ALBINUS, BERNARD SIEGFRIED was born at Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, and from 1 718 to his death on Sept. 9, I 7 70, occupied the chair of anatomy, surgery and medi cine at Leyden. He was the first to show by injections the con nection of the vascular systems of the mother and the foetus. He also edited with Boerhaave the works of Vesalius and of Harvey. But he is chiefly famed for the excellent drawings in his Tabula sceleti et musculorum corporis liumani (Leyden, i 747) His De ossibus corporis humani ad auditores suos libellus appeared at Leyden, i 726.