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Dr. Baudoin on the Sanitary Condition of the Army, datedJuly 23rd. This is followed by a note showing that theGovernment has always been mindful of the interests of thesick soldiers, and that the inquiry now taking place is notthe result of any pressure from without. " As to the parti-cular facts which have been mentioned" (by Dr. Lereboullet),says the note, "we must, to appreciate their worth, waituntil the special reports ordered by the Minister on eachseparate circumstance have been made."

Obituary.JOSEPH JOHN BROWN, M.B., F.R.C.P. EDIN.THE announcement of the untimely death of Mr. Joseph

J. Brown, Medical Superintendent of the Fife and KinrossAsylum, will occasion sincere sorrrow amongst a large circleof friends and acquaintances. On the 28th ult. Mr. Brown wasstepping into his carriage, in which three ladies were seated,when the horse started, dragging the doctor along on the foot-path for about 150 yards. In endeavouring to free himself byjumping off, he fell in front of the wheels, which passed overhim, causing such severe injuries that he died about onehour afterwards. After graduating with honours in 1871,Mr. Brown acted as house-physician in the clinical wards ofthe Royal Infirmary. Subsequently he devoted himself tothe study and treatment of insanity, and acted as assistantmedical officer, first at Saughton Hall Asylum and sub-sequently at Morningside. A vacancy having occurred inthe superintendentship of the Fife and Kinross Asylum,through the promotion of Dr. Fraser to the post of Deputy-Commissioner in Lunacy, Mr. Brown was successful in hisapplication for the post. Mr. Brown (says the EdinburghCourant) was the type of a modern asylum superintendent.To an undoubtedly superior knowledge of his general pro-fession he added a very intimate knowledge of lunacy, andhe had that ingeniurn perfervidum and exuberant goodnature which do so much to favour recovery from insanity,and which even give a substantial pleasure when they arebrought to bear upon those who are hopelessly insane.Mr. Brown was an excellent microscopist, and had a specialknowledge of the spinal diseases of the insane. He hadpublished several papers which are much esteemed, and wasready to publish many more, but his great regard for

thoroughness in the performance of all that he undertookled him to practise delay rather than precipitancy in appear-ing as an author. By the painful death of Mr. Brown thedepartment of medicine which has to deal with lunacy haslost one who had achieved much, and who needed only theprogress of time to permit of his name being enrolled amongstthose of the eminent men whose humanity, soundness ofjudgment, and personal benignity have lightened the dark-ness of insanity in this country, end have converted English,and especially Scotch, asylums into institutions which aremore easily admired than imitated in other lands.

SURGEON-GENERAL G. RANKEN PLAYFAIR, M.D.DR. PLAYFAIR, whose lamented death we announced in

our last issue, was the son of the late George Playfair, Esq.,Inspector-General of Hospitals, Bengal, and was the elderbrother of the Right Hon. Lyon Play fair and of Dr. W. S.Playfair. He received his medical education at Edinburgh,where he was the contemporary of Sir James Simpson andother well-known members of that school. He at firstentered the Indian Navy, and saw active service during thefirst China war as surgeon of the Phlegethon. He afterwardsreceived a commission in the Bengal Medical Service, inwhich he held many important appointments, amongst othersthat of civil surgeon at Jaharunpore, where he acquiredgreat experience as a lithotomist. He subsequently servedwith Lord Clyde’s force at the siege of Lucknow. Hemarried a daughter of the late General Home, by whom hehad two sons. Dr. Playfair’s death was caused by angina,from which he had long suffered.

A CONVERSAZIONE will be held to-day (Friday),at eight P.M., in connexion with the Students’ Society ofthe National Dental Hospital and College.

Medical News.ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON. -

The following gentlemen passed the First Examination forthe licence (Chemistry, Materia Medica, &c.) on Oct. 3rdand subsequent days :-Herbert Charles Alderton, Henry Clifford Baldwin, Frederick SamuelBarber, Percy William Bassett-Smith, Hinton Ernest Bateman,Henry Priestley Birch, Walter Blaxland, Robert Boxall, WilliamCase, Charles Montague Chadwick, Cedric Challinor, Arthur WilliamClark, Frank Cecil Clarkson, William Henry Crago, John HedleyCrocker, Edward Cluneglas Davies, Charles Downing, WilliamM’Donagh Ellis, Robert Stephens Fairbank, Walter Fell, RobertFetherstonhaugh, John Kingdom Frost, Edwin Gill, ThomasPreston Gostling, jun., Henry Louis Preston Hardy, Walter Frederic

, Haynes, Alfred Ernest Hind, Ernest Hudson, Thos. Iredale, Robt.I Jennings, Geo. Arthur Johnson, Obadiah Johnson, Mohamed Ismail

Khan, Sandford Scovell Lessey, Ernest Adrian Marras, Edgar ErnestMasters, Charles Alexander Morton, Thomas Mudge, MichaelAlexander Muirhead, Michael Oppenheim, John Morgan Owen,John Evans Penn, John James Powell, Edward Roberts, AlbertEdward Rook, Arthur William Scott, Harry Winstanley Shadwell,Henry George Lewis Stevens, Herbert Tanner, Harry Innis Tressider,Dudley Cox Trott, Alfred Herbert Trebby, George Edward Twynam,Charles Hazlitt Upham, Alfred Cyprian Wallace, John Arkle Waring,William Watson William George Weaver, Edwin Francis White,Frederick Newton Williams.

The following gentlemen passed the Second Examinationfor the licence (Anatomy and Physiology) on Oct. 10th andsubsequent days :-

Dighton, Allen Adair. I Halliday, Henry.Lovibond, Charles Forrest.

APOTHECARIES’ HALL. -The following gentlemenpassed their examination in the Science and Practice of Medi-cine, and received certificates to practise, on Oct. 6th :-

Beattey, William Crump, Bloomsbury-square.Brewster, William, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.Miller, James, Brunel-street.Rogers, Harry Cornelius Edwin, Stanhope-street.Simons, Charles Nathaniel, Luton, Beds.

The following gentleman also on the same day passed thePrimary Professional Examination :-

Culhane, Francis J. F., University College.

A RETURN just issued shows the number of lunaticsin the public asylums of New Zealand to be 1125-729 malesand 396 females. The increase during last year was 34 malesand 35 females.

THE premises in Chatham-street, Piccadilly, Man-chester, formerly occupied by the Cliatham-street School ofMedicine, have, it is announced, been secured for the newschool of medicine to be opened in the city in May next.

MR. LUNDY, Medical Officer of Health for theStaines Rural Sanitary District, has been voted a sum of JE5by the Authority for extra services rendered during therecent outbreak of small-pox in the district.

A PURSE containing 100 guineas has been presentedto Dr. S. Lewis of Liverpool, as a mark of respect and inrecognition of the value of Dr. Lewis’s professional services,chiefly in connexion with the Jewish schools in the city.

ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL.-Thecompetition for the two entrance scholarships in NaturalScience, of 9100 and JE60, resulted in a tie between Mr. J. S.Hutton and Mr. H. Sydney Jones, and the value has there-fore been divided equally between them-viz., jE80 each.

BEQUESTS AND DONATIONS TO MEDICAL CHARITIES.The treasurer of the Children’s Hospital, Pendlebury, hasreceived toward the funds of the charity £10,000 under thewill of the late Mr. Thos. Wrigley of Timberhurst. ColonelA. R. Naghten, late of Blighmont, bequeathed £500 to theSouth Hants Infirmary.BuxTON BATH CHARITY.—The new wing of the

Devonshire Hospital and Buxton Bath Charity was openedon Tuesday last by the Duke of Devonshire. The town of

! Buxton was en fête in honour of the occasion, which seemsto have been in every way as successful as the friends of theinstitution could have desired. It had been announced thatLord Derby, in his capacity of Chairman of the Cotton

Districts Convalescent Fund, which has contributed £24,000, to the extension of the hospital-very nearly the wholeE amount required-would take part in the proceedings, but

his lordship was at the last moment unable to attend.