A MEETING of this Society was held on Wednesday, March llth, The following cases and specimens were shown :-Mr. WILLMOTT EVANS showed a case of Pityriasia mbra pihris (Devergie). The patient was a well-nourished woman aged 56 years. There was nothing of importance in her history. About three years ago she had some scaliness of the scalp which extended h e r her forehead, but this lasted only three weeks and disappeared without treatment. In August, 1902, her forehead became rough, and this

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... ness gradually spread to the face and neck, and to the arms and trunk. Her condition when shown was as follows :-On the front of the chest, the abdomen and the lower hatf of the back the skin is thickly studded with sharply-pointed papules, each representing a hair-follicle. The more recent papules are discrete, but where the eruption is of longer duration the whole surface is covered by scales, which come away freely. This scaliness is most marked on the thighs and knees and in the inter-gluteal groove. The flexor surfaces of the arms show the acuminate papules, but on the extensor surface the scaliness is well marked, and a shagreen-like surface is produced by the heaping-up of the scales on the papules. The epithelium of the palms and soles is much thickened and cracked, and the nails are raised from their beds by a mass of illformed keratin. The face is comparatively free, but the scalp is very'waly and the hair is somewhat scanty. The patient says that 1903, Dr. J. J. PRINGLE in the Chair.