produced by a Beam of Light in Oblique Refrac-
Circulatory
System of the Common Grass-Snake Evans had used fresh venom for his experiments,
tion through a Glass Plate.
tion through a Glass Plate.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
Party strife and standard of health amongst our infant when rent, reveals to him the "sub-human
wirepulling under these conditions be- population.
creatures which throng the lowest levels of
the unseen world. "? It forms No. 2 of
come almost an insult to the understand- Mr. Woodcock says that, if we want the Manuals of Occultism.
ing, and their pettiness degrades the young enthusiast to join the ranks of the
traditions of our system of government. “G. P. " in the future, we must interest Forsyth (A. R. ), LECTURES ON THE DIFFER-
ENTIAL GEOMETRY OF CURVES AND SUR-
The greatest stumbling-block to the him in his work and enable him to keep
FACES, 21/ net.
efficient working of the Act is at present in touch with modern ideas ; he suggests
Cambridge University Press.
the position of the doctors. A lack of that the Poor Law infirmary should admit
The substance of & course of lectures
confidence, a feeling that the men who the practitioner as an out-patient phy- delivered by Dr. Forsyth during his tenuro
are going to bear the heat and burden sician or surgeon, who might have a few of the Sadlerian Professorship at Cambridge
of the day have not been sufficiently in-patient beds as well-in fact, copy the forms the basis of the present work. Not-
consulted, is largely responsible for the system of our general hospitals. By our withstanding its elaborate nature, it does
attitude of hostility assumed by a con- present arrangements, directly the patient not pretend to be anything like a complete
siderable number of the profession at
is admitted into the infirmary, the resident treatment of the subject, but is rather
the present time. The author of this
staff take the responsibility, and the intended, in the author's words,
volume points out that it is the generall he is unable in these circumstances to fitted for this purpose, inter alia, by useful
family attendant loses sight of the case ;
students who, later, may devote themselves
to original work. ” The volume is well.
practitioner who is going either to mar
or make the Act, here criticized some-
watch the effect of treatment and follow historical and bibliographical introductions.
what severely, and that our legislators the course of events, which would be a to the different chapters.
could scarcely have realized how intimate great educational advantage to him.
Health Habits, and How to Train Them, with
is the relationship existing between patient The Board of Education receives some
an Introduction by a Leading Physician,
and doctor, particularly amongst the poor. criticism for not appointing the general
1/ net.
Cassell
The “G. P. " is often the best friend of practitioner to the post of medical school
He would in most
A handy manual which will serve as a
the poor; he also not infrequently acts inspector in all cases.
the part of a guide and counsellor. Mr. instances be the man on the spot, who usefu! guide on such subjects as fatigue, over-
exertion, and the like. It gives sound advice
De Carle Woodcock was at one time a Poor would know the homes from which the
as to conserving the bodily activities, avoid-
children came.
Law Medical Officer, and he gives what
ing mechanical routine in taking exercise,
cannot be designated as other than a Then, again, with regard to the problem and the like.
thrilling account of his experiences. The of tuberculosis, the G. P. ," if he were
Jones (R. Henry), EXPERIMENTAL DOMESTIC
reader will obtain a very fair notion of given the opportunity, is by far the best SCIENCE, 2/6
Heinemann
the work which a medical man is called man who could be chosen to search out
This book should be a success, not only
upon to do. The situation is summed the cases requiring help. If he were al- with students of domestic economy, but
up from the patient's point of view by lowed access to a laboratory in his locality also with the general public, for it contains
saying that
which was presided over by a skilled a large store of useful knowledge. Every
pathologist, he could have the sputum chapter deals with some process or article
" in a proportion of cases the general prac. examined for tubercle bacilli ; and he connected with daily life, and explains by
titioner seeks the aid of a specialist ; but he could certainly treat the patients in their aid of experiment whats course should the
medicine. He is a safe man to entrust your through the tuberculosis dispensaries) just sections on the preparation of aftredol arts
homes (which is at present being done minimum of cost and of labour. The
health to; the specialist is not. ”
as efficiently as any one else. There is analysis and adulteration, are particularly
The discontent amongst both the people also no reason why he should not discover good.
and the doctor is due to the bad system contact cases, and give tuberculin when Methley (Noël T. ), THE LIFE-BOAT AND ITS
at present in vogue, and not to want it is needed.
of skill on the part of the medical
STORY, 7/6 net. Sidgwick & Jackson
This is really a matter of the greatest
attendant.
An exhaustive and able study of the origin
importance. The public do not realize and development of the life-boat, its equip,
The nation has at last become fully the costliness of these dispensaries when ment, structure, methods of working, and
alive to the importance of preventing the work could be done by the men on the general practicability. Useful comparisons
disease.
There can be no question that spot, and, further, they do not consider with the life-boats of other nations are also
the future of medicine lies in this direction, the ultimate harm that will result if the It is likely to rank as a standard work on
furnished, and the book is well illustrated.
also in the early recognition of disease young man fresh from the hospitals, and the subject.
when present. The author shows clearly willing to live amongst the poor is pre-
that the “G. P. " has not had the requisite vented from treating cases which ought National Physical Laboratory Roport for the
opportunity to develope his art on modern to form an important part of his practice.
Year 1911.
Teddington, Parrott
lines.
Embodies the reports of the various
During the last few years Schools for
departments of the Laboratory, epitomizing
the activities of the year. There are also
Mothers have been started, of which the
lists of scientific papers published by mem-
“Infant Consultation " forms an import-
bers of the staff, of subscriptions, donations,
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506
THE ATHENÆUM
No. 4410, MAY 4, 1912
and acquisitions, and other items relevant quartz fibre. A strong beam of light was sent formed a longitudinal trunk along the correspond-
to the year's work.
obliquely through the cube, the angle of incidence ing supra-renal body. The hepatic portal vein
having been so adjusted that the beam entered arose by two roots, one from each renal portal
Paget (Stephen), FOR AND AGAINST EXPERI- through one half of one face, and emerged through vein, and ran the whole length of the gut up to
MENTS ON ANIMALS: EVIDENCE BEFORE
the half face diagonally opposite. The torque the liver. By the side of each oviduct was a
was determined from the observed angular de- conspicuous oviducal sinus, a vessel which had
THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON VIVISECTION, flection of the cube. Observations were made not been described previously in snakes.
3/6 net.
Lewis in hydrogen and air with pressures ranging from The right carotid artery was not present in the
Lord Cromer's Introduction is a sensible meter action was found to be inversely propor
•1 to 70 cm. Hg. The disturbance due to radio- adult, and to compensate for this the left side
of the head received its arterial blood by means
and moderate statement of his reasons for tional to the gas pressure, and could be eliminated. of three anastomoses-one beneath the medulla
supporting vivisection. The book itself After allowing for the reflected beams, the ob- oblongata, one beneath the fore-brain, and one
is a useful summary of the report of the
served torque (of the order 2 x 10-6 dyne cm. ) was beneath the sympbysis of the lower jaw. The
recent Royal Commission, giving evidence within 2 per cent of that calculated from the part of the anterior cardinal vein in the head of the
on both sides of this much discussed and
embryo was completely replaced during develop-
Dr. T. C. Porter read a third paper on 'The ment by a new vessel, the lateral cephalic vein.
difficult subject, and the chief results ob- Study of Flicker. '
Mr. Julian S. Huxley read a paper containing
tained during the past thirty years by the
an account of The Courtship of the Redshank
help of experiments on animals. The author
(Totanus calidris). ' The first purpose of this
writes as Secretary of the Research Defence
paper was to draw attention to the many valuable
ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. -- April 24. -
Society.
results to be obtained by simple watching of very
Prof. A. O. Benson in the chair. -Mr. Joseph common British birds; and the second was to
Offord read a paper upon Recent Discoveries of show how the facts observed in the redshank
Tables annuelles de Constantes et Données Classical Literature,' in which he gave an account bore on the theory of sexual selection. In this
numériques de Chimie, de Physique et of these for the last twenty years. With few species there was no rival display between several
de Technologie : Vol. I. , Année 1910, treatise by Archimedes, all the more important single male, as in man.
males at once : a single female was courted by a
21/6 net. Paris, Gauthier-Villars ;
The courtship, started
remains recovered have been preserved upon with a pursuit, the hen running in a circuitous
London, Churchill Egyptian papyri, or vellum pieces found in course, followed by the cock. The pursuit was
Egypt. Of the many authors enumerated, the
United States National Museum :
followed by a display, but only if the hen were
1887, chief were the comedies by Menander, the Odes willing that the courtship should continue.
CENSERS AND INCENSE OF MEXICO AND of Bacchylides, the Commentary of Didymus During display the cock uttered a special note,
CENTRAL AMERICA, by Walter Hough;
upon the Philippics of Demosthenes, the Pæans spread his tail, raised his wings above his back,
1890, VARIATION IN THE SKULL AND
of Pindar, the Apology of Antiphon, and the and advanced with a curious high-stepping action
HORNS OF THE ISABELLA GAZELLE, by is particularly valuable for the many extracts he
If the female
poems of Callimachus. The work by Didymus towards the now stationary female.
so wished, pairing followed the display. But in
Gerrit S. Miller, jun. ; 1897, NAMES gives of lost historians. To these were added quite 90 per cent of observed courtships the
APPLIED TO BEES OF THE GENUS OSMIA a description of the part recovered of the History female rejected the male, either during the pursuit
FOUND IN NORTH AMERICA, by T. D. A.
of Cratippus, which covers some of the period or during the display, by simply flying away,
Cockerell ; 1898, NEW ARENACEOUS
contained in Xenophon's 'Hellenica'; and a when the cock was quite powerless to enforce his
summary of one of the missing books of Livy, and desires. Thus the consent of the hen was abso-
FORAMINIFERA FROM THE PHILIPPINE several anonymous chronologies and lists of Olympic lutely necessary if pairing were to take place, and
ISLANDS AND CONTIGUOUS WATERS, by victors. Poets were represented by the Ætia' this consent was usually withheld : in other words,
Joseph A. Cushman; and 1899, THE and ' lambi' of Callimachus, containing the story selection by the female was a reality in the
CHIMÆROID FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE Meliambi of Cercidas, and the curious exultant
redshank.
ISLANDS, with Description of a New poetry of Timotheus of Miletus celebrating The plumage of the two sexes was identical, and
Other interesting points were as follows :
Species, by Hugh M. Smith.
Salamis. The author, whilst commenting upon was decidedly cryptic when the birds were at
Washington, Govt. Printing Office these discoveries, carefully specified scores of rest. During flight the white underside of the
fragments of authors of every description, dis- wings and the white tail were conspicuously
Pampblets.
cussing the attributions of these pieces. He
revealed, and probably served as recognition
included all departments of literature, musical, marks. The significance of the red legs was
Bell (Robert), THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF aries, lexicographers, and grammarians
medical, and scientific works, scholia, comment-
unknown. During display the male drew atten-
from
tion to the underside of the wings by raising and
OF CANCER.
the last trio many precious quotations from vibrating them, to the tail by fanning it out,
This pamphlet is issued by the Society for thus afforded a store for reference in the compila-
perished books being obtainable. The paper and to the red legs by his slow, high steps ; besides
the Prevention and Relief of Cancer, an
this he uttered a note heard at no other time.
tion of any future corpus of classic authors. Thus, since the actual colours and structures used
organization evidently started by anti-
in display were found in both sexes, the only
vivisectionists. Dr. Bell tells us that, if
peculiarly male possession—the only secondary
we eat no meat or fish and no cooked
sexual character of the redshank—was a special
vegetables, we shall never suffer from cancer.
ROYAL
INSTITUTION. --May 1. - Sir James behaviour, devoted to showing off these common
He considers all research in which experi- chair. -The Annual Report of the Committee of
Crichton-Browne, Treasurer and V. -P. , in the
colours and structures in a special way.
ments are made as useless. He gives no
This seemed to show that secondary sexual
Visitors for the year 1911, testifying to the con- differences in birds were originally differences of
justification for his own extraordinary views, tinued prosperity and eficient management
of behaviour, and that only when these were estab-
but refers to another medical man as the Institution, was read and adopted, and the lished did differences of colour and structure come
maniac because he is reported to have said report on the Davy Faraday Research to be developed.
that cancer was due to the eating of tomatoes.
Laboratory of the Royal Institution, which Mrs. E. W. Sexton contributed a paper based
on a small collection of brackish-water Amphipoda
The whole pamphlet is one that we cannot accompanied it, was also read. Forty-six new
а
were elected in 1911. Sixty-three from Bremerhaven. Special reference was made
treat seriously.
lectures and nineteen evening discourses were to a new species of Gammarus, which inhabited
delivered in the year. The books and pamphlets both fresh and brackish water, and was interesting
presented amounted to 281 volumes, making, as showing in a marked manner the effects of
with 677 volumes (including periodicals bound) environment on development.
purchased by the Managers, a total of 958
Mr. c. Tate Regan read a paper containing
SOCIETIES.
volumes added to the library in the year.
descriptions of ten new species of South American
fishes of the family Loricariidæ in the British
ROYAL. -April 25. - Sir Archibald Geikie,
Museum collection.
President, in the chair. -Mr. J. S. Townsend read
a paper on The Diffusion and Mobility of Ions
ZOOLOGICAL. –April 23. -Dr. 8. F. Harmer,
in a Magnetic Field. '
V. -P. , in the chair.
Mr. J. J. Manley read a paper. On the Observed The Secretary, exhibited a living specimen of CHALLENGER. -April 24. —Dr. E. J. Allen in
Variations in the Temperature Coefficients of a young female dorsal hyrax (Dendrohyrax the chair. —Dr. H. Muir Evans read a paper on
Precision Balance. ' In this paper was given an dorsalis) from Nigeria, recently presented to the the Poison Organs and Venoms of Poisonous
account of experiments which supplement and Society by Mr. J. L. McKellar, and also a number
Fishes. ' After reviewing previous work, he
extend an earlier research (Phil. Trans. , A, 210, of photographs of an elephant kraal in Siam pointed out that the researches of Briot were
p. 387) dealing with changes which may be which had been presented to the Society by Sir incorrect, and that this observer had obtained
observed in the resting-points of precision balances. Cecil Clementi Smith.
his results by means of a filtered glycerine extract
Dr. Guy Barlow read a paper ‘On the Torque Mr. C. H. O'Donoghue read a paper on 'The of the spines of Trachinus (the weever). Dr.
produced by a Beam of Light in Oblique Refrac- Circulatory System of the Common Grass-Snake Evans had used fresh venom for his experiments,
tion through a Glass Plate. ' In accordance with (Tropidonotus natrix). ' Several interesting features and found that hæmolysis took place with fresh
the principle that light carries with it a stream of correlated with the loss of limbs and the elonga- venom alone, without the addition of heated
momentum, the passage of a beam of light tion of the body were stated to occur in the blood-
But if fresh venom were mixed with
through a refracting plate should give rise to a vessels. The vessels, like the viscera they sup- glycerine and filtered through_filter-paper, the
torque on the plate, it being supposed that the plied, were asymmetrical; not only were those results were similar to those of Briot; they were,
reaction is on the matter through which the beañ on the right anterior to those on the left, but they | however, different if a Berkefeld filter were used
is passing. In 1905 Prof. Poynting and the were also noticeably larger. No indication of instead of filter-paper, just as the action of liver-
author made experiments which confirmed this the descent of snakes from a limb-bearing ancestry extract is affected according as it is filtered
result; but as disturbances, due to gas action, was to be found in the circulatory system, save through cloth or through filter-paper. Dr. Evans
were not eliminated, more exact measurements perhaps a small pair of veins which might corre- then described the conclusions of Porta, from
appeared desirable. In the present experiment spond to the pelvic veins in Lacertilia. There was examination of sections of the spine of the sting
the original double-prism arrangement was aban- a marked tendency for the vessels to form longi- ray (Trygon pastinacea)-conclusions which had
doned in favour of a single cube. A glass cube, | tudinal systems, e. g. , the arteries supplying the | been disputed by Pawlowsky, who stated that
of 1 cm. edge, was suspended axially by a fine ' gut and the fat-bodies ; and each ovarian artery Porta had confused glandular tissue with
à
serum.
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THE ATHENÆUM
507
can
seen
deformed blood-corpuscles, and denied that
poison-glands with groups of small cells existed
in Trygon. By microphotographs Dr. Evans then
Science Gossip.
showed not only that Porta's triangular glands
FINE ARTS
really existed, but also that they were only part A
of a large system present throughout the whole
PRELIMINARY programme has been
spine. The latter was described as consisting :
issued for this year's meeting of the British
(i) of an intra-caudal portion, of bony mesh-work Association, which is to take place at
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
containing round-celled glandular tissue and Dundee from September 4th to 11th.
masses of secretion surrounded by flattened cells ;
SIR CLEMENTS MARKHAM is to lecture on
[Notice in these columns does not preclude longer
(2) of an intermediate portion, with the ventral
review. )
ridge still embedded in the tail, with gland Icebergs' at the Royal Societies' Club next
follicles either radiating towards the convex Thursday.
Bussy (Dorothy), EUGÈNE DELACROIX, 2/6
surface or running longitudinally in the ventral
net.
Duckworth
prominence : formed secretion
be
YET a new form of dark radiation seems
This is a reissue of a popular and readable
running into the lateral grooves; (3) the free
to have been discovered by Prof. A. Remelé, account of a painter whose influence on
portion, with the triangular masses of Porta, and who has been experimenting for some years others was more important than his intrinsic
cavities occupied by small-celled tissue and
formed secretion; towards the tip of the spine this substance gives off at ordinary tempera- make out in literary form a case for consider
with nitrate of boron. He has found that achievement. It is comparatively easy to
these become three, one in each lateral portion
and one in the ventral ridge. The hæmolytic
tures radiations which will influence
properties of these venoms were dealt with ; and photographic plate through several thicking Delacroix a great master, particularly if
we regard the artistic innovators of the last
in the ensuing discussion the painful toxic effects nesses of black paper, leather, india-rubber, forty years as permanently possessing the
of the sting were described by one speaker from
personal experience.
and glass, and the images obtained strongly interest they legitimately had for their
resemble those given by the X-rays. The contemporaries, and the author performs
radiations are completely absorbed by metals. this pious task persuasively enough to the
Electroscopic examination shows that nitrato
BRITISH NUMISMATIC. –April 24. -Mr. Carlyon- of boron, like nitrate of uranium, emits
sympathetic reader.
Britton, President, in the chair - Dr. Payne electrons or negative particles, and it is Furst (Herbert E. A. ), INDIVIDUALITY AND
Dr. P. Nelson contributed a treatise on "The suggested that this points to some connexion ART, 3/6 net.
Macmillan
Pre-Revolutionary Coinage of America,' in which he of nitrogen with radio-active phenomena This is a clever piece of historical criticism
explained in detail the series of coins beginning hitherto unsuspected. It is certainly curious in the form of an analysis of 'The Fighting
with the ryal of Elizabeth, bearing a legend which
refers to the colonization of Virginia by Raleigh
that up to the present radio-activity has Téméraire. ' The author's thesis is that
in 1584, and closing with the halfpence and
generally manifested itself in the presence Turner's art was only possible when and
farthings of 1773 and 1774, the latest issues prior
of salts.
where it actually arose. Paul Bril, William
to the Declaration of Independence.
Mr. J. B. S. Macllwaine furnished an interesting
van der Velde the younger, and Claude
Two English observers, Messrs. Macalister
account of the discovery of a hoard of 226 silver and Bramwell, having lately called atten. Lorraine show the elements of his style in
coins at Abbeylands, Abbeylieux, co. Kildare. tion to the efficacy of the extent of the
an earlier stage, and the author ingeniously
The treasure, which was contained in a brown
root of Symphytum consolida or black briony traces the way in which Turner came to
jug of Bellarmine ware, had evidently been
hidden during the troubles of Charles I. 's reign,
as a styptic and astringent, it has been study them. For instance, Sir George
and comprised the silver currency common to
examined in Paris by different chemists, Beaumont collected Claudes, which were
Ireland since the reign of Edward VI. , with the with the result that it has been found to brought from France by the exiled nobility,
additions of one quarter-thistle of James VI. of contain a large quantity of allantoin. This, set a fashion in them, and by his praise of
Scotland, French money of Louis XIII. and
Henry IV. , and forty-five portions of Spanish
in its turn, proves to be a great promoter Claude spurred Turner on to emulate him.
dollars much worn and clipped. Amongst the
of cellular proliferation, and therefore to be The facts of Turner's life are also adduced
coins of Charles I. were an Ormonde sixpence
of great use in the closing of obstinate to show how he became a painter at all; how
and a half-crown of the “ blacksmith" type.
wounds and sluggish ulcers.
his solitary disposition, which unfitted him
Mr. Edward Wooler showed six specimens from
for society, led him to landscape painting;
RECENT observations of lunar eclipses how his love of champagne and whitebait
a. quantity of plain base-metal pieces recently
discovered in widening a road at Darlington.
and occultations by Prof. W. Luther of sent him to Greenwich on the day when the
These, Mr. Fentiman explained, were a forger's
Düsseldorf have led him to the conclusion old warship was towed to her last berth,
stock-in-trade and intended to pass as the worn that the moon possesses an atmosphere, or and so on ad infinitum, though not by any
shillings current towards the end of the reign of
is, at any rate, surrounded by a layer of means ad nauseam.
George III.
In illustration of Dr. Nelson's paper, Mr.
absorbent matter, not less than a hundred Therefore the author concludes that the
Bernard Roth and Mr. S. M. Spink exhibited series
kilometres high. This is chiefly based on picture " happened as inevitably as the Fall
of the rarer examples of the early American the fact that on the occultation by the moon of Rome, and is as much to Turner's credit
coinage.
of the planet Mars on December 5th last
Mr. Shirley Fox showed a groat, half-groat, the part of the planet seen in outline on the We are alarmed. If it is true, we are but
as the rotation of the earth upon its axis. ''
penny, and farthing-the last hitherto unknown
-of the Calais mint of Henry VI. , bearing a leaf
moon's surface seemed to be veiled in cloud automatons in a mechanical world. We
upon the King's bust and after the word CALISIE of a grey colour, which has led to some think that Mr. Furst hardly does justice
in the legend.
confusion on the part of English common. to the metaphysical difficulties of the matter,
tators on the announcement, owing to their and he accepts the practical view of cause
having mistaken grey (grau) for green (grün), and effect as an ultimate fact of meta-
seems to lie.
Mox. Royal Institution, 5. -General Meeting.
A STATISTICAL review of cometary dis- physics. There the
Surveyors' Institution, 7. - Principles of Silviculture,' Mr. coveries discloses the remarkable fact that
Nor can
we deny individuality without
J. Bunny. (Junior Meeting. )
Society of Engineers, 7. 30. - The Effect of Intermittency in of 376 comets discovered since the sixteenth denying personal identity and a host of
limiting Electric Traction for City and Suburban Passenger
Transpoct, Mr. W. Y. Lewis.
century, no fewer than 64 were found at
other convenient postulates. But if we
Aristotelian, 8. - Imagery and Memory,'Miss Beatrice Edgell. Marseilles, which thus takes the first place
refuse to accept Mr. Furst's ideas of
Institute of British Architects, 8. - Annual Meeting.
Society of Arts, &-'Heavy Oil Engines,' Lecture II. , Capt. in the list. Paris comes next with 46 dis philosophy, we can watch with pleasure
H. R. Sankey. (doward Lectures. )
Geographical, 8. 30. - United Nigeria, Mr. C. L. Temple. coveries ; Genova, Florence, Lick, Nice, and the pricking of certain bubbles of that senti-
Tues. Royal Institution. 3-fasect Distribution, with Special
Reference to the British Islands,' Lecture IL, Mr. F. B. Berlin following with 16, 16, 14, 12, and 12 mental criticism which finds in creative
Society of Arts, 4. 30. – Colonial Vine Culture,' Mr. Alan
respectively. Great Britain is
art intentional symbolism and the conscious
nowhere
Burgoyne. (Colonial Section. )
in this particular form of competition.
suggestion of intellectual values. “It is
Anthropological Institute, 8. 15. -'Geographical Distribution
of Vertain Primitive Appliances,' Mr. A. Balfour.
Of the 376 comets, 106 were periodic, and only the clumsy, uninventive artist who
Zoological, 8. 30. - On a Collection of Fishes made by Mr. A.
Blayney Percival in British East Africa to the East of Lake
19 have been observed at more than one
thinks,” said Ruskin, though he forgot his
Wasps of the Family Scoliidse, subfamilies Eliding and
return; only 56 have been visible to the
own dictum the moment after.
Anthoboscidae, Mr. R. E. Turner; Notes on the Spanish
Ihex,' Mr. A. Chapman.
naked eye, and 7 could be seen in full day- Lewer (H. W. ) and Wall (J. C. ), CHURCH
WED. Society of Arts, 8. - British Rule in Nigeria,' Mr. E. D. Morel. light.
CHESTS IN ESSEX.
THURS. Royal Institution, 8. -Recent Explorations in the Canadian
kocky Mountains,' Lecture II. , Prof. J. N. Collie.
THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY Reprinted from The Essex Review An
Royal, 4. 30. - On the Variation with Temperature of the
Rate of a Chemical Change,' Dr. A. Vernon Harcourt will hold a meeting at Southport from instructive essay on the construction, carving,
Some Phenomena of sunspots and of
Saturday, the 11th inst. Fellows and others and ornamentation of the ancient chests
Quantities of the Elements producing the Lines in Spectra
of the Uxyhydrogen Flame and spark,' Bir W. N. Hartley proposing to attend the meeting and the preserved in Essex churches.
and Mr. 4. W. Mous: The Transformations of the Active dinner are requested to communicate with Zur Kunstgeschichte des Auslandes : Heft 93,
Deposit of Thorium,' Messrs. E. Marsden and C. G. Darwin;
'On the P Particles reflected by Sheets of Matter of the Secretary, 70, Victoria Street, S. W. , not
AEGINETEN UND ARCHÄOLOGEN, EINE
Different Thicknesses,' Mr. W. Wilson.
later than Thursday next.
KRITIK, von Maximilian von Groote,
D. O. Watt Hour Moters, more especially for Traction
THE COUNCIL OF
Londs,' Messrs. 8. W.
wirepulling under these conditions be- population.
creatures which throng the lowest levels of
the unseen world. "? It forms No. 2 of
come almost an insult to the understand- Mr. Woodcock says that, if we want the Manuals of Occultism.
ing, and their pettiness degrades the young enthusiast to join the ranks of the
traditions of our system of government. “G. P. " in the future, we must interest Forsyth (A. R. ), LECTURES ON THE DIFFER-
ENTIAL GEOMETRY OF CURVES AND SUR-
The greatest stumbling-block to the him in his work and enable him to keep
FACES, 21/ net.
efficient working of the Act is at present in touch with modern ideas ; he suggests
Cambridge University Press.
the position of the doctors. A lack of that the Poor Law infirmary should admit
The substance of & course of lectures
confidence, a feeling that the men who the practitioner as an out-patient phy- delivered by Dr. Forsyth during his tenuro
are going to bear the heat and burden sician or surgeon, who might have a few of the Sadlerian Professorship at Cambridge
of the day have not been sufficiently in-patient beds as well-in fact, copy the forms the basis of the present work. Not-
consulted, is largely responsible for the system of our general hospitals. By our withstanding its elaborate nature, it does
attitude of hostility assumed by a con- present arrangements, directly the patient not pretend to be anything like a complete
siderable number of the profession at
is admitted into the infirmary, the resident treatment of the subject, but is rather
the present time. The author of this
staff take the responsibility, and the intended, in the author's words,
volume points out that it is the generall he is unable in these circumstances to fitted for this purpose, inter alia, by useful
family attendant loses sight of the case ;
students who, later, may devote themselves
to original work. ” The volume is well.
practitioner who is going either to mar
or make the Act, here criticized some-
watch the effect of treatment and follow historical and bibliographical introductions.
what severely, and that our legislators the course of events, which would be a to the different chapters.
could scarcely have realized how intimate great educational advantage to him.
Health Habits, and How to Train Them, with
is the relationship existing between patient The Board of Education receives some
an Introduction by a Leading Physician,
and doctor, particularly amongst the poor. criticism for not appointing the general
1/ net.
Cassell
The “G. P. " is often the best friend of practitioner to the post of medical school
He would in most
A handy manual which will serve as a
the poor; he also not infrequently acts inspector in all cases.
the part of a guide and counsellor. Mr. instances be the man on the spot, who usefu! guide on such subjects as fatigue, over-
exertion, and the like. It gives sound advice
De Carle Woodcock was at one time a Poor would know the homes from which the
as to conserving the bodily activities, avoid-
children came.
Law Medical Officer, and he gives what
ing mechanical routine in taking exercise,
cannot be designated as other than a Then, again, with regard to the problem and the like.
thrilling account of his experiences. The of tuberculosis, the G. P. ," if he were
Jones (R. Henry), EXPERIMENTAL DOMESTIC
reader will obtain a very fair notion of given the opportunity, is by far the best SCIENCE, 2/6
Heinemann
the work which a medical man is called man who could be chosen to search out
This book should be a success, not only
upon to do. The situation is summed the cases requiring help. If he were al- with students of domestic economy, but
up from the patient's point of view by lowed access to a laboratory in his locality also with the general public, for it contains
saying that
which was presided over by a skilled a large store of useful knowledge. Every
pathologist, he could have the sputum chapter deals with some process or article
" in a proportion of cases the general prac. examined for tubercle bacilli ; and he connected with daily life, and explains by
titioner seeks the aid of a specialist ; but he could certainly treat the patients in their aid of experiment whats course should the
medicine. He is a safe man to entrust your through the tuberculosis dispensaries) just sections on the preparation of aftredol arts
homes (which is at present being done minimum of cost and of labour. The
health to; the specialist is not. ”
as efficiently as any one else. There is analysis and adulteration, are particularly
The discontent amongst both the people also no reason why he should not discover good.
and the doctor is due to the bad system contact cases, and give tuberculin when Methley (Noël T. ), THE LIFE-BOAT AND ITS
at present in vogue, and not to want it is needed.
of skill on the part of the medical
STORY, 7/6 net. Sidgwick & Jackson
This is really a matter of the greatest
attendant.
An exhaustive and able study of the origin
importance. The public do not realize and development of the life-boat, its equip,
The nation has at last become fully the costliness of these dispensaries when ment, structure, methods of working, and
alive to the importance of preventing the work could be done by the men on the general practicability. Useful comparisons
disease.
There can be no question that spot, and, further, they do not consider with the life-boats of other nations are also
the future of medicine lies in this direction, the ultimate harm that will result if the It is likely to rank as a standard work on
furnished, and the book is well illustrated.
also in the early recognition of disease young man fresh from the hospitals, and the subject.
when present. The author shows clearly willing to live amongst the poor is pre-
that the “G. P. " has not had the requisite vented from treating cases which ought National Physical Laboratory Roport for the
opportunity to develope his art on modern to form an important part of his practice.
Year 1911.
Teddington, Parrott
lines.
Embodies the reports of the various
During the last few years Schools for
departments of the Laboratory, epitomizing
the activities of the year. There are also
Mothers have been started, of which the
lists of scientific papers published by mem-
“Infant Consultation " forms an import-
bers of the staff, of subscriptions, donations,
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506
THE ATHENÆUM
No. 4410, MAY 4, 1912
and acquisitions, and other items relevant quartz fibre. A strong beam of light was sent formed a longitudinal trunk along the correspond-
to the year's work.
obliquely through the cube, the angle of incidence ing supra-renal body. The hepatic portal vein
having been so adjusted that the beam entered arose by two roots, one from each renal portal
Paget (Stephen), FOR AND AGAINST EXPERI- through one half of one face, and emerged through vein, and ran the whole length of the gut up to
MENTS ON ANIMALS: EVIDENCE BEFORE
the half face diagonally opposite. The torque the liver. By the side of each oviduct was a
was determined from the observed angular de- conspicuous oviducal sinus, a vessel which had
THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON VIVISECTION, flection of the cube. Observations were made not been described previously in snakes.
3/6 net.
Lewis in hydrogen and air with pressures ranging from The right carotid artery was not present in the
Lord Cromer's Introduction is a sensible meter action was found to be inversely propor
•1 to 70 cm. Hg. The disturbance due to radio- adult, and to compensate for this the left side
of the head received its arterial blood by means
and moderate statement of his reasons for tional to the gas pressure, and could be eliminated. of three anastomoses-one beneath the medulla
supporting vivisection. The book itself After allowing for the reflected beams, the ob- oblongata, one beneath the fore-brain, and one
is a useful summary of the report of the
served torque (of the order 2 x 10-6 dyne cm. ) was beneath the sympbysis of the lower jaw. The
recent Royal Commission, giving evidence within 2 per cent of that calculated from the part of the anterior cardinal vein in the head of the
on both sides of this much discussed and
embryo was completely replaced during develop-
Dr. T. C. Porter read a third paper on 'The ment by a new vessel, the lateral cephalic vein.
difficult subject, and the chief results ob- Study of Flicker. '
Mr. Julian S. Huxley read a paper containing
tained during the past thirty years by the
an account of The Courtship of the Redshank
help of experiments on animals. The author
(Totanus calidris). ' The first purpose of this
writes as Secretary of the Research Defence
paper was to draw attention to the many valuable
ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. -- April 24. -
Society.
results to be obtained by simple watching of very
Prof. A. O. Benson in the chair. -Mr. Joseph common British birds; and the second was to
Offord read a paper upon Recent Discoveries of show how the facts observed in the redshank
Tables annuelles de Constantes et Données Classical Literature,' in which he gave an account bore on the theory of sexual selection. In this
numériques de Chimie, de Physique et of these for the last twenty years. With few species there was no rival display between several
de Technologie : Vol. I. , Année 1910, treatise by Archimedes, all the more important single male, as in man.
males at once : a single female was courted by a
21/6 net. Paris, Gauthier-Villars ;
The courtship, started
remains recovered have been preserved upon with a pursuit, the hen running in a circuitous
London, Churchill Egyptian papyri, or vellum pieces found in course, followed by the cock. The pursuit was
Egypt. Of the many authors enumerated, the
United States National Museum :
followed by a display, but only if the hen were
1887, chief were the comedies by Menander, the Odes willing that the courtship should continue.
CENSERS AND INCENSE OF MEXICO AND of Bacchylides, the Commentary of Didymus During display the cock uttered a special note,
CENTRAL AMERICA, by Walter Hough;
upon the Philippics of Demosthenes, the Pæans spread his tail, raised his wings above his back,
1890, VARIATION IN THE SKULL AND
of Pindar, the Apology of Antiphon, and the and advanced with a curious high-stepping action
HORNS OF THE ISABELLA GAZELLE, by is particularly valuable for the many extracts he
If the female
poems of Callimachus. The work by Didymus towards the now stationary female.
so wished, pairing followed the display. But in
Gerrit S. Miller, jun. ; 1897, NAMES gives of lost historians. To these were added quite 90 per cent of observed courtships the
APPLIED TO BEES OF THE GENUS OSMIA a description of the part recovered of the History female rejected the male, either during the pursuit
FOUND IN NORTH AMERICA, by T. D. A.
of Cratippus, which covers some of the period or during the display, by simply flying away,
Cockerell ; 1898, NEW ARENACEOUS
contained in Xenophon's 'Hellenica'; and a when the cock was quite powerless to enforce his
summary of one of the missing books of Livy, and desires. Thus the consent of the hen was abso-
FORAMINIFERA FROM THE PHILIPPINE several anonymous chronologies and lists of Olympic lutely necessary if pairing were to take place, and
ISLANDS AND CONTIGUOUS WATERS, by victors. Poets were represented by the Ætia' this consent was usually withheld : in other words,
Joseph A. Cushman; and 1899, THE and ' lambi' of Callimachus, containing the story selection by the female was a reality in the
CHIMÆROID FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE Meliambi of Cercidas, and the curious exultant
redshank.
ISLANDS, with Description of a New poetry of Timotheus of Miletus celebrating The plumage of the two sexes was identical, and
Other interesting points were as follows :
Species, by Hugh M. Smith.
Salamis. The author, whilst commenting upon was decidedly cryptic when the birds were at
Washington, Govt. Printing Office these discoveries, carefully specified scores of rest. During flight the white underside of the
fragments of authors of every description, dis- wings and the white tail were conspicuously
Pampblets.
cussing the attributions of these pieces. He
revealed, and probably served as recognition
included all departments of literature, musical, marks. The significance of the red legs was
Bell (Robert), THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF aries, lexicographers, and grammarians
medical, and scientific works, scholia, comment-
unknown. During display the male drew atten-
from
tion to the underside of the wings by raising and
OF CANCER.
the last trio many precious quotations from vibrating them, to the tail by fanning it out,
This pamphlet is issued by the Society for thus afforded a store for reference in the compila-
perished books being obtainable. The paper and to the red legs by his slow, high steps ; besides
the Prevention and Relief of Cancer, an
this he uttered a note heard at no other time.
tion of any future corpus of classic authors. Thus, since the actual colours and structures used
organization evidently started by anti-
in display were found in both sexes, the only
vivisectionists. Dr. Bell tells us that, if
peculiarly male possession—the only secondary
we eat no meat or fish and no cooked
sexual character of the redshank—was a special
vegetables, we shall never suffer from cancer.
ROYAL
INSTITUTION. --May 1. - Sir James behaviour, devoted to showing off these common
He considers all research in which experi- chair. -The Annual Report of the Committee of
Crichton-Browne, Treasurer and V. -P. , in the
colours and structures in a special way.
ments are made as useless. He gives no
This seemed to show that secondary sexual
Visitors for the year 1911, testifying to the con- differences in birds were originally differences of
justification for his own extraordinary views, tinued prosperity and eficient management
of behaviour, and that only when these were estab-
but refers to another medical man as the Institution, was read and adopted, and the lished did differences of colour and structure come
maniac because he is reported to have said report on the Davy Faraday Research to be developed.
that cancer was due to the eating of tomatoes.
Laboratory of the Royal Institution, which Mrs. E. W. Sexton contributed a paper based
on a small collection of brackish-water Amphipoda
The whole pamphlet is one that we cannot accompanied it, was also read. Forty-six new
а
were elected in 1911. Sixty-three from Bremerhaven. Special reference was made
treat seriously.
lectures and nineteen evening discourses were to a new species of Gammarus, which inhabited
delivered in the year. The books and pamphlets both fresh and brackish water, and was interesting
presented amounted to 281 volumes, making, as showing in a marked manner the effects of
with 677 volumes (including periodicals bound) environment on development.
purchased by the Managers, a total of 958
Mr. c. Tate Regan read a paper containing
SOCIETIES.
volumes added to the library in the year.
descriptions of ten new species of South American
fishes of the family Loricariidæ in the British
ROYAL. -April 25. - Sir Archibald Geikie,
Museum collection.
President, in the chair. -Mr. J. S. Townsend read
a paper on The Diffusion and Mobility of Ions
ZOOLOGICAL. –April 23. -Dr. 8. F. Harmer,
in a Magnetic Field. '
V. -P. , in the chair.
Mr. J. J. Manley read a paper. On the Observed The Secretary, exhibited a living specimen of CHALLENGER. -April 24. —Dr. E. J. Allen in
Variations in the Temperature Coefficients of a young female dorsal hyrax (Dendrohyrax the chair. —Dr. H. Muir Evans read a paper on
Precision Balance. ' In this paper was given an dorsalis) from Nigeria, recently presented to the the Poison Organs and Venoms of Poisonous
account of experiments which supplement and Society by Mr. J. L. McKellar, and also a number
Fishes. ' After reviewing previous work, he
extend an earlier research (Phil. Trans. , A, 210, of photographs of an elephant kraal in Siam pointed out that the researches of Briot were
p. 387) dealing with changes which may be which had been presented to the Society by Sir incorrect, and that this observer had obtained
observed in the resting-points of precision balances. Cecil Clementi Smith.
his results by means of a filtered glycerine extract
Dr. Guy Barlow read a paper ‘On the Torque Mr. C. H. O'Donoghue read a paper on 'The of the spines of Trachinus (the weever). Dr.
produced by a Beam of Light in Oblique Refrac- Circulatory System of the Common Grass-Snake Evans had used fresh venom for his experiments,
tion through a Glass Plate. ' In accordance with (Tropidonotus natrix). ' Several interesting features and found that hæmolysis took place with fresh
the principle that light carries with it a stream of correlated with the loss of limbs and the elonga- venom alone, without the addition of heated
momentum, the passage of a beam of light tion of the body were stated to occur in the blood-
But if fresh venom were mixed with
through a refracting plate should give rise to a vessels. The vessels, like the viscera they sup- glycerine and filtered through_filter-paper, the
torque on the plate, it being supposed that the plied, were asymmetrical; not only were those results were similar to those of Briot; they were,
reaction is on the matter through which the beañ on the right anterior to those on the left, but they | however, different if a Berkefeld filter were used
is passing. In 1905 Prof. Poynting and the were also noticeably larger. No indication of instead of filter-paper, just as the action of liver-
author made experiments which confirmed this the descent of snakes from a limb-bearing ancestry extract is affected according as it is filtered
result; but as disturbances, due to gas action, was to be found in the circulatory system, save through cloth or through filter-paper. Dr. Evans
were not eliminated, more exact measurements perhaps a small pair of veins which might corre- then described the conclusions of Porta, from
appeared desirable. In the present experiment spond to the pelvic veins in Lacertilia. There was examination of sections of the spine of the sting
the original double-prism arrangement was aban- a marked tendency for the vessels to form longi- ray (Trygon pastinacea)-conclusions which had
doned in favour of a single cube. A glass cube, | tudinal systems, e. g. , the arteries supplying the | been disputed by Pawlowsky, who stated that
of 1 cm. edge, was suspended axially by a fine ' gut and the fat-bodies ; and each ovarian artery Porta had confused glandular tissue with
à
serum.
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THE ATHENÆUM
507
can
seen
deformed blood-corpuscles, and denied that
poison-glands with groups of small cells existed
in Trygon. By microphotographs Dr. Evans then
Science Gossip.
showed not only that Porta's triangular glands
FINE ARTS
really existed, but also that they were only part A
of a large system present throughout the whole
PRELIMINARY programme has been
spine. The latter was described as consisting :
issued for this year's meeting of the British
(i) of an intra-caudal portion, of bony mesh-work Association, which is to take place at
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
containing round-celled glandular tissue and Dundee from September 4th to 11th.
masses of secretion surrounded by flattened cells ;
SIR CLEMENTS MARKHAM is to lecture on
[Notice in these columns does not preclude longer
(2) of an intermediate portion, with the ventral
review. )
ridge still embedded in the tail, with gland Icebergs' at the Royal Societies' Club next
follicles either radiating towards the convex Thursday.
Bussy (Dorothy), EUGÈNE DELACROIX, 2/6
surface or running longitudinally in the ventral
net.
Duckworth
prominence : formed secretion
be
YET a new form of dark radiation seems
This is a reissue of a popular and readable
running into the lateral grooves; (3) the free
to have been discovered by Prof. A. Remelé, account of a painter whose influence on
portion, with the triangular masses of Porta, and who has been experimenting for some years others was more important than his intrinsic
cavities occupied by small-celled tissue and
formed secretion; towards the tip of the spine this substance gives off at ordinary tempera- make out in literary form a case for consider
with nitrate of boron. He has found that achievement. It is comparatively easy to
these become three, one in each lateral portion
and one in the ventral ridge. The hæmolytic
tures radiations which will influence
properties of these venoms were dealt with ; and photographic plate through several thicking Delacroix a great master, particularly if
we regard the artistic innovators of the last
in the ensuing discussion the painful toxic effects nesses of black paper, leather, india-rubber, forty years as permanently possessing the
of the sting were described by one speaker from
personal experience.
and glass, and the images obtained strongly interest they legitimately had for their
resemble those given by the X-rays. The contemporaries, and the author performs
radiations are completely absorbed by metals. this pious task persuasively enough to the
Electroscopic examination shows that nitrato
BRITISH NUMISMATIC. –April 24. -Mr. Carlyon- of boron, like nitrate of uranium, emits
sympathetic reader.
Britton, President, in the chair - Dr. Payne electrons or negative particles, and it is Furst (Herbert E. A. ), INDIVIDUALITY AND
Dr. P. Nelson contributed a treatise on "The suggested that this points to some connexion ART, 3/6 net.
Macmillan
Pre-Revolutionary Coinage of America,' in which he of nitrogen with radio-active phenomena This is a clever piece of historical criticism
explained in detail the series of coins beginning hitherto unsuspected. It is certainly curious in the form of an analysis of 'The Fighting
with the ryal of Elizabeth, bearing a legend which
refers to the colonization of Virginia by Raleigh
that up to the present radio-activity has Téméraire. ' The author's thesis is that
in 1584, and closing with the halfpence and
generally manifested itself in the presence Turner's art was only possible when and
farthings of 1773 and 1774, the latest issues prior
of salts.
where it actually arose. Paul Bril, William
to the Declaration of Independence.
Mr. J. B. S. Macllwaine furnished an interesting
van der Velde the younger, and Claude
Two English observers, Messrs. Macalister
account of the discovery of a hoard of 226 silver and Bramwell, having lately called atten. Lorraine show the elements of his style in
coins at Abbeylands, Abbeylieux, co. Kildare. tion to the efficacy of the extent of the
an earlier stage, and the author ingeniously
The treasure, which was contained in a brown
root of Symphytum consolida or black briony traces the way in which Turner came to
jug of Bellarmine ware, had evidently been
hidden during the troubles of Charles I. 's reign,
as a styptic and astringent, it has been study them. For instance, Sir George
and comprised the silver currency common to
examined in Paris by different chemists, Beaumont collected Claudes, which were
Ireland since the reign of Edward VI. , with the with the result that it has been found to brought from France by the exiled nobility,
additions of one quarter-thistle of James VI. of contain a large quantity of allantoin. This, set a fashion in them, and by his praise of
Scotland, French money of Louis XIII. and
Henry IV. , and forty-five portions of Spanish
in its turn, proves to be a great promoter Claude spurred Turner on to emulate him.
dollars much worn and clipped. Amongst the
of cellular proliferation, and therefore to be The facts of Turner's life are also adduced
coins of Charles I. were an Ormonde sixpence
of great use in the closing of obstinate to show how he became a painter at all; how
and a half-crown of the “ blacksmith" type.
wounds and sluggish ulcers.
his solitary disposition, which unfitted him
Mr. Edward Wooler showed six specimens from
for society, led him to landscape painting;
RECENT observations of lunar eclipses how his love of champagne and whitebait
a. quantity of plain base-metal pieces recently
discovered in widening a road at Darlington.
and occultations by Prof. W. Luther of sent him to Greenwich on the day when the
These, Mr. Fentiman explained, were a forger's
Düsseldorf have led him to the conclusion old warship was towed to her last berth,
stock-in-trade and intended to pass as the worn that the moon possesses an atmosphere, or and so on ad infinitum, though not by any
shillings current towards the end of the reign of
is, at any rate, surrounded by a layer of means ad nauseam.
George III.
In illustration of Dr. Nelson's paper, Mr.
absorbent matter, not less than a hundred Therefore the author concludes that the
Bernard Roth and Mr. S. M. Spink exhibited series
kilometres high. This is chiefly based on picture " happened as inevitably as the Fall
of the rarer examples of the early American the fact that on the occultation by the moon of Rome, and is as much to Turner's credit
coinage.
of the planet Mars on December 5th last
Mr. Shirley Fox showed a groat, half-groat, the part of the planet seen in outline on the We are alarmed. If it is true, we are but
as the rotation of the earth upon its axis. ''
penny, and farthing-the last hitherto unknown
-of the Calais mint of Henry VI. , bearing a leaf
moon's surface seemed to be veiled in cloud automatons in a mechanical world. We
upon the King's bust and after the word CALISIE of a grey colour, which has led to some think that Mr. Furst hardly does justice
in the legend.
confusion on the part of English common. to the metaphysical difficulties of the matter,
tators on the announcement, owing to their and he accepts the practical view of cause
having mistaken grey (grau) for green (grün), and effect as an ultimate fact of meta-
seems to lie.
Mox. Royal Institution, 5. -General Meeting.
A STATISTICAL review of cometary dis- physics. There the
Surveyors' Institution, 7. - Principles of Silviculture,' Mr. coveries discloses the remarkable fact that
Nor can
we deny individuality without
J. Bunny. (Junior Meeting. )
Society of Engineers, 7. 30. - The Effect of Intermittency in of 376 comets discovered since the sixteenth denying personal identity and a host of
limiting Electric Traction for City and Suburban Passenger
Transpoct, Mr. W. Y. Lewis.
century, no fewer than 64 were found at
other convenient postulates. But if we
Aristotelian, 8. - Imagery and Memory,'Miss Beatrice Edgell. Marseilles, which thus takes the first place
refuse to accept Mr. Furst's ideas of
Institute of British Architects, 8. - Annual Meeting.
Society of Arts, &-'Heavy Oil Engines,' Lecture II. , Capt. in the list. Paris comes next with 46 dis philosophy, we can watch with pleasure
H. R. Sankey. (doward Lectures. )
Geographical, 8. 30. - United Nigeria, Mr. C. L. Temple. coveries ; Genova, Florence, Lick, Nice, and the pricking of certain bubbles of that senti-
Tues. Royal Institution. 3-fasect Distribution, with Special
Reference to the British Islands,' Lecture IL, Mr. F. B. Berlin following with 16, 16, 14, 12, and 12 mental criticism which finds in creative
Society of Arts, 4. 30. – Colonial Vine Culture,' Mr. Alan
respectively. Great Britain is
art intentional symbolism and the conscious
nowhere
Burgoyne. (Colonial Section. )
in this particular form of competition.
suggestion of intellectual values. “It is
Anthropological Institute, 8. 15. -'Geographical Distribution
of Vertain Primitive Appliances,' Mr. A. Balfour.
Of the 376 comets, 106 were periodic, and only the clumsy, uninventive artist who
Zoological, 8. 30. - On a Collection of Fishes made by Mr. A.
Blayney Percival in British East Africa to the East of Lake
19 have been observed at more than one
thinks,” said Ruskin, though he forgot his
Wasps of the Family Scoliidse, subfamilies Eliding and
return; only 56 have been visible to the
own dictum the moment after.
Anthoboscidae, Mr. R. E. Turner; Notes on the Spanish
Ihex,' Mr. A. Chapman.
naked eye, and 7 could be seen in full day- Lewer (H. W. ) and Wall (J. C. ), CHURCH
WED. Society of Arts, 8. - British Rule in Nigeria,' Mr. E. D. Morel. light.
CHESTS IN ESSEX.
THURS. Royal Institution, 8. -Recent Explorations in the Canadian
kocky Mountains,' Lecture II. , Prof. J. N. Collie.
THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY Reprinted from The Essex Review An
Royal, 4. 30. - On the Variation with Temperature of the
Rate of a Chemical Change,' Dr. A. Vernon Harcourt will hold a meeting at Southport from instructive essay on the construction, carving,
Some Phenomena of sunspots and of
Saturday, the 11th inst. Fellows and others and ornamentation of the ancient chests
Quantities of the Elements producing the Lines in Spectra
of the Uxyhydrogen Flame and spark,' Bir W. N. Hartley proposing to attend the meeting and the preserved in Essex churches.
and Mr. 4. W. Mous: The Transformations of the Active dinner are requested to communicate with Zur Kunstgeschichte des Auslandes : Heft 93,
Deposit of Thorium,' Messrs. E. Marsden and C. G. Darwin;
'On the P Particles reflected by Sheets of Matter of the Secretary, 70, Victoria Street, S. W. , not
AEGINETEN UND ARCHÄOLOGEN, EINE
Different Thicknesses,' Mr. W. Wilson.
later than Thursday next.
KRITIK, von Maximilian von Groote,
D. O. Watt Hour Moters, more especially for Traction
THE COUNCIL OF
Londs,' Messrs. 8. W.
