"Her address is Frau Doctor Kempin, Flurnbern, Zurich, Switzerland." "I do not know of any woman having been admitted to the legal profession in the Hawaiian Kingdom, though I do not think there is any legal obstacle to such admission. A young woman from Hawaii, the daughter of one of our circuit judges, is studying law at the University of Michigan with the view of practicing in Hawaii.”

We are anticipating that the outcome of our "Woman's International Bar Association" will be concerted action all along the line to open the doors of law schools still closed against women students, and to secure the right of admission to all ranks of the profession for our legal sisterhood in other lands.

We believe women are not only as capable of learning and applying legal principles as men, but also are as capable of practicing successfully in the court room, and are as well fitted by nature for doing so as men. This we know is a very advanced position to take, but are not women as well qualified for judging of minute details as men? Are not women as persistent in effort? Are they not endowed with as much power of endurance? Great physical strength is not required. Is not woman's sense of justice as fully developed? Is not her intuitive faculty as alert? And are not these the qualities essential to fit one for the practice of the legal profession?

There has not been time enough yet for a woman to develop into an Erskine or Burke, an O'Connor or Curran, a Webster or Choate. But few men have done so if history correctly records. But woman has made a fair beginning and is determined to push on and upward, keeping pace with her brother along the way until with him she shall have finally reached the highest pinnacle of legal fame.

Ada M. Bittenbender.

Department of Medical Jurisprudence.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEDICO-LEGAL

SOCIETY OF CHICAGO.

A regular meeting of this society was held at the Grand Pacific Hotel, March 3, 1888. President E. J. Doering, presiding. There were 35 present. Upon recommendation of the executive committee, Dr. Oscar J. Price, Dr. Eugene W. Whitney, Dr. Jas. G. Kiernan, and Samuel W. Jackson, Esq. were elected active members of the society.

Dr. Jas. H. Etheridge read a very interesting paper on "Certain remarks made in Medical societies, by physicians," in which he condemned the tendency of physicians to go to extremes in their assertions in connection with new theories, as yet remaining undemonstrated to certainty. Drs. Parkes, Gapin, Mc Arthur, Hoag, Earle and Steele discussed the subject at length.

Dr. L. L. Mc Arthur read a paper on the medico-legal aspect of Pott's fracture-which was discussed by Drs. Owens, Andrews, Hoadley and Gapin. In accordance with the provisions of Art. III., Sec. 5, of the constitution, the President appointed Dr. E. B. Weston and Dr. H. T. Byford an auditing committee to examine the treasurer's accounts and report at the next meeting of the society.

The society then adjourned.

SCOTT HELM, Secretary.

An article by Dr. James G. Kiernan, on Validity of Motive as Evidenc of Sanity in Criminal Cases, has been received, and will appear in our nex issue.

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NOTES OF TRAVEL.

GERMANY AND AUSTRIA-NINE MONTHS SOJOURN IN VIENNA.

On the 8th of December, 1884, having had a very agreeable visit with Bjornson, I left Paris for Berlin.

The route lay for some time through an open country, rather level, with but little timber, and that consisting of small trees and underbrush. Why relate these things which so many Americans have seen? Because there are some people who have not traveled from Paris to Berlin, and because Americans who have passed through the country assume either that these matters are already known by every body, or of but little consequence; neither of which assumption is correct.

The fences are of stone or hedge. Toward noon the train passed along by the side of a swampy district, with a canal in the center. This continued for 20 or 30 miles. Just before dinner we passed through an apology for a forest. The trees were small, but much larger than any we had hitherto passed. After dinner we went through a better country. But little of it, however, could be called handsome.

At 1 o'clock, arrived at Charlevoi, a city of 20,000 inhabitants, and at 2 P. M.; came to Nemur, which has 30,000. The houses of these cities are mostly of brick, and are old and rusty. Have seen but few handsome houses since leaving Paris. The villages passed this forenoon were nearly all small, the country not being so populous, as the north-western portion of France.

For an hour or so the river Meuse has been flowing at our right, while on the left, part of the way there are abrupt, rocky cliffs, resembling some of the less bold Rocky Mountain scenery in America. Some of the views on this river are picturesque.

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Stopping over at Cologne, next morning I visited the famous Cathedral in that City. The exterior presents to the eve the handsomest building I ever saw. The handsomest inside, and at the same time the homeliest outside, of other noted buildings, is the great Cathedral of St. Peter at Rome.

The towers are of equal height with the length of the building, 532 feet. It has, inside, 104 large fluted columns of solid marble. It will contain 35,000 people. There are 128 windows of stained glass. It was over 600 years in building, having been commenced in 1248, and finished in 1880. How much it cost is not known, but the amount expended from 1842 to 1880 was 27,000,000 marks. ($6,750,000.)

At 8-35 A. M., December 9, took the cars again for Berlin. Crossed the Rhine and proceeded through an open country. This part of Germany is more level, even, than that part of France and Belgium through which we passed yesterday. There is but very little timber. Only a few handsome groves of very small trees. Fences of hedge-land well cultivated. At 9-30, passed through Dusseldorf; 80,000 inhabitants.

12-45. For the last hour or so the country has assumed a better appearance. It is more rolling and there is more timber. We have traversed several groves of tolerably sized trees. We come now into an open country with hills in the distance. Much of the timber consists of evergreens, 20 to 40 feet in height. The same character of country prevails until about 3 P. M., when we arrive at Hanover. Sometimes there are hills in the distance, almost high enough to be called mountains.

We dined at Hanover, and now the shades of evening prevented further observations. About 8 P. M., arrived at Berlin.

The months of Decemper and January were passed in Berlin. There was a good deal of rain, and a week or two of very sharp, cold weather.

The architecture of Berlin is rather heavy and sombre in its character. It is more like that of London than of any other large city. I do not like it so well as the lighter and livelier style which prevails in Paris, St. Petersburg and Vienna, all of which is not very much unlike that of New York and Chicago.

THE ROYAL MUSEUM.-This is, perhaps, to a traveler, the most interesting feature of Berlin. I visited it nearly every day for an hour or two during some two weeks. There is an immense collection of statuary and antiquities, perhaps greater than in any one place in Paris. In Berlin they are nearly all in the Museum. In Paris they are distributed in ten or a dozen places.

I have been reading Bjornson's last novel, "Det Flager," and have become intensely interested in it. His imagination is as powerful as his body. He is intellectually a giant, and something of the same physically. I hope "Det Flager" may be well translated into English, so that it may be read generally in America.

The Royal Museum has a number of departments, each of which is as large as an ordinary museum. Besides the very extensive collection of paintings, requiring for its accommodation a new building, and the general collection of statuary, there are The Antiquarium, the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities, The Engraving Department, The Collection of Casts, very large, in a double sense, The Collection of Northern Antiquities, The Mint Department, &c.

In marble statuary the Museum is, or was at unat time, deficient.

The special feature of the Museum was the collection of broken statuary exhumed from the ruins of Troy by Dr. Schliemann. They were in recumbent postures, and were to be seen by the spectator, passing along on a little walk, slightly elevated. As one looked down upon them in their perfect outlines, they seemed like fragments of so many sleeping giants; nearly every one being much larger than life.

THE SECOND TIME IN GERMANY.-September 8. 1885.

Since my sojourn in Berlin, last winter, 1 had been traveling in Switzerland, France, England, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, (including a trip to the North Cape), Sweden, and Russia, returning by the way of Moscow and Warsaw, and now I found myself again in Berlin. I managed o escape the police and early this afternoon arrived in Hanover. This is quite a lively city, but not particularly handsome, except the parks and drives out to the castle, or summer house and grounds of "The Three Kings." That locality is quite beautiful.

At Herrenhausen, a little out from the City, is a large column of water from a fountain, which is thrown, the guide book says, over 200 feet high. When we saw it, it was perhaps 150. This is the fourth very high column of water that I have seen. The first was at the International Exhibition of Inventions at London. This in the evening was colored. The second was in the mountain park near Chistiansand, Norway, and the third was at Peterhoff, in Russia.

On the morning of the 29th of September, we left Hanover for Vienna by the way of Dresden. Visited the Hartzburg Mountains, so called, which, however, are so much inferior to the Rocky Mountains in height and grandeur, that they would in Western America be called "bluffs."