Dr. Heneage Gibbes

All who are interested in the prosperity of the University will read with interest the following extract from the editorial columns of the British Medical Journal, relative to Dr. Gibbes, who has recently taken up his abode here. This is a high source of commendation : " This well-known English pathologist, who is at present lecturer on Physiology and Normal and Morbid Histology at the Westminster Hospital, has been appointed Professor of Pathology ia the University of Michigan. Dr. Gibbes is well known to the public as constituting in 1884, together with Dr. KleiD, the English Chole.-a Commission, sent by our government to India. We understand that he will accept his new appointment, and this fact, however much a matter for private congratulation, will be learned with regret by the profession in our country, where pathologists who are also first-class histologists, like Dr. Gibbes, are unfortunately rare." Dr. Gibbes has letter?, speakine; in high terms of his acquirements, from Sir James Paget, Sir Joseph Fayrer, Sir Henry Thompson, Lionel Beale, and other scientific men of great reputation.