Browne's bird “ with a
remarkable
eye”), account of the work of a tuberculin dis-
The starling's movements are the most and the lapwing with her chicks take pensary cannot add to the reputation of
bewildering of all, and are summarized the palm.
The starling's movements are the most and the lapwing with her chicks take pensary cannot add to the reputation of
bewildering of all, and are summarized the palm.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
Mr.
Campagnac wavers
an inn. The unsuccessful suitor, Mar- Otterstoun (William), JEAN CAMERON, 6/
between three different views of the origin
maduke Slack, is the better man of the
Simpkin & Marshall
two, and more alive than any one else in This book, in the outward form of a novel, of Art; and the advice is somewhat imprac-
the book. One of the lost opportunities
is in its essence a tract devoid of the student very little in teaching & normal
Froebelian optimism helps the
is the sketch of a popular novelist, numerous qualities that matter, in fiction. It has no fourth form to write a neat essay.
excerpts of whose works make one wonder character drawing, literary beauty, or con:
how he ever came to be popular, even with a structive skill to commend it. As a polemical Grahame-White (Claude) and Harper (Harry),
public which lacks discrimination.
work its value must depend upon the ideas
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The efforts at wit in this book-which is to ridicule. A sort of sublimated Christian air, much of which has no longer any lesson
presumably intended to be humorous-- Science is preached, and the institution of for the future, though it is instruotive to
leave us unmoved.
marriage is denounced as corrupting. note that the marked improvement in the
seems
are
ON
THE
some
net.
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flying of 1910 over that of the previous year
proceeds from the sale of tickots for the
was due to experience and dexterity, since the
lecture will be devoted to the St. Chris.
machines wore substantially identical. To
Literary Gossip. topher's Working Boys' Club.
encourage aeroplane manufacture for mili-
tant purposes is the aim of the book.
THE first of two volumes of the Riccardi
There are many signs of carelessness and
PROF. WILLIAM JAMES's letters are Press · Virgil,' uniform with the 'Horace'
repetition, though the
ground is well covered.
There is, of course, little in the way of ac- being collected for biographical purposes, and Catullus,' will be published imme-
complishment to be recorded, for the isolated and those who have any of them can diately, to be followed very shortly by
instance of Tripoli is as yet the only practical render assistance that will be highly the second volume. The text is that of
test made under service conditions, where appreciated by addressing Mr. Henry Henry Nettleship, edited by Prof. J. P.
the value of the aeroplane for scouting, James, Jun. , 95, Irving Street, Cambridge, Postgate. The Riccardi Press has re-
which was already self-evident, was amply Mass. Casual or brief letters may have ceived the commission to print a special
demonstrated.
leaving
Much of the book is mere conjecture, and, the person preserving them; and news book”; this will be in one volume, and
an interest or importance not apparent to edition as the Eton College
Grahame-White's authority, so far as the of the whereabouts of any of James's will not be for sale.
manipulation of an aeroplane is concerned, letters will be gratefully received.
MESSRS. CONSTABLE & Co. announce
we do not feel constrained always to follow
him where its military possibilities are in
LADY HOOKER will be grateful if any for early publication Through the
question, and we think he allows his evident of her friends who possess letters written Heart of Africa,' an account of a journey
prejudice against “gas-bags" to carry him by her late husband will kindly lend them on bicycles and on foot from Northern
too far in his condemnation of dirigible to her for the purposes of a biography Rhodesia, past the Great Lakes to Egypt,
balloons, which can undoubtedly accomplish which Messrs. Smith & Elder will publish. undertaken in 1910, by Mr. Frank H.
some services unattainable by the heavier. They should be forwarded to her address Melland, and Mr. Edward H. Cholmeley,
The book is handsomely got up, but oddly - The Camp, Sunningdale—and will be fully illustrated from photographs.
illustrated
A view, for instance, of the carefully returned.
They are also publishing 'In South
Breguet biplane should certainly have had
the preference over the unnecessary portrait
We understand that a knighthood has | Central Africa,' some of the experiences
of one of the authors. We note the absence been conferred on Mr. George Thompson and journeys of a mining engineer during
of an index, without which a book of this sort, Hutchinson, head of the well-known firm a stay of six years in that country, by
bristling with names of men and machines, is of Hutchinson & Co. , and chairman of Mr. J. M. Moubray, illustrated with a map
almost useless for purposes of reference. the old-established house of Hurst & and photographs.
Japan Society, London, TRANSACTIONS AND Blackett. As this appears to be a special THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS is
PROCEEDINGS, Vol. IX. , 1910–11, 5/ recognition of his services as a publisher, about to publish a study by Dr. H. P.
Frowde we congratulate him on attaining an Cholmeley of John of Gaddesden, who
Jones (Harry), LIBERALISM AND THE HOUSE honour which is seldom associated with
was the first English Court physician, and
OF LORDS: THE STORY OF THE VETO | the world of books and letters.
BATTLE, 1832–1911.
of his chief work, known as the 'Rosa
Methuen
A detailed account of the Parliamentary M. MOREL-FATIO has communicated Anglica. ' The Rosa,' written in 1314,
struggle between the Lords and Commons to the Académie des Inscriptions a letter,
was first printed in 1492, and is mentioned
is a useful addition to modern political hitherto
unpublished, of Margaret of York; by Chaucer. John of Gaddesden was
1832 up to the passage of the Parliament sister of Edward IV. , recommending the graduate of Oxford in arts, medicine,
Act the various occasions of conflict between impostor Perkin Warbeck to the notice and theology; he died in 1361, and is
the two chambers and the gradual develop- of Queen Isabella of Castile. It was not supposed to have been born about 1280.
ment of impatient indignation on the part known before that Margaret was concerned
G. P. PUTNAM'S Sons have in prepara-
of the Liberal party at the continued in the plot to pass off Perkin Warbeck tion English editions of Ellen Key's
obstruction of their legislation. The author as one of the Princes murdered in the volumes The Woman Movement' and
is able to give an account of the culminating Tower by order of Richard III. ,
which
stages from the point of view of an eye- was favoured by several crowned heads, original Swedish. Later they will include,
' Rahel Varnhagen, translated from the
in the drama are sketched with considerable including the #mperor Maximilian and in the "Ellen Key " Series, the Critical
skill
. In depicting the more popular figures, King James of Scotland.
and Biographical Study of Ellen Key,' by
and estimating the importance of the parts
they played, he does not forget to pay a
А
The Decline of
Louise Nystrom-Hamilton, translated by
well-deserved tribute to one statesman with Rhetoric will be delivered at East Mrs. J. E. de Fries.
whom the advertisement of public renown London College by Mr. Hilaire_Belloc MESSRS. SHERRATT & HUGHES are pub-
counts for very little. Lord Morley's skilful (Head of the Department of English lishing this month
piloting of the Parliament Bill in the face Literature at the College) on Monday, Politician, 1750–1912,' by Gerald Berkeley
The Manchester
of a passionately hostile opposition of peers the 17th inst. , at 6. 30 P. M. Admission Hertz, an account of the political thought
was the central episode in the concluding
phase. He led the House," says Mr. will be free.
of Manchester since the development of
Jones, " with superb ability," and
the full height of a great responsibility. ".
THE lecture on How to use the British the cotton trade first made it an important
centre. It examines the rise and fall of
The author might well have extended his Museum Reading Room,' delivered on
horizon beyond the walls of Westminster, and several occasions during 1911-12 at the the Manchester School, and gives a pic-
devoted a chapter to the wider and more Museum by Mr. R. A. Peddie, has now
ture of the forces that have moulded
fundamental significance of the contest. been revised and enlarged for publication, local opinion in the past and govern it
But this aspect of the problem is perhaps and will be issued by Messrs. Grafton & | to-day.
too far-reaching to be included in a volume Co. , 69, Great Russell Street, W. C. ,
which does not pretend to be anything more before the end of the month in popular shortly a monograph
MESSRS. KEGAN PAUL & Co. are issuing
than a popular chronicle of ovents, written
monograph entitled 'Mrs.
for the use of Liberal politicians.
book form.
Humphry Ward : her Work and Influ.
Machon (Arthur), HIEROGLYPHICS, A NOTE
After
The lectures that Mr. Frank Harris ence,' by Mr. J. Stuart Walters.
UPON ECSTASY IN LITERATURE, 2/6 net. announced at Claridge's Hotel this month
a résumé of the political, social, and
Secker
A new edition of a remarkable book. Mr. illness and enforced absence abroad.
are unavoidably postponed, owing to his religious conditions in England during
the early part of the latter half of the
Machen is well versed in literature, and his
nineteenth century- Robert Elsmere'
criticism is stored with suggestivo, luminous
analogies and discoveries. One by no means
PROF. J. NORMAN COLLIE will give was published in 1888—the writer traces
agreos with him in many of his contentions,
a lecture illustrated by lantern-slides the influence of Mrs. Humphry Ward's
but one always reads him with interest. We at University College, London, on Friday, work on modern life and thought,
reviewed the book at length in The Athenaeum June 28th, at 5. 30 P. M. , on · Explorations Finally, he sums up her views on religion,
of May 24th, 1902.
in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. ' The politics, social life, and woman.
6
LEOTURE
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rose to
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a
6
a
remarkable prize thus captured was He offers some striking word pictures
Sadi's warbler, one of a pair seen on May of the crowded hour, which more than
14th, 1908. This species, once, as all the compensates for all the manifold dis-
books tell us, a visitor to East Anglia, has comforts of cramped confinement in a
S.
been conspicuously absent from our shores vessel that rides out gales broadside to
for more than half a century. Its re- the waves, or the deafening explosions
logist appearance in a locality so far removed that serve as fog signals at every three
ation from its former haunts is singular in the minutes through the night. Here is part
vhose extreme. The little twites are so abundant of a description of a rush
as viewed
iated as to be “a veritable curse to the bird from the Eddystone :-
fasci-observer," for many of the more interest-
ere being visitors are absorbed and remain un-
“ Hosts of glittering objects, birds re-
itic," detected among their hordes. Mr. Eagle were fluttering in, or crossing at all angles,
splendent, as it were, in burnished gold,
a long Clarke's most important discoveries have, the brilliant revolving beams of light.
cre- of course, been already duly recorded else- Those which winged their way up the beams
He where, and so much interest was thereby towards the lantern were innumerable,
pren- aroused that it was found possible to and resembled streaks of approaching light
.
ritish subsidize a trustworthy native observer These either struck the glass, or recovering
ration trained by himself. În this way the themselves, passed out of the ray ere the
with author is able to supply a chronological simply crossed the rays were illumined for a
fatal focal point was reached. Those which
this account of the migratory movements moment only, and became mere spectres on
stood of an entire year, and work out their passing into the gloom beyond. Some of
ree to bearing on various important points, those that struck fell like stones from their
- lines especially with regard to birds of passage. violent contact with the glass ; while others
most A short visit to Sule Skerry (fying 22 glanced off more or less injured or stunned,
nes is miles N. E. of Cape Wrath) proved as
to perish miserably in the surf below.
ds of interesting from the fact of certain windows, in their wild efforts to reach the
Others, again, beat violently against the
seven unexpected absentees on the list of source of the all-fascinating light. Many
light- birds as for the presence of unusual of those that freed themselves from the
more visitors; these records, with the co- dazzling streams of light came in sharp
emote operation of the light - keepers, go contact with the copper dome of the tower,
• To back to 1899. _Sixteen days were de- making it resound like a drum, and then
cover- voted to the Flannan Islands, far out fell like flashes into the water below, fol-
Fair in the Atlantic, and were productive of lowed: slowly by a cloud of feathers, re-
sembling a miniature shower of golden
e has good results, remarkable migra- Aakes. Finally, above and below the madding
upon tion of Jack Snipe being perhaps the crowd in the illumined zone, great numbers
tween outstanding feature. A more prolonged of the migrants fitted around in all direc-
-, the stay was made at the still more remote, tions in the semi-darkness, and in almost
tartle but better-known St. Kilda. Much had weird contrast with the brilliant multitudes
able been previously observed and written gyrating in the adjacent vistas of light. "
about the bird life in summer, but little All the author's experiences go to prove
or nothing about the migratory move that a clear bright night is useless for
made
ments of other seasons. Mr. Eagle Clarke the observer in a lighthouse, and that
in our
had the satisfaction of adding no fewer everything depends on the presence of
2 were
isitors than forty-eight species to the avi-fauna moisture, not necessarily visible in the
these of St. Kilda, including one-the American form of rain or haze, the effect being an
egular pipit-new to Britain. Numbers of inter- added luminosity to the rays which then
er is a esting visitors from Northern Europe exercise an irresistible attraction to every
pecies
were observed, and many summer visitors migrant within range. Tests with a
to Iceland were among the birds of hygrometer went to prove the truth of
passage. A diary of observations is this contention. Moreover, it seems that
a given, with a complete list of birds. In red or green rays quite fail to allure,
ented, the latter a reference is made to Mr. when white rays would be fatal. In-
t cliffs Kearton, which seems to do him less than cidentally it is noticed that the passeres
ne in- justice. With regard to the common
are enormously in the majority as victims,
d tra- gull, only one of which came under the and the suggestion is made that these,
ber of author's notice, he writes :
"the most specialised of birds, are ren-
-ation.
“ Kearton ('With Nature and a Camera,' dered, by reason of their higher organisa-
Duches
p. 57) includes this species in the list of birds tion, more susceptible to the mysterious
culties he saw and identified in the islands, but influence of the light. ”
finds as the Kittiwake has no place in this list,
As was to be expected, much considera-
e been the inference is obvious. "
tion is devoted to weather influences.
letects It would indeed have been strange if Typical conditions are carefully worked
nger," the kittiwake, abundant as it is in this and given in the convenient form of a
closer group, had really escaped Mr. Kearton's series of weather charts, showing iso-
e
most notice, or merely been confounded with therms and isobars. Emigration at the
the common gull. As a matter of fact, Eddystone was found to be unaffected
Villiam though the name is omitted from the list by the direction of the wind, but its
Jack. referred to, a description of a colony is velocity made all the difference
, no
given a few pages further on, together movement being performed when it ex.
C. &
with a full-page illustration-probably ceeded twenty-eight miles an hour.
the first photograph of the birds published. An admirable map shows the chief
lccount
Mr. Eagle Clarke's experiences in the European routes of migration. It is not
in the
Ernst Eddystone Lighthouse and his month surprising to find that Mr. Eagle Clarke
Tice on the Kentish Knock Lightship, will does not accept some of Gätke's generally
erby. )
prove attractive to the average reader, discredited theories, especially as regards
us
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ing word pleten
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the manifold:
confinement 1
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áfening enlist
us at every this
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objects
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a burnished
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6
the amazing speed he would attribute to and others) is given of this bird's breeding
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migrants. With reference to the most habits. To illustrate its well-known tame-
puzzling of all the questions--How do ness, we are shown Mr. H. S. Gladstone's (Notice in those columns doos not precludo longe
review. )
The birds find their way? --he notices photograph of a male attempting to
some remarkable experiments carried out incubate (sic, p. 265) a chick held in the Barber (H. Vaughan), THE TUBERCULIN
by American ornithologists, and considers hand.
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The coloured plates are as excellent as The great disadvantage of the tuberculin
possession of some mysterious faculty ever, and it is almost invidious to select dispensaries is that every case, in whatever
of unconscious orientation, or in other
words a sense of direction. The migration any for special mention ; perhaps Mr. stage of the disease, receives varying
doses
of eight different species has been worked skua in the act of charging upon an
Seaby's pictures of the dotterel, the great of tuberculin. This wholesale treatment of
consumption by one specific remedy has been
out in detail
, and serves to illustrate the intruder, the stone curlew (Šir Thomas sanatoria or chest hospidals. This short
condemned by all physicians associated with
extraordinary complexity of the subject.
Browne's bird “ with a remarkable eye”), account of the work of a tuberculin dis-
The starling's movements are the most and the lapwing with her chicks take pensary cannot add to the reputation of
bewildering of all, and are summarized the palm. The whimbrel and the avocet, these institutions, as the data given are
conveniently ” under thirteen distinct which are figured respectively in the very incomplete. Tuberculin given in se
headings!
lected
company of grey-plover and turnstone,
no high
ago as 1898, after promising well, ended the letterpress.
A visit to the Isle of Ushant, so long have not yet ®made their appearance in temperature, and supplemented by other
,
unfortunately in a fiasco. It was in the
Dallas (H. A. ), THE TREND OF PSYCHICAL
Fashoda days, and the bird-watcher, being
Respecting the remains of dead lap-
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suspected of malignant designs, was per wings to be found at their breeding- This article, reprinted from a recent
sistently dogged by a myrmidon of the grounds, the Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain holds number of The Quest, is not distinguished
law. Å formal complaint only produced the sparrowhawk accountable ; we have, by relevance or logical sequence. The
argument loses itself in the details of “ cases,”
a hint not to be disregarded that imme- in one instance, known a sitting bird killed
and the trend of psychical research remains
by a fox when the nest was too near a
diate departure was advisable.
as mysterious as before.
There is, as we have indicated, much hedge. Allusion is made to the question
in this work to interest the general of extra“ scrapes” fashioned by lapwings Green (George H. ), NATURE STUDY NOTE-
BOOK, also A VISIT TO ST. ALBANS,
reader, to whom the frequent quotations and oystercatchers, and of the latter
6d. net.
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from the poets should be an added relish. Saxby is quoted as saying “ the male has
This comprehensive little history of St.
It is certain that to the serious student a fancy for constructing numerous others Albans, both interesting and well illustrated,
of bird migration the volumes are in while his mate is sitting. ” Our own
fulfils its purpose better than the ‘Nature
dispensable.
experience is that numerous such scrapes Study Note-Book' by the same author, in
may be found at least three weeks before which the attempt to mention too many
A section of_the third volume of the any, eggs are laid. It is interesting to branches of science has prevented him from
· British-Bird Book' is out, and con-
devoting sufficient space to any. The illus-
read of a Kentish plover's eggs laid on
trations in the Nature Note-Book are good
tains some of
seaweed. The present writer was once
the most interesting
on the whole, but, as many of the flowers are
studies of the series. Indeed, so admir-
escorted to a newly discovered nest by a
reduced, they would have been more valuable
ably have Mr. Kirkman and his coadjutors Dungeness native, who on the way dis- if the scale had always been supplied.
dealt with the domestic secrets of such
coursed of a curious trait he had observed Harper (Merritt w. ), THE TRAINING AND
recluses as the skuas, the phalaropes, the in two previous nests he had found,
BREAKING OF HORSES, 7/6 net.
stone curlew, the dotterel, the Kentish namely, a small amount of bleached sea-
New York, Macmillan Co.
plover, and the golden plover that it third nest. On investigation, however, a style
, this book should prove of considerable
weed. It was absent, he said, in this Written in a lucid and comprehensive
comes somewhat as a shock when it is to
borne in upon the reader that in more piece of whitish seaweed was found lying interest and value to trainers and owners of
than one case his author has been writing
half over one of the two eggs.
horses. It is well arranged, and the author
treats his subject scientifically. Not only
with little or no first-hand knowledge of
does he indieate the methods by which
the particular scenes he is describing. It The ‘Hand-List of British Birds,' com- horses should be trained for the work which
would be unreasonable, in view of the piled by Mr. Hartert in collaboration with they are intended to perform, but he also
immense range of the subject and the the joint editors of The British Birds points out the vices which may arise in
shortness of human life, to cavil at such a Magazine, will be warmly welcomed by
an animal in consequence of careless and
and
ignorant handling,
state of affairs, but it would be idle to all serious ornithologists. It aims at
suggests the
means by which they may be eradicated.
pretend that it does not constitute a evolving order out of chaos in the vexed The value of the book is enhanced by copious
deficiency where it exists.
question of nomenclature. For the first illustrations.
The stone curlew and the Kentish plover time each bird is assigned its correct Irving (R. J. ), The Six CARDINAL POINTS
are notable exceptions among those just scientific name in strict accordance with
AND AFTER : A NATIONAL MEDICAL
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(to whom the bulk of the Limicolæ Nomenclature. There must be no appeal
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have been assigned) gives us the benefit from the law of priority, however inappro-
If the author had confined his work to his
of his own intimate observations at close priate the original name may be, and indi- constructive ideas for a national medical
quarters. Fortunately, it is rarely any vidual preferences are of no account. It service, instead of endeavouring to prove
takes a pilgrimage to the remote haunts the long-needed uniformity may now be ism, his work would probably have appealed
but the competent observer who under- should not be too much to hope that that what he advocates has nothing in
common with his idea of present-day Social-
of our more exclusive birds, and the data attained, and that every museum in the to a larger public, and thereby achieved a
forthcoming are of a far more satis- kingdom will lose no time in falling into greater success.
factory nature so far as they go, than line and revising its labels. The syste- Ross (H. C. ), FURTHER RESEARCHES INTO
those concerning many better-known matic use of trinomials is clearly ex- INDUCED CELL - REPRODUCTION
species. Particularly good work has been pounded, and even unsightly tautonymy, CANCER : Vol. II. THE MCFADDEN
done quite recently in the study of the such as troglodytes troglodytes troglodytes RESEARCHES, 3/6
John Murray
red-necked phalaropes and the problems for our common wren, is now established. This present volume shows how previous
presented by the reversal of sexual adorn- The English name is a matter of less work with individual cells has been con-
ments and functions. Mr. Farren has moment and wider choice, though the firmed by experiments on animals. The
authors are now in a position to produce
unearthed from the . Fauna of the Ork- authors are known to hold good reasons " cell-prolification” and swellings resembling
neys' a remarkable quotation dating for their own selection. It is to be observed tumours in the living creatures by the action
back to 1804, wherein a surprisingly that they have no use for such old friends of chemical substances which induce in-
accurate account (unnoticed by Yarrell | as peewit, ringdove, and robin,
dividual cell-multiplication.
and in
ant more
23 of light
Fact being
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a
growth in the Cervidæ, illustrated by lantern: and predicates, and of the contradictories of
SOCIETIES.
slides.
these. It was argued, in detail, that this view
BRITISH ACADEMY. -June 5. -The Master of
Dr. H. Gadow read a paper on 'The One-sided of existential import (unlike those commonly
Petorhouse in the chair. --The Rev. Hastings
Reduction of Ovaries and Oviducts in the Amni. maintained) was consistent with the validity
Rashdall, read a paper on The Metaphysic of
ota, with Remarks on Mammalian Evolution. ' of all the main relations subsisting between
Br. F. H. Bradley. After a brief examination of Dr. F. E. Beddard gave an account of an asexual propositions—those of Immediate Inference and
* Appearance and Reality, the greatest thing since
tapeworm, obtained from the musquash (Fiber of Opposition. Finally, on this view the difficulty
Kan, according to Edward Caird, the paper dealt
zibethicus), showing a new form of asexual propa. in the logical doctrine of quantity, raised by the
with Mr. Bradley as an idealist who is not afraid gation, and also described a sexual worm which inconsistent meaning of
some,'' could be
or ashamed of idealism, and with various problems
he believed to be the mature form of the same eliminated. --The paper was followed by a dis-
as to the essence of reality. The thesis-that tapeworm ; and Dr. W. Nicoll continued the cussion.
reality cannot be known or thought—is defended
discussion.
by Mr. Bradley by an elaborate attempt to show
Dr. R. Broom presented a paper based on some
that all the categories of our thought imply inco-
new Fossil Reptiles from the Permian and Triassic HELLENIO. —June 4. -Profs. Percy and Ernest
herences or contradictions, inconsistencies which
Beds of South Africa ; and Prof. S. J. Hickson Gardner communicated papers on "The recently
we cannot suppose to belong to reality. To Dr. on the Hydrocoralline genus Errina.
discovered Portions of the Ludovisi Throne. '
Rashdall there seems to be in Mr. Bradley's system
Prof. Percy Gardner, in his introductory remarks,
a fundamental and irreconcilable contradiction
dwelt on the interest aroused by the Boston
between three sharply opposed points of view. LINNEAN. -June 6. -Prof. E. B. Poulton, reliefs, which had been the subject of many papers,
These may be conveniently described as (1) President, in the chair. - Dr. W. J. Dakin, Dr. notably of one by Prof. Studniczka in the Jahr
Idealism, (2) Spinozism, and (3) Phenoininalism.
Annie Porter, Prof. A. Meek, and Mr. W. E. Balston
buch for 1911. The Ludovisi reliefs were regarded
These three aspects were fully discussed in the were adınitted Fellows. Mr. W. H. Daun, the
as the back and sides of a throne, and had been
paper.
Rev. J S. Müller, Mr. E. P. Phillips, and Mrs.
described by Prof. Petersen, who interpreted the
E. M. Reid were elected Fellows. " Prof. J. S.
centre relief as representing the Birth of Aphro-
ROYAL. -June 6. -Sir Archibald Geikie, Presi- Gardiner, Mr. H. W. Monckton, Miss E. R.
dite, and the figures on the panels as typifying
dent, in the chair. -The Croonian Lecture was Saunders, and Dr. D. H. Scott were appointed
Sacred and Profane Love. The Boston reliefs
delivered by Dr. Keith Lucas on 'The Process of Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year.
showed a general correspondence with the other
Excitation in Nerve and Muscle. Attention Prof. A. Meek introduced his paper, ‘On the set, though there were some differences in scale
has lately been drawn to the slow progress made Development of the Cod, Gadus morrhua. ' Mr.
and style. Two problems confronted the student :
by physiologists in understanding the physico- C. Hedley explained his views on the ‘Palæo- one of reconstruction, the other of interpretation,
chemical nature of the nervous impulse. In the geographical relations of Antarctica,' He stated Did the reliefs belong to two thrones, or to a
present lecture an atteinpt is made to examine that advocates of the Antarctic hypothesis sarcophagus, or to an altar ? Did they represent
one aspect of the experimental knowledge which consider that an austral fauna and flora were
Eros weighing out destinies of childbirth to two
must precede the formulation of any hypothesis dispersed from the polar continent to various
women, or the dispute of Aphrodite and Perse-
of this nature. The first problem is to analyze land areas of the southern hemisphere ; that this phone for the possession of Adonis ? The latter
by experiment the relation between each of the assemblage included not only frigid, but also
was Studniczka's interpretation, and though the
phenomena observed in an excited nerve temperate, subtropical, and even tropical con-
myth, as given by Apollodorus (iii. 185), refers
muscle, and that central disturbance which stituents; that its dispersal occurred not from
to the childhood of Adonis, while the reliefs
constitutes the nervous impulse.
a single place or time, but from an area oscillating
apparently refer to his maturity, this interpreta-
This analysis determines what phenomena between insular and continental conditions with tion; while presenting some difficulties, was the
must be taken into account in any hypothesis varying northward prolongations and repeated
most satisfactory that had yet been propounded.
of the nervous impulse. It reveals the fact that over successive interglacial periods. The change
The side figures represent a nurse and a boy with
work on the propagation of the disturbance in required of climate and of ocean depths appeared
a lyre. The speaker then drew comparisons
nerve and muscle has been hampered by the want to some to be an insuperable objection to this between the style of the two sets of reliefs and
of a method by which a quantitative measure theory. Alternative explanations advanced to
that of other works of Greek art, from which he
of the disturbance might be obtained. It shows account for the community of life in distant
concluded that they were apparently the work
also that there can be distinguished from the southern lands without involving trans-polar
of the Attic School of about 470 B. c. Prof.
propagated disturbance preliminary local passage are: (1) That such forms are survivors Ernest Gardner considered that the impression
excitatory change, which is produced by an of a former universal distribution ; (2) that they produced by the new portions of the Ludovisi
exciting agent at the seat of stimulation, and are fugitives from a common home in the north ; Throne was far from satisfactory. The portion
constitutes the necessary condition for starting (3) that they have been scattered abroad by birds, previously known was one of the most beautiful,
the propagated disturbance.
winds, or currents ; (4) that they radiated from simple, and harmonious products of transitional
By the recognition of the local excitatory process a Mesozoic trans-Pacific continent. As an original
art. The new portions not only differed from it con-
there is opened a fresh possible line of advance contribution to the subject it is now suggested
siderably in style, but also showed inconsistencies
in the direction of determining what the nature that a link between Antarctica and Tasmania
in themselves, and were to a great extent made
of the propagated disturbance may be. The in the latest extension of the Southern continent
up of figures derived from various sources, and
former constitutes the condition which initiates existed during the last warm phase and trans- not harmonizing well with one another. They
the latter, and a knowledge of the physico-mitted to Australasia a fauna and flora of South could not, therefore, come from the same artist,
chemical nature of the local change may therefore American origin; that Antarctica then sup- or even from the same school. On the other hand,
form an important step towards formulating an ported a subtropical vegetation on the coast the correspondence in shape and external details
hypothesis of the nature of the disturbance which and an alpine flora on the mountains of the in- seemed to preclude their being an independent
is the basis of propagation.
terior; that during the period of refrigeration work. Three possible explanations seemed open :
Dr. H. L. Duke read a paper on. Antelope as a the fauna and flora were gradually expelled to that the new portions were made to correspond
Reservoir for_Trypanosoma gambiense. '-Sir D.
an inn. The unsuccessful suitor, Mar- Otterstoun (William), JEAN CAMERON, 6/
between three different views of the origin
maduke Slack, is the better man of the
Simpkin & Marshall
two, and more alive than any one else in This book, in the outward form of a novel, of Art; and the advice is somewhat imprac-
the book. One of the lost opportunities
is in its essence a tract devoid of the student very little in teaching & normal
Froebelian optimism helps the
is the sketch of a popular novelist, numerous qualities that matter, in fiction. It has no fourth form to write a neat essay.
excerpts of whose works make one wonder character drawing, literary beauty, or con:
how he ever came to be popular, even with a structive skill to commend it. As a polemical Grahame-White (Claude) and Harper (Harry),
public which lacks discrimination.
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The efforts at wit in this book-which is to ridicule. A sort of sublimated Christian air, much of which has no longer any lesson
presumably intended to be humorous-- Science is preached, and the institution of for the future, though it is instruotive to
leave us unmoved.
marriage is denounced as corrupting. note that the marked improvement in the
seems
are
ON
THE
some
net.
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flying of 1910 over that of the previous year
proceeds from the sale of tickots for the
was due to experience and dexterity, since the
lecture will be devoted to the St. Chris.
machines wore substantially identical. To
Literary Gossip. topher's Working Boys' Club.
encourage aeroplane manufacture for mili-
tant purposes is the aim of the book.
THE first of two volumes of the Riccardi
There are many signs of carelessness and
PROF. WILLIAM JAMES's letters are Press · Virgil,' uniform with the 'Horace'
repetition, though the
ground is well covered.
There is, of course, little in the way of ac- being collected for biographical purposes, and Catullus,' will be published imme-
complishment to be recorded, for the isolated and those who have any of them can diately, to be followed very shortly by
instance of Tripoli is as yet the only practical render assistance that will be highly the second volume. The text is that of
test made under service conditions, where appreciated by addressing Mr. Henry Henry Nettleship, edited by Prof. J. P.
the value of the aeroplane for scouting, James, Jun. , 95, Irving Street, Cambridge, Postgate. The Riccardi Press has re-
which was already self-evident, was amply Mass. Casual or brief letters may have ceived the commission to print a special
demonstrated.
leaving
Much of the book is mere conjecture, and, the person preserving them; and news book”; this will be in one volume, and
an interest or importance not apparent to edition as the Eton College
Grahame-White's authority, so far as the of the whereabouts of any of James's will not be for sale.
manipulation of an aeroplane is concerned, letters will be gratefully received.
MESSRS. CONSTABLE & Co. announce
we do not feel constrained always to follow
him where its military possibilities are in
LADY HOOKER will be grateful if any for early publication Through the
question, and we think he allows his evident of her friends who possess letters written Heart of Africa,' an account of a journey
prejudice against “gas-bags" to carry him by her late husband will kindly lend them on bicycles and on foot from Northern
too far in his condemnation of dirigible to her for the purposes of a biography Rhodesia, past the Great Lakes to Egypt,
balloons, which can undoubtedly accomplish which Messrs. Smith & Elder will publish. undertaken in 1910, by Mr. Frank H.
some services unattainable by the heavier. They should be forwarded to her address Melland, and Mr. Edward H. Cholmeley,
The book is handsomely got up, but oddly - The Camp, Sunningdale—and will be fully illustrated from photographs.
illustrated
A view, for instance, of the carefully returned.
They are also publishing 'In South
Breguet biplane should certainly have had
the preference over the unnecessary portrait
We understand that a knighthood has | Central Africa,' some of the experiences
of one of the authors. We note the absence been conferred on Mr. George Thompson and journeys of a mining engineer during
of an index, without which a book of this sort, Hutchinson, head of the well-known firm a stay of six years in that country, by
bristling with names of men and machines, is of Hutchinson & Co. , and chairman of Mr. J. M. Moubray, illustrated with a map
almost useless for purposes of reference. the old-established house of Hurst & and photographs.
Japan Society, London, TRANSACTIONS AND Blackett. As this appears to be a special THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS is
PROCEEDINGS, Vol. IX. , 1910–11, 5/ recognition of his services as a publisher, about to publish a study by Dr. H. P.
Frowde we congratulate him on attaining an Cholmeley of John of Gaddesden, who
Jones (Harry), LIBERALISM AND THE HOUSE honour which is seldom associated with
was the first English Court physician, and
OF LORDS: THE STORY OF THE VETO | the world of books and letters.
BATTLE, 1832–1911.
of his chief work, known as the 'Rosa
Methuen
A detailed account of the Parliamentary M. MOREL-FATIO has communicated Anglica. ' The Rosa,' written in 1314,
struggle between the Lords and Commons to the Académie des Inscriptions a letter,
was first printed in 1492, and is mentioned
is a useful addition to modern political hitherto
unpublished, of Margaret of York; by Chaucer. John of Gaddesden was
1832 up to the passage of the Parliament sister of Edward IV. , recommending the graduate of Oxford in arts, medicine,
Act the various occasions of conflict between impostor Perkin Warbeck to the notice and theology; he died in 1361, and is
the two chambers and the gradual develop- of Queen Isabella of Castile. It was not supposed to have been born about 1280.
ment of impatient indignation on the part known before that Margaret was concerned
G. P. PUTNAM'S Sons have in prepara-
of the Liberal party at the continued in the plot to pass off Perkin Warbeck tion English editions of Ellen Key's
obstruction of their legislation. The author as one of the Princes murdered in the volumes The Woman Movement' and
is able to give an account of the culminating Tower by order of Richard III. ,
which
stages from the point of view of an eye- was favoured by several crowned heads, original Swedish. Later they will include,
' Rahel Varnhagen, translated from the
in the drama are sketched with considerable including the #mperor Maximilian and in the "Ellen Key " Series, the Critical
skill
. In depicting the more popular figures, King James of Scotland.
and Biographical Study of Ellen Key,' by
and estimating the importance of the parts
they played, he does not forget to pay a
А
The Decline of
Louise Nystrom-Hamilton, translated by
well-deserved tribute to one statesman with Rhetoric will be delivered at East Mrs. J. E. de Fries.
whom the advertisement of public renown London College by Mr. Hilaire_Belloc MESSRS. SHERRATT & HUGHES are pub-
counts for very little. Lord Morley's skilful (Head of the Department of English lishing this month
piloting of the Parliament Bill in the face Literature at the College) on Monday, Politician, 1750–1912,' by Gerald Berkeley
The Manchester
of a passionately hostile opposition of peers the 17th inst. , at 6. 30 P. M. Admission Hertz, an account of the political thought
was the central episode in the concluding
phase. He led the House," says Mr. will be free.
of Manchester since the development of
Jones, " with superb ability," and
the full height of a great responsibility. ".
THE lecture on How to use the British the cotton trade first made it an important
centre. It examines the rise and fall of
The author might well have extended his Museum Reading Room,' delivered on
horizon beyond the walls of Westminster, and several occasions during 1911-12 at the the Manchester School, and gives a pic-
devoted a chapter to the wider and more Museum by Mr. R. A. Peddie, has now
ture of the forces that have moulded
fundamental significance of the contest. been revised and enlarged for publication, local opinion in the past and govern it
But this aspect of the problem is perhaps and will be issued by Messrs. Grafton & | to-day.
too far-reaching to be included in a volume Co. , 69, Great Russell Street, W. C. ,
which does not pretend to be anything more before the end of the month in popular shortly a monograph
MESSRS. KEGAN PAUL & Co. are issuing
than a popular chronicle of ovents, written
monograph entitled 'Mrs.
for the use of Liberal politicians.
book form.
Humphry Ward : her Work and Influ.
Machon (Arthur), HIEROGLYPHICS, A NOTE
After
The lectures that Mr. Frank Harris ence,' by Mr. J. Stuart Walters.
UPON ECSTASY IN LITERATURE, 2/6 net. announced at Claridge's Hotel this month
a résumé of the political, social, and
Secker
A new edition of a remarkable book. Mr. illness and enforced absence abroad.
are unavoidably postponed, owing to his religious conditions in England during
the early part of the latter half of the
Machen is well versed in literature, and his
nineteenth century- Robert Elsmere'
criticism is stored with suggestivo, luminous
analogies and discoveries. One by no means
PROF. J. NORMAN COLLIE will give was published in 1888—the writer traces
agreos with him in many of his contentions,
a lecture illustrated by lantern-slides the influence of Mrs. Humphry Ward's
but one always reads him with interest. We at University College, London, on Friday, work on modern life and thought,
reviewed the book at length in The Athenaeum June 28th, at 5. 30 P. M. , on · Explorations Finally, he sums up her views on religion,
of May 24th, 1902.
in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. ' The politics, social life, and woman.
6
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a
6
a
remarkable prize thus captured was He offers some striking word pictures
Sadi's warbler, one of a pair seen on May of the crowded hour, which more than
14th, 1908. This species, once, as all the compensates for all the manifold dis-
books tell us, a visitor to East Anglia, has comforts of cramped confinement in a
S.
been conspicuously absent from our shores vessel that rides out gales broadside to
for more than half a century. Its re- the waves, or the deafening explosions
logist appearance in a locality so far removed that serve as fog signals at every three
ation from its former haunts is singular in the minutes through the night. Here is part
vhose extreme. The little twites are so abundant of a description of a rush
as viewed
iated as to be “a veritable curse to the bird from the Eddystone :-
fasci-observer," for many of the more interest-
ere being visitors are absorbed and remain un-
“ Hosts of glittering objects, birds re-
itic," detected among their hordes. Mr. Eagle were fluttering in, or crossing at all angles,
splendent, as it were, in burnished gold,
a long Clarke's most important discoveries have, the brilliant revolving beams of light.
cre- of course, been already duly recorded else- Those which winged their way up the beams
He where, and so much interest was thereby towards the lantern were innumerable,
pren- aroused that it was found possible to and resembled streaks of approaching light
.
ritish subsidize a trustworthy native observer These either struck the glass, or recovering
ration trained by himself. În this way the themselves, passed out of the ray ere the
with author is able to supply a chronological simply crossed the rays were illumined for a
fatal focal point was reached. Those which
this account of the migratory movements moment only, and became mere spectres on
stood of an entire year, and work out their passing into the gloom beyond. Some of
ree to bearing on various important points, those that struck fell like stones from their
- lines especially with regard to birds of passage. violent contact with the glass ; while others
most A short visit to Sule Skerry (fying 22 glanced off more or less injured or stunned,
nes is miles N. E. of Cape Wrath) proved as
to perish miserably in the surf below.
ds of interesting from the fact of certain windows, in their wild efforts to reach the
Others, again, beat violently against the
seven unexpected absentees on the list of source of the all-fascinating light. Many
light- birds as for the presence of unusual of those that freed themselves from the
more visitors; these records, with the co- dazzling streams of light came in sharp
emote operation of the light - keepers, go contact with the copper dome of the tower,
• To back to 1899. _Sixteen days were de- making it resound like a drum, and then
cover- voted to the Flannan Islands, far out fell like flashes into the water below, fol-
Fair in the Atlantic, and were productive of lowed: slowly by a cloud of feathers, re-
sembling a miniature shower of golden
e has good results, remarkable migra- Aakes. Finally, above and below the madding
upon tion of Jack Snipe being perhaps the crowd in the illumined zone, great numbers
tween outstanding feature. A more prolonged of the migrants fitted around in all direc-
-, the stay was made at the still more remote, tions in the semi-darkness, and in almost
tartle but better-known St. Kilda. Much had weird contrast with the brilliant multitudes
able been previously observed and written gyrating in the adjacent vistas of light. "
about the bird life in summer, but little All the author's experiences go to prove
or nothing about the migratory move that a clear bright night is useless for
made
ments of other seasons. Mr. Eagle Clarke the observer in a lighthouse, and that
in our
had the satisfaction of adding no fewer everything depends on the presence of
2 were
isitors than forty-eight species to the avi-fauna moisture, not necessarily visible in the
these of St. Kilda, including one-the American form of rain or haze, the effect being an
egular pipit-new to Britain. Numbers of inter- added luminosity to the rays which then
er is a esting visitors from Northern Europe exercise an irresistible attraction to every
pecies
were observed, and many summer visitors migrant within range. Tests with a
to Iceland were among the birds of hygrometer went to prove the truth of
passage. A diary of observations is this contention. Moreover, it seems that
a given, with a complete list of birds. In red or green rays quite fail to allure,
ented, the latter a reference is made to Mr. when white rays would be fatal. In-
t cliffs Kearton, which seems to do him less than cidentally it is noticed that the passeres
ne in- justice. With regard to the common
are enormously in the majority as victims,
d tra- gull, only one of which came under the and the suggestion is made that these,
ber of author's notice, he writes :
"the most specialised of birds, are ren-
-ation.
“ Kearton ('With Nature and a Camera,' dered, by reason of their higher organisa-
Duches
p. 57) includes this species in the list of birds tion, more susceptible to the mysterious
culties he saw and identified in the islands, but influence of the light. ”
finds as the Kittiwake has no place in this list,
As was to be expected, much considera-
e been the inference is obvious. "
tion is devoted to weather influences.
letects It would indeed have been strange if Typical conditions are carefully worked
nger," the kittiwake, abundant as it is in this and given in the convenient form of a
closer group, had really escaped Mr. Kearton's series of weather charts, showing iso-
e
most notice, or merely been confounded with therms and isobars. Emigration at the
the common gull. As a matter of fact, Eddystone was found to be unaffected
Villiam though the name is omitted from the list by the direction of the wind, but its
Jack. referred to, a description of a colony is velocity made all the difference
, no
given a few pages further on, together movement being performed when it ex.
C. &
with a full-page illustration-probably ceeded twenty-eight miles an hour.
the first photograph of the birds published. An admirable map shows the chief
lccount
Mr. Eagle Clarke's experiences in the European routes of migration. It is not
in the
Ernst Eddystone Lighthouse and his month surprising to find that Mr. Eagle Clarke
Tice on the Kentish Knock Lightship, will does not accept some of Gätke's generally
erby. )
prove attractive to the average reader, discredited theories, especially as regards
us
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6
the amazing speed he would attribute to and others) is given of this bird's breeding
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The birds find their way? --he notices photograph of a male attempting to
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doses
of eight different species has been worked skua in the act of charging upon an
Seaby's pictures of the dotterel, the great of tuberculin. This wholesale treatment of
consumption by one specific remedy has been
out in detail
, and serves to illustrate the intruder, the stone curlew (Šir Thomas sanatoria or chest hospidals. This short
condemned by all physicians associated with
extraordinary complexity of the subject.
Browne's bird “ with a remarkable eye”), account of the work of a tuberculin dis-
The starling's movements are the most and the lapwing with her chicks take pensary cannot add to the reputation of
bewildering of all, and are summarized the palm. The whimbrel and the avocet, these institutions, as the data given are
conveniently ” under thirteen distinct which are figured respectively in the very incomplete. Tuberculin given in se
headings!
lected
company of grey-plover and turnstone,
no high
ago as 1898, after promising well, ended the letterpress.
A visit to the Isle of Ushant, so long have not yet ®made their appearance in temperature, and supplemented by other
,
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law. Å formal complaint only produced the sparrowhawk accountable ; we have, by relevance or logical sequence. The
argument loses itself in the details of “ cases,”
a hint not to be disregarded that imme- in one instance, known a sitting bird killed
and the trend of psychical research remains
by a fox when the nest was too near a
diate departure was advisable.
as mysterious as before.
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This comprehensive little history of St.
It is certain that to the serious student a fancy for constructing numerous others Albans, both interesting and well illustrated,
of bird migration the volumes are in while his mate is sitting. ” Our own
fulfils its purpose better than the ‘Nature
dispensable.
experience is that numerous such scrapes Study Note-Book' by the same author, in
may be found at least three weeks before which the attempt to mention too many
A section of_the third volume of the any, eggs are laid. It is interesting to branches of science has prevented him from
· British-Bird Book' is out, and con-
devoting sufficient space to any. The illus-
read of a Kentish plover's eggs laid on
trations in the Nature Note-Book are good
tains some of
seaweed. The present writer was once
the most interesting
on the whole, but, as many of the flowers are
studies of the series. Indeed, so admir-
escorted to a newly discovered nest by a
reduced, they would have been more valuable
ably have Mr. Kirkman and his coadjutors Dungeness native, who on the way dis- if the scale had always been supplied.
dealt with the domestic secrets of such
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weed. It was absent, he said, in this Written in a lucid and comprehensive
comes somewhat as a shock when it is to
borne in upon the reader that in more piece of whitish seaweed was found lying interest and value to trainers and owners of
than one case his author has been writing
half over one of the two eggs.
horses. It is well arranged, and the author
treats his subject scientifically. Not only
with little or no first-hand knowledge of
does he indieate the methods by which
the particular scenes he is describing. It The ‘Hand-List of British Birds,' com- horses should be trained for the work which
would be unreasonable, in view of the piled by Mr. Hartert in collaboration with they are intended to perform, but he also
immense range of the subject and the the joint editors of The British Birds points out the vices which may arise in
shortness of human life, to cavil at such a Magazine, will be warmly welcomed by
an animal in consequence of careless and
and
ignorant handling,
state of affairs, but it would be idle to all serious ornithologists. It aims at
suggests the
means by which they may be eradicated.
pretend that it does not constitute a evolving order out of chaos in the vexed The value of the book is enhanced by copious
deficiency where it exists.
question of nomenclature. For the first illustrations.
The stone curlew and the Kentish plover time each bird is assigned its correct Irving (R. J. ), The Six CARDINAL POINTS
are notable exceptions among those just scientific name in strict accordance with
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of his own intimate observations at close priate the original name may be, and indi- constructive ideas for a national medical
quarters. Fortunately, it is rarely any vidual preferences are of no account. It service, instead of endeavouring to prove
takes a pilgrimage to the remote haunts the long-needed uniformity may now be ism, his work would probably have appealed
but the competent observer who under- should not be too much to hope that that what he advocates has nothing in
common with his idea of present-day Social-
of our more exclusive birds, and the data attained, and that every museum in the to a larger public, and thereby achieved a
forthcoming are of a far more satis- kingdom will lose no time in falling into greater success.
factory nature so far as they go, than line and revising its labels. The syste- Ross (H. C. ), FURTHER RESEARCHES INTO
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done quite recently in the study of the such as troglodytes troglodytes troglodytes RESEARCHES, 3/6
John Murray
red-necked phalaropes and the problems for our common wren, is now established. This present volume shows how previous
presented by the reversal of sexual adorn- The English name is a matter of less work with individual cells has been con-
ments and functions. Mr. Farren has moment and wider choice, though the firmed by experiments on animals. The
authors are now in a position to produce
unearthed from the . Fauna of the Ork- authors are known to hold good reasons " cell-prolification” and swellings resembling
neys' a remarkable quotation dating for their own selection. It is to be observed tumours in the living creatures by the action
back to 1804, wherein a surprisingly that they have no use for such old friends of chemical substances which induce in-
accurate account (unnoticed by Yarrell | as peewit, ringdove, and robin,
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No. 4416, JUNE 15, 1912
THE ATHENÆUM
or
a
growth in the Cervidæ, illustrated by lantern: and predicates, and of the contradictories of
SOCIETIES.
slides.
these. It was argued, in detail, that this view
BRITISH ACADEMY. -June 5. -The Master of
Dr. H. Gadow read a paper on 'The One-sided of existential import (unlike those commonly
Petorhouse in the chair. --The Rev. Hastings
Reduction of Ovaries and Oviducts in the Amni. maintained) was consistent with the validity
Rashdall, read a paper on The Metaphysic of
ota, with Remarks on Mammalian Evolution. ' of all the main relations subsisting between
Br. F. H. Bradley. After a brief examination of Dr. F. E. Beddard gave an account of an asexual propositions—those of Immediate Inference and
* Appearance and Reality, the greatest thing since
tapeworm, obtained from the musquash (Fiber of Opposition. Finally, on this view the difficulty
Kan, according to Edward Caird, the paper dealt
zibethicus), showing a new form of asexual propa. in the logical doctrine of quantity, raised by the
with Mr. Bradley as an idealist who is not afraid gation, and also described a sexual worm which inconsistent meaning of
some,'' could be
or ashamed of idealism, and with various problems
he believed to be the mature form of the same eliminated. --The paper was followed by a dis-
as to the essence of reality. The thesis-that tapeworm ; and Dr. W. Nicoll continued the cussion.
reality cannot be known or thought—is defended
discussion.
by Mr. Bradley by an elaborate attempt to show
Dr. R. Broom presented a paper based on some
that all the categories of our thought imply inco-
new Fossil Reptiles from the Permian and Triassic HELLENIO. —June 4. -Profs. Percy and Ernest
herences or contradictions, inconsistencies which
Beds of South Africa ; and Prof. S. J. Hickson Gardner communicated papers on "The recently
we cannot suppose to belong to reality. To Dr. on the Hydrocoralline genus Errina.
discovered Portions of the Ludovisi Throne. '
Rashdall there seems to be in Mr. Bradley's system
Prof. Percy Gardner, in his introductory remarks,
a fundamental and irreconcilable contradiction
dwelt on the interest aroused by the Boston
between three sharply opposed points of view. LINNEAN. -June 6. -Prof. E. B. Poulton, reliefs, which had been the subject of many papers,
These may be conveniently described as (1) President, in the chair. - Dr. W. J. Dakin, Dr. notably of one by Prof. Studniczka in the Jahr
Idealism, (2) Spinozism, and (3) Phenoininalism.
Annie Porter, Prof. A. Meek, and Mr. W. E. Balston
buch for 1911. The Ludovisi reliefs were regarded
These three aspects were fully discussed in the were adınitted Fellows. Mr. W. H. Daun, the
as the back and sides of a throne, and had been
paper.
Rev. J S. Müller, Mr. E. P. Phillips, and Mrs.
described by Prof. Petersen, who interpreted the
E. M. Reid were elected Fellows. " Prof. J. S.
centre relief as representing the Birth of Aphro-
ROYAL. -June 6. -Sir Archibald Geikie, Presi- Gardiner, Mr. H. W. Monckton, Miss E. R.
dite, and the figures on the panels as typifying
dent, in the chair. -The Croonian Lecture was Saunders, and Dr. D. H. Scott were appointed
Sacred and Profane Love. The Boston reliefs
delivered by Dr. Keith Lucas on 'The Process of Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year.
showed a general correspondence with the other
Excitation in Nerve and Muscle. Attention Prof. A. Meek introduced his paper, ‘On the set, though there were some differences in scale
has lately been drawn to the slow progress made Development of the Cod, Gadus morrhua. ' Mr.
and style. Two problems confronted the student :
by physiologists in understanding the physico- C. Hedley explained his views on the ‘Palæo- one of reconstruction, the other of interpretation,
chemical nature of the nervous impulse. In the geographical relations of Antarctica,' He stated Did the reliefs belong to two thrones, or to a
present lecture an atteinpt is made to examine that advocates of the Antarctic hypothesis sarcophagus, or to an altar ? Did they represent
one aspect of the experimental knowledge which consider that an austral fauna and flora were
Eros weighing out destinies of childbirth to two
must precede the formulation of any hypothesis dispersed from the polar continent to various
women, or the dispute of Aphrodite and Perse-
of this nature. The first problem is to analyze land areas of the southern hemisphere ; that this phone for the possession of Adonis ? The latter
by experiment the relation between each of the assemblage included not only frigid, but also
was Studniczka's interpretation, and though the
phenomena observed in an excited nerve temperate, subtropical, and even tropical con-
myth, as given by Apollodorus (iii. 185), refers
muscle, and that central disturbance which stituents; that its dispersal occurred not from
to the childhood of Adonis, while the reliefs
constitutes the nervous impulse.
a single place or time, but from an area oscillating
apparently refer to his maturity, this interpreta-
This analysis determines what phenomena between insular and continental conditions with tion; while presenting some difficulties, was the
must be taken into account in any hypothesis varying northward prolongations and repeated
most satisfactory that had yet been propounded.
of the nervous impulse. It reveals the fact that over successive interglacial periods. The change
The side figures represent a nurse and a boy with
work on the propagation of the disturbance in required of climate and of ocean depths appeared
a lyre. The speaker then drew comparisons
nerve and muscle has been hampered by the want to some to be an insuperable objection to this between the style of the two sets of reliefs and
of a method by which a quantitative measure theory. Alternative explanations advanced to
that of other works of Greek art, from which he
of the disturbance might be obtained. It shows account for the community of life in distant
concluded that they were apparently the work
also that there can be distinguished from the southern lands without involving trans-polar
of the Attic School of about 470 B. c. Prof.
propagated disturbance preliminary local passage are: (1) That such forms are survivors Ernest Gardner considered that the impression
excitatory change, which is produced by an of a former universal distribution ; (2) that they produced by the new portions of the Ludovisi
exciting agent at the seat of stimulation, and are fugitives from a common home in the north ; Throne was far from satisfactory. The portion
constitutes the necessary condition for starting (3) that they have been scattered abroad by birds, previously known was one of the most beautiful,
the propagated disturbance.
winds, or currents ; (4) that they radiated from simple, and harmonious products of transitional
By the recognition of the local excitatory process a Mesozoic trans-Pacific continent. As an original
art. The new portions not only differed from it con-
there is opened a fresh possible line of advance contribution to the subject it is now suggested
siderably in style, but also showed inconsistencies
in the direction of determining what the nature that a link between Antarctica and Tasmania
in themselves, and were to a great extent made
of the propagated disturbance may be. The in the latest extension of the Southern continent
up of figures derived from various sources, and
former constitutes the condition which initiates existed during the last warm phase and trans- not harmonizing well with one another. They
the latter, and a knowledge of the physico-mitted to Australasia a fauna and flora of South could not, therefore, come from the same artist,
chemical nature of the local change may therefore American origin; that Antarctica then sup- or even from the same school. On the other hand,
form an important step towards formulating an ported a subtropical vegetation on the coast the correspondence in shape and external details
hypothesis of the nature of the disturbance which and an alpine flora on the mountains of the in- seemed to preclude their being an independent
is the basis of propagation.
terior; that during the period of refrigeration work. Three possible explanations seemed open :
Dr. H. L. Duke read a paper on. Antelope as a the fauna and flora were gradually expelled to that the new portions were made to correspond
Reservoir for_Trypanosoma gambiense. '-Sir D.
