88 HARVARD LAW REVIEW, The Council of the Harvard Law School Association submits the following report of membership on May I, 1890. The Association now numbers 1,361 memders (an increase of 398 members since Janu- ary I, 1890), representing forty-two States and Territories, and distri- buted as follows : — Alabama, 5 Maryland, 16 Tennessee, 5 Arkansas, 3 Massachusetts, 577 Texas, 8 California, 35 Michigan, 15 Utah, 3 Colorado, 13 Minnesota, 19 Vermont, 4 Connecticut, H Mississippi, I Virginia, 3 Dakota, 3 Missouri, 44 Washington, 5 Delaware, 9 Montana, 2 West Virginia, 4 Dist. Columbia, 24 Nebraska, 3 Wisconsin, 9 Florida, New Hampshire, 16 New Brunswick, 21 Georgia, 7 New Jersey, 22 Nova Scotia, 9 Illinois, 60 New York, 179 British Columbia, I Indiana, II North Carolina, 2 U.S. of Columbia » I Iowa, 10 Ohio, 76 France, I Kansas, 2 Oregon, 4 Austria, , I Kentucky, 16 Pennsylvania, 44 Japan, 2 Louisiana, 3 Rhode Island, 19 / ~~ — Maine, 28 South Carolina, I Total, I,, 561 Similar tables may be found in the Review of April, 1888 (Vol. II. p. 43), and of December, 1889 (Vol. III. p. 226). The Law Quarterly Review ^ dismisses the case of Reg. v. Collins with the following rather contemptuous observations : That a man who puts his hand into your pocket aiiimo furandi is not guilty of an attempt to steal if the pocket is empty, savours more of casuistry than common sense. Yet Reg, v. Collins (^ 9 Cox, C. C. 497) so decided. The Court of Crown Cases Reserved is not * satisfied' with this deci- sion (^^ueen , Brown,, 24 Q. B. Div. 357). Probably no one is but Mr. Bill Sykes. " It may be suggested with great respect that the opinion of Mr. Justice Barrett in People w,Moran^ contains arguments which have " satisfied " judges of some eminence, and which do not appear to have been answered in any reported case. The Jurist of last November contains a remarkable account of a Swedish trial, in which a medical student sued a doctor for hypno- tizing him against his will. The defendant was enterprising enough to follow up his previous offence by hypnotizing all the plaintiff's wit- nesses and making them contradict themselves and behave in a generally irrational manner ; and this course of action so bewildered the judge that instead of committing the defendant for contempt, a step which would seem to have been quite justifiable under the circumstances, — unless, perhaps, he feared to meet with the same fate as the witnesses, — he adjourned the case for the purpose of calling" in medical assistance. The reader cannot but fear that some of the picturesqueness of this anecdote is attributable to the fact that it comes by way of " one of the ^ VI. 237.
- 54 Hun, 279 ; cited in 3 Harv. L. Rev. 375.
