appeared to be necessary at present seemed to him to be that they should forward a memorial to the Home Secretary, with a request that he would consider the important work which had been already done by the Select Committee, and, if he saw fit, take steps to embody their recommendations in an Act of Parliament, for the purpose of giving the country a greatly improved procedure in exchange for that at present employed. Dr. Isambard Owen, in the absence of Dr. Farquharson, M.P., seconded the resolution, and asserted that the State now winked at an exceedingly loose system of death-certification, since under the present procedure it was possible for a medical man to give a death-certificate on a patient whom he might not have seen for an interval of several weeks, and perhaps months. The resolution was supported by Dr. Nelson Hardy, Dr. Alderson, Dr. Hugh Woods, Dr. Sykes, and others, and was unanimously adopted. A well-known physician in large practice, writing to the author from a Midland town, October 10, 1895, says:--“Medical men, attending patients seriously ill, accept the statement of the friends that the patient died in the night, and give a certificate at once, without any inspection of the body. This is the regular practice.” [INTERMENTS WITHOUT CERTIFICATES.] In Ireland matters are no better, and clergymen and others, with whom the author has been in correspondence, say they are much worse, and the danger of premature burial is, if possible, greater than it is in England. The Rev. W. Walters, writing from Ventry Parsonage, Dingle, Ireland, September 16, 1895, says:--“In Ireland interment usually takes place the day after decease, and no certificate as to the cause of death is ever required. There is no safeguard whatever, and amongst the ignorant poor I fear premature burial is terribly frequent.”