The Autumn Meeting of the Division was held at the Royal College of Physicians, Dublin, by the kind permission of the President and Fellows of the College, on Saturday, November 6th, 1909, at 2.30 p.m. Dr. Hetherington was voted to the Chair, and there were also present Drs. T. Drapes, G. F. Shepherd, R. R. Leeper, T. A. Greene, J. O'C. Donelan, M. J. Nolan, J. J. Fitzgerald, J. Mills, Dora Allmann, H. M. Eustace, I. M. Redington, and W. R. Dawson (Hon. Sec.). Expressions of regret for inability to attend were received from Drs. P. O'Doherty, F. O'Mara, O. F. McCarthy, and W. Graham.

The Standard of March 15th reports that 280 patients have been discharged from the public asylums of Bohemia owing to financial difficulties. These arise from political complications preventing the Budget being passed, so that the Provincial Government has been impelled to this extraordinary course. The criminal insane will in future be confined in prisons because they are found to be far cheaper than asylums, and this enforced economy has also suspended all building, and stopped all subventions to charitable institutions.

A numerous company of ladies and professional gentlemen assembled in the hall of the Royal College of Physicians, Queen Street, yesterday afternoon, on the occasion of the presentation of portraits of Dr. Clouston, subscribed for by friends in recognition of his long connection with the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the Insane. In the absence of Mr. Adam, Chairman of the Managing Board of the Asylum, Professor Rankine presided.