The following details of the tragic death at Harbin of Dr. Meany, the French bacteriologiat, are translated by the "Japan Chronicle" from the Novaya Zhizn" of the 13th instant as followe:—At B o'clock last night Dr. Mesny, director of the Tientsin Medical School, engaged from Mokden by the Chinese authorities to elaborate measures against the plage epidemic, succumbed to place at the isolation hospital at Harbin. The courageous French bacteriologist threw himeelf heart and seal into the Sight against trusting to fate, apparently laid himeelf open to the risk of infection by not aking any special precaution when Three days sxo the copitaly and rendered medical assistance. The same night he himself was taken ill. As an experienced bacteriologist, he knew that his fate was He at once dressed, made his way to the isolation hospital, and notified his condition to the medical authorities. His Rassian colleagues all they coald to save his life, bat he disgaosed his own case and announced that there was n0 hope. He said he had still two days to live and begged bs that his family should not be informed until after his death. Knowing that nothing could save him, Dr. Mesny concentrated his efforts to the last on preventing others from catching the disease from him, and even refused to allow his temperature to be taken, owing to the contact with the thermometer. Thus the distinguished doctor men of tha Councils (five present).|¢xperienced the profound tragedy of Knowiog that be was doomed, every moment his life was oozing out, and that there was not the slightest ray of hope. A courageous man has departed from the world, one who set out sare others and Ini down his lit for
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