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DR. W. A. DuNCAN successfully removed the entireuterus per vaginam for malignant disease ou the 22nd inst.at the Royal Hospital for Women and Children, Waterloo-road. The patient is, we learn, progressing satisfactorily.

THE American medical journals announce the death of IDr. Calvin Ellis, Professor of Clinical Medicine in HarvardMedical College.

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MR. J. TREMEARNE of Victoria has removed by supra-pubic lithotomy a vesical stone consisting of pure cystine,weighing more than two ounces and a half (1254 grains).

MR. R. CLEMENT LucAS has been elected a correspondingmember of the Société de Chirurgie of Paris.

ENTERIC FEVER is reported to have broken out among thetroops in the permanent infantry barracks at Aldershot.

DINNER TO PROFESSOR OWEN.

ON Monday night a complimentary dinner was given atthe Holborn Restaurant by his colleagues to Professor SirRichard Owen, K.C.B., F.R.S., on the occasion of his retire-ment from the office of superintendent of the Department ofNatural History in the British Museum, Dr. Bond, principallibrarian, in the chair.

In proposing the health of the Queen, the Prince of Wales,and other members of the Royal Family,

Dr. BOND particularly referred to the kindness the Queenhad shown to the professor in her recognition of his talent andscientific work by inviting him to give instruction in scienceto the Royal Princes, in recommending him to the trusteesof the Museum in the capacity of superintendent of theNatural History Department, and in conferring upon him thedignity of K.C.B. He then called upon Mr. WIlliamCarruthers, F.R.S., Keeper of the Botanical Department, topropose the toast of the evening-" Professor Sir RichardOwen."Mr. CARRUTHERS, in the course of a comprehensive

speech, touched on the chief incidents in the career ofProfessor Owen, and alluded to the Professor’s eminentservices to the nation in obtaining adequate accommodationfor its natural history collections, and to the value of hislabour-* in connexion with the Hunterian Museum.

Sir RICHARD OWEN, in returning thanks, said that incoming to the dinner he had expected to find a small gather-ing of colleagues who had been more or less closely asso-ciated with him in his work on the natural history collec-tions, but that he felt almost overcome at finding so manyofficers aad assistants from the various divisions of theMuseum in art. archæology, literature, and science as-

sembled to greet him. He spoke of his labours at the RoyalCollege of Surgeons, and expressed gratification that, in thecourse of his duties there, he had been able to extend theusefulness of the Hunterian collection. He emphasised theactive co-operation he had received from the officers of theDepartments of Natural History while he held the office ofsuperintendent, and he begged that too large a share in theremoval and rearrangement of those collections should notbe attributed to him, inasmuch as he had very considerablyrelied upon the exertions of the officers of the several de-partments, and owed a debt of gratitude to them for the zealthey had manifested whilst working in concert with him. Inresuming his seat he called upon Professor C. T. Newton,C.B., Keeper of the Greek and Roman Antiquities, whoproposed the health of the old Museum officers then present,with which toast he coupled the name of Professor Story-Maskelyne, M.P., formerly Keeper of the MineralogicalCollections in the British Museum.In returning thanks, Professor STORY-MASKELYNE ex-

pressed his great desire that, although he was no longeran officer of the Museum, his past connexion with it shouldnot be forgotten.The Chairman’s health was proposed by Dr. A. GuNTHER,

Keeper of the Department of Zoology, who spoke to the ’

peculiarly interesting nature of the celebration which hadbrought them together.The heartiest appreciation of the unflagging labours and

great genius of Professor Owen was again and againenthusiastically expressed during the evening, and ProfessorOwen seemed much affected.

THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH EXHIBITION.

THE Subcommittee on School and Education have pre-pared a memorandum on Groups 4 and 6 of this Exhibition,showing the special points to which it is desirable that atten.tion should be directed. Group 4 relates to improvementsin the sanitary construction of schools, and the classifica.tion includes designs for improved buildings, apparatus andfittings, school kitchens, precautions for preventing thespread of infectious diseases, apparatus for physical training,&c. The sixth group forms the second main division of theExhibition, and deals with educational works and appliancessuitable for primary schools and for schools in which scientific,artistic, and technical instruction is given. Among otherpoints, on the importance of which the committee would laystress, may be mentioned the artistic decoration of school.rooms, the exhibition of works of art suitable for use inschools, and of objects suitable for school museums.A memorandum indicating the principal exhibits which

it is intended should be comprised within Classes 24, 25,and 26 of the Exhibition has also been prepared by theSubcommittee on Heating, Lighting, Ventilating, andSmoke Abatement. In Class 24 will be included grates,stoves, kitcheners, ranges, boilers, &c., for domestic use,and all methods of warming, with or without provision forventilation. In Class 25 will be included special appliancesfor ventilation other than those which may be consideredmore suitable for Class 24. These will include means forcooling the air supplied to rooms, means for improving thecondition of the air in rooms, methods for testing air, resultsof experiments on ventilation, and any other means ofeffecting improvement in matters relating to this class, orof diffusing knowledge about them. Class 26 takes inlighting by any means, electricity, gas, oil, candles, &c.Electric lighting, however, is to be limited to illustrationsof its application to domestic lighting. Its use on a largescale will be practically illustrated by the arrangementsmade for lighting the Exhibition itself.The following heads show the principal subjects which the

Workshop Subcommittee are anxious should be illustratedin the several classes of the department under its control,the illustrations being expected to include alike the con-ditions of injury of health and the means proposed for im.provement. (a) Ventilation, of the workshop : by simpledischarge of internal air; by destroying offensive or injuriousquality of discharged air. (b) Effluvium nuisances: by con-densing and utilising vapours; by consuming vapours; byother means, as in gas works. (c) Dust nuisances-e.g., inneedle grinding, mother-o’-pearl working, in weaving sheds.(d) Danger from mineral poisons-e.g., in arsenic works,white-lead works, playing-card making, card-bronzing,phosphorus and match manufacture. (e) Danger fromanimal poisons-e.g., in wool-sorting, rag-picking. (f) Pre-vention of accidents in the workshop-e.g., protection againstheat or injury to eyes; protection against explosions in themine and elsewhere.

VITAL STATISTICS

HEALTH OF ENGLISH TOWNS

In twenty-eight of the largest English towns, 5980 birthsand 3479 deaths were registered during the week ending the19th iDst. The annual death-rate in these towns, whichhad been equal to 22’2 and 21’0 in the two precedingweeks, further declined last week to 20’7. During the firstthree weeks of the current quarter the death-rate in thesetowns averaged only 21’3 per 1000, against rates decliningsteadily from 28’1 to 22’5 in the corresponding periods ofthe five years 1879-83. The lowest rates in these townslast week were 11’3 in Wolverhampton, 15.6 in Blackburn,15’7 in Portsmouth, and 16’4 in Halifax. The rates inthe other towns ranged upwards to 24’7,in Birkenhead,