Jonathan Hutchinson, F. R. S., general secretary of the New Sydenham Society, has requested Messrs. P. Blakiston's Son & Co. of Philadelphia, the American agents of the society, to announce the publication of "An Atlas of Clinical Medicine, Surgery and Pathology," selected and arranged with the design to afford, in as complete a manner as possible, aids to diagnosis in all departments of practice. It is proposed to complete the work in five years, in fasciculi form, eight to ten plates issued every three months in connection with the regular publications of the society. The New Sydenham Society was established in 1858, with the object of publishing essays, monographs and translations of works which could not be otherwise issued. The list of publications number upwards of 170 volumes of the greatest scientific value. An effort is now being made to increase the membership, in order to extend its

work.

Professor F. S. Lee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, maintains that his experiments carry out the contentions of Professor Atwater of the Wesleyan University, that alcohol in certain proportions is an unequaled muscle food, furnishing the power as well as the stimulation to a greater effort.

Dr. Moore of Cripple Creek has recently removed to Southern California. This change of location was rendered necessary by the condition of his wife's health, which has been very poor in the high altitude of Cripple Creek.

The first distribution of the Nobel prizes took place December 10, at Stockholm and Christiana. There are five prizes, each valued at more than $40,000. In medicine Emil von Behring, professor at Halle, carried off the prize for his work on the discovery of the diphtheria serum. In physics it was awarded Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, professor at the University at Munich for the discovery of the X-ray. In chemistry to Jacobus Henrichs Vant Hoff, professor of the University at Berlin, and in literature to Sully-Prudhomme, member of the French Academy. The peace prizes were divided between Fred Passy, national economist, and Henri Dunant of Switzerland for his work in bringing about the Geneva convention and establishing the Red Cross societies.

December 17 a joint meeting of the Cripple Creek District Medical Society and the Physicians' Business League of Teller County was held at the office of Dr. Davidson, in Victor. The report of the Committees on "Fee Bill" was accepted with a few modifications, and the officers of both societies were appointed as a committee to obtain the signatures of all the physicians of the district to the fee bill as adopted at the meeting.

Work has been begun on the Guggenheim pavilion of the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives in Denver. We hope soon to be able to give illustrations of its exterior appearance the plans, arrangements and equipments of the several rooms.

The fact that this meeting ushers in the tenth fiscal year of the Colorado Medical Library Association affords an excuse to its ninth executive officer for indulging in an excursion into the realms of history.

The evolution of the medical institutions in Denver represents an interesting study of the growth of a healthy profession. The first chapter of all histories cannot improve upon that of the Bible. In the beginning the medical profession of Denver was without form and void. Medical men, regular and irregular, came and went, lived and died, healed and killed, and left no trace behind them. In the seventies the professional spirit was waving over the face of Denver. Several attempts were made to organize some sort of a medical society. There was light in

1871, when the first medical organiza、 tion was effected-now the Denver and Arapahoe Medical Society. A few months later, the Territorial, now the State, Medical Society was organized. This stands for expansion. The next step in the growth of the profession was the founding of a hospital—a seed that yielded fruit after its kind. A decade from the time the first medical organization came to light, a medical school sprang into life, and another ollowed suit soon after-two lumi naries in the expansion--to continue a biblical metaj hor. The tribe of Aesculapius had now reached a stage in its development when it considered. itself no longer in the capacity of disciples; it thought it had something new to say to the outside world, and as a consequence, a medical periodical made