The Autumn Meeting of the South-Western Division of the Medico-Psychological Association was held, by kind invitation of Dr. Fox, at Brislington House, near Bristol, on Tuesday afternoon, October 26. The members present were Drs. Aidridge, Deas, Morton, Soutar, Bower, Wilson, McCutchan, Bullen, Blatchford, Fox, Hanbury, Green, MacBryan, Lindsay, Stewart, Manning, Benham, and Macdonald (Hon. Secretary). On the motion of Dr. Stewart, seconded by Dr. Deas, Dr. Aldridge was unanimously voted to the chair.

A meeting of the Scottish Division was held in the Laboratory of the Scottish Asylums, 12, Bristo Place, Edinburgh, on Thursday, November 11. Present: Dr. Urquhart (in the chair), Dr. Lewis C. Bruce, Dr. Carswell, Dr. Campbell Clark, Dr. Clouston, Dr. France, Dr. Gilmour, Dr. Hotchkis, Dr. Ireland, Dr. Carlyle Johnstone, Dr. Macpherson, Dr. Middlemass, Dr. R. B. Mitchell, Dr. Oswald, Dr. Richard, Dr. Ford Robertson, Dr. G. M. Robertson, Dr. Turnbull (Secretary), Dr. N. P. Watt, Dr. Watson, Dr. Yellowlees; with Dr. Christie, Dr. Findlay, and Dr. Orr as guests.

The adjourned meeting of the Scottish Division was held in the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, on 27 November, 1897. Dr. Urquhart was in the chair, and there were also present Drs. Campbell Clark, Carlyle Johnstone, Macpherson, Middlemass, G. M. Robertson, Rutherford, Watson, Watt, Yellowlees, and Turnbull (Secretary). In accordance with the remit from the Annual Meeting of the Association, the Division took into consideration the report of the Educational Committee giving the proposed amended regulations for the nursing certificate. Considerable discussion took place, and it was agreed to submit the following suggestions to the Educational Committee: 1. That the minimum period of training should be fixed at two years. 2. That Rule 3 should (consequent on the preceding suggestion) be deleted. 3. That section a. of Rule 5 should read—“Systematic lectures, in addition to the practical demonstrations provided for below, by the medical staff,” etc. 4. That sections b. and c. of Rule 5 should be combined, and should read—“Clinical demonstrations of mental and bodily disease, and practical instruction in sick nursing and in first aid, to be given by the medical staff. At least twelve demonstrations, each of one hour's duration, must be given in each year of training, and no attendant will be admitted to examination who has not attended at least nine demonstrations in each year.” 5. That the last clause of section c., Rule 9, should read—“The written questions being confined to subjects included in the Handbook.” 6. That in the written examination the maximum of questions to be answered shall be six, and the minimum time allowed for answering three hours.

The Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association, held in Montreal, proved an unqualified success as regards the scientific work and the hospitality shown to the guests. The Psychological Section was fairly well attended. Amongst those present from various parts of Canada were Drs. Bucke, Clark, C. K. Clarke, Burgess, Hobbs, Russell, Valleè, Wilkins, Anglin, Villeneuve; the United States were represented by Drs. Cowles. Dewey, Brush, Stearns, Crothers, Rohè, Spilzka, Van Giesen; and Drs. Alexander, J. A. Campbell, J. G. B. Blandford, Hazlitt, Blair, and Urquhart represented British psychologists.

Whether an International Congress brings out the best work of the best men may be questioned, but it is beyond question that in a city so full of interest as Moscow foreign visitors arc apt to sacrifice sections to sight-seeing.

Section VII. was one of the busiest and best attended of all the fifteen sections into which the Congress was divided, and not a few communications were left unread. Many nationalities were found at its meetings, and Honorary Presidents of Section were courteously appointed from each, Dr. Yellowlees being chosen to represent Great Britain. As the section included both nervous and mental maladies the field was very wide and the subjects very varied and very mixed: Obsessions and Fixed Ideas, Juvenile Dementia, Pathology of the Nerve-cell, Hypnotism and its Legal Relations, Tabes Dorsalis, Polyneuritis, Inherited Neuroses and Degeneration, Transitory Alcoholic Mania, Treatment by Alternations of Temperature, etc. Dr. Shuttleworth, of London, Dr. Sutherland, of Edinburgh, and Dr. Robertson, of Glasgow were the only readers of papers from this country.