The appointment of Dr. Lockhart Robertson as Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy will be received with general satisfaction. Dr. Robertson is one of the leading authorities in this country on mental science, and is in every respect well fitted for the duties of a Visitor in Lunacy.—British Medical Journal, January 22.

On May 9th, John Meyer, M.D. Heidelberg, F.R.C.P. Lond., Superintendent of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Dr. Meyer was born in the year 1814, at Norwood, near London. He studied medicine at Heidelberg, where he graduated M.D. in 1886, and after a short residence in England, he left this country for Australia. In 1844 he was appointed Colonial Surgeon, and shortly after this he was placed in charge of the Hospital and Convict Lunatic Asylum at New Norfolk, in Tasmania. Returning to England on leave of absence during the Crimean war he was employed by the Government on matters connected with the hospital arrangements necessitated by that war, and eventually he was placed in charge of the Civil Hospital established in Smyrna, where he remained until the conclusion of hostilities. In 1858 he was appointed Chief Resident Physician of the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, and on the establishment of the Criminal Asylum at Broadmoor, he was in 1862 appointed its superintendent. In the spring of 1866 he received from a patient a severe injury over the left temple, and from the effects of this injury he never completely rallied. A rapid journey on May 3rd to the West of England, undertaken at a moment's notice, in consequence of the sudden illness of a near relative, still further enfeebled a constitution already much shaken Symptoms which were considered to be the precursors of an attack of fever shewed themselves on the day after this journey, and although on Saturday, May 7th, the attempt to return home was made, Dr. Meyer was unable to proceed farther than Exeter. There he received the kindest attention from Dr. Drake and Mr. Cumming, of that city, but throughout Sunday life slowly ebbed, and on Monday morning, May 9th, far away from home and family, he breathed his last.

It is with great regret that we record the premature death of Dr. Henry Law Kempthorne, who though only twenty-nine years of age, had already given evidence of great attainments in that branch of the profession to which he was devoted

At the early age of thirty-seven, an accomplished physician has been lost to the profession in Dr. George William Lawrence, who died on the 22nd ult., at Layer Breton Hall. Educated at King's College, of which he was an Associate, he graduated M.B. Lond. in 1857 and in 1859. He held the posts of housephysician to King's College Hospital and of lecturer on botany at Middlesex Hospital; and afterwards devoted himself to the specialty of lunacy. He was successively resident physician at the Camberwell House Lunatic Asylum and medical superintendent of the Cambridge County Asylum—a situation from which increasing ill-health compelled him, in 1867, to seek the retirement of the superannuation list.—“Lancet,”