The committee have proposed that each delegate shall have the privilege of bringing with him, at the same rate of expense, two lady members of his fam¬ ily, and believe that proposition will be accepted by those lines selected. Steps have also been taken to ascertain, at each of the four ports, Havre, Liver¬ pool, Antwerp and Hamburg, the exact number of persons who will embark at these ports entitled to this reduction of rates. All further information on this subject will be promptly published

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... in The Jour¬ Graphic says : Lady Dufferin appeals to the women of England to subscribe what they can to the funds of the National Association for supplying female medical aid to their dusky sisters in the East. It is a most laudable undertaking, very large numbers of women in India being without medical attendance during sickness. They would sooner die than allow a man to see them, and they have, therefore, to trust for their recovery to the old wives' remedies which are among the traditions of zenana life. Now, how¬ ever, that education is beginning to invade the sa¬ cred precincts of the purdah, the inmates are no longer content to trust their lives to ignorant crones, who are more skilled in distilling poisons and witch¬ craft than in useful medical lore. The demand, therefore, for women doctors from England is a gen¬ uine one, and not one of those philanthropic "fads" which are too often palmed off on the British public. There is another feature, moreover, which should commend the appeal even more to our favor. Rumor says that the number of lady doctors in England is multiplying far more rapidly than are openings for practice. But in the East they have a splendid op¬ portunity before them, in the multitudes of native ladies whose husbands can afford to pay substantial fees. They would be safe, too, from masculine competition, nor would they feel that they were in¬ truding upon a province not belonging to them by right. Indeed, so promising is the enterprise that one can only wonder an exodus of lady doctors bound for the East did not take place long ago. There is one matter, however, in which they must be very careful, to respect native prejudices. It is said that some of them sedulously cultivate mascu¬ line manners and appearance, in order to gain the confidence of their patients. This will not do in India; the Asiatic husband is very suspicious, and would probably detect in the supposed female Hakim an enterprising Feringhee bent on making surrepti¬ tious love to his many wives behind the purdah. A Good Resolution.-At the recent annual meet¬ ing of the Ohio State Board of Health, Dr. Jones introduced a resolution requiring that every railroad company doing business in Ohio shall carry on its trains an emergency case, which shall contain band¬ ages, cotton, and other things desirable in accidents, and that employes shall be instructed in their use by the surgeon of the road. Hypnotism and Politics.-While Charcot is electrifying Paris with the results of his hypnoticê xperiments at the Salpetrière Hospital, Virchow, in