of Ivry. He was elected a Member of he Academy of Medicine in 1877, and in the same year received the decoration of the Legion of Honour, being promoted to the grade of officer in 1895. In 1893 he retired. M. Luys founded, and for many years directed, L'Encéphale, a periodical devoted to nervous and mental diseases. He was the author of a number of works on neurology and the anatomy of the nervous system, for some of which prizes were awarded him by the Académie des Sciences. Among his works the principal are the following: Recherches sur le Système Nerveux Cérébro spinal (1865); Leçons sur les Maladies du Système Nerveux (1875); Le Cerveau et ses Fonctions (1878); Traité Clinique et Pratique des Maladies Mentales (1881); and Traitement de la Folie (1894).

We have to chronicle the death of Professor Heidenheim, at Breslau, on 13 October. His contributions to neurology were extensive and important. Professor Heidenheim will be chiefly remembered by psychologists by his little book on animal magnetism, which still remains authoritative.

The Library has been enriched by a handsome donation of books from the library of the late Dr. Bucknill, given by his heirs. The book-plates record the name of the donor or of the bequest, and the Library thus becomes a permanent record of those who have been interested in and connected with our Association.

118 candidates applied for admission to the November examination for this certificate. Of this number 88 were successful, 23 failed to satisfy the examiners, 1 withdrew, and the results of the examination of 6 candidates have not yet been received.

General Meeting.—The next General Meeting will be held in Sheffield on 16 February, 1898.

Philipson, George Hare, M.D., D.C.L., F.R.C.P., has been appointed Medical Visitor to the Dunston Asylum, Gateshead-on-Tyne, vice Dr. Embleton, retired.

Goldie-Scot, T., M.B.Edin., appointed Assistant Medical Officer to the Warreford Asylum, Oxford.