Proceedings of the Royal Society for the month of August, 1898

There was a large attendance at the monthly meeting of the Royal Society on Monday, August 8th, when the President, His Excellency the Governor (Viscount Gormanston, G.C.M.G.), presided.
The Secretary (Mr. A. Morton) also read a resolution passed by the medical section of the society, requesting Dr. Sprott to read his paper on Typhoid and the Metropolitan drainage scheme.
His Excellency called attention to the photographs in the room of some trout from the Great Lake, sent for exhibition to England.
Dr. Arthur H. Clarke read a paper on the surgeon of the Tudor period and his work, which was full of quaint interest to the medical profession.
Mr. L. Rodway read a paper on a new Cordyceps.
In conclusion to the discussion on typhoid and sntitation,Mr. R. M. Johnston said that though an improved sanitation would not prevent epidemics it would reduce the death-rate. He believed in deep drainage for a city like this into the deep water of the sea.