Report on the Medico-Legal Returns Received from the Civil Surgeons in the Bengal Presidency during the Years 1870, 1871, and 1872. *This valuable report has been placed at our disposal by the Surgeon-General. It will be published in monthly instalments until completed. The subject-matter of the report is so varied, and its arrangement so clear and methodical, that, though it constitutes a well-designed and carefully constructed whole, its interest and worth will not suffer from its periodical issue.—Ed., I. M. G.]

one of Dr. MeLeod's concluding sentences, " that, if the medico-legal experience acquired by each medical officer who lias held civil office in India since the British occupation had been continuously fixed, and the results of the experience of all arranged, compared, and generalized, a magnificent body of ethnological and medico-legal science of vast practical utility would now exist, which lias passed away irretrievably." The more complete returns of the three years embraced in the present report teach the same lesson, and shew that, although what is lost is lost, it will require but a few years to collect such a body of facts relating to the medical jurisprudence of India as should suffice to clear up all disputed points, and help to render medical opinions in legal cases more clear and definite than they sometimes are at present. In Dr. Chevers' work on 1 Medical Jurisprudence for India,' a vast mass of most useful