April 2, i87o.] THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL. 347 THE FRENCH MEDICAL PRESS AND THE ACADEMY OF MEDICINEL -The medical press is naturally jubilant at the election of Amd&e Latour as an associ& Wihre of the Academy of Medicine. Several members of the Academy have obtained their chairs in that illustrious assembly through their connexion, more or less active, with medical journalism; but M. Latour is the first who has won his seat solely and avowedly from his zeal, honour, and talent as a

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... The other candidates were M. J. Michon and M. Payen, a veteran in the ranks of medical science. M. Payen unquestionably did not owe his defeat to any want of appreciation of his claims, but only to a feeling that the time had come when high-toned honest journalism ought to be honoured in the person of its representative, M. Latour. At the first ballot, M. Latour had forty-seven votes, and M. Payen forty-one. As this result did not give M. Latour an absolute majority of the voters present, a second ballot was instituted, when M. Latour had forty-nine, and M. Payen forty votes. As this gave the former the necessary majority, he was declared to be elected. M. Latour first became known in the capa-