Coli commune of Eschrich, the
Mesentericus
| happens, but the exact conclusions to be
fuscus of Flügge, the Enterococcus of Gröten.
fuscus of Flügge, the Enterococcus of Gröten.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
coli, B.
typhosus,
had arisen as to their treatment with the object which, even to the most musically gifted ethno-
Staphylococcus pyogenes aureus, and B. pyocyaneus.
of preservation, for although not painted, as was logist working " in the field," was strongly
at one time supposed, on the actual backs of the emphasized. The structure and details of other
Cultures in peptone water were inoculated to slips stalls of the Knights of the Garter, but on separate songs were indicated by various lantern . slides
of glass, and after being allowed to dry in the air panels, their removal was impossible without in which (1) the music was reduced to our own
were transferred to test tubes from which the air increasing the damage already sustained. The
was exhausted by means of a motor pump, the
notation ; (2) the nature and frequency of the
St. Stephen subjects are of English origin, and various intervals employed were demonstrated,
vacuum being completed by Sir James Dewar's possibly painted for the place they occupy, the intervals being expressed in ratios of vibration
charcoal and liquid air apparatus; the use of though not in silu. They show indications of frequencies or in "cents," i. e. , hundredth parts
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in
of our tempered semitone ; and (3) the various
apparently great intestinal disturbance, and
scales deduced from the songs were shown.
Detailed descriptions were given of tho technique
the Subtilis proved fata) to growth. From
Science Gossip.
of analyzing phonographic records, and of the
these facts M. Cohendy draws the conclusion
graphic method introduced by Dr. Myers for
that an animal reared in a perfectly aseptic
recording “in the field " the occasionally baffling MM. PAPIN AND ROUILLY have invented atmosphere does not thereby become ultra-
rbythms, met with especially in the drum accom- a new and very ingenious aeroplane upon sensitive to the action of microbes; but
paniments to primitive music. The music of what they call the gyropter principle. that bacteria harmless to the normal
analyzed to show (1) the wide difference even
Instead of imitating the bird or insect, they animal are harmful to one reared under
between such very simple forms of music belong. have taken the seed-vessel of the sycamore abnormal conditions. The distinction is,
ing to two distant peoples ; (2) the different lines or plane tree for their model, and have perhaps, rather fine-drawn.
of musica! development traceable within different equipped their machine with one vast sail,
communities ; (3) the great importance, alike placed at an acute angle with the horizon
SIR J. J. THOMSON, whose work at the
for ethnology and musical history, of studying
the process of diffusion of the various styles of and rotating freely round the car, which is Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge is
music, and also of musical instruments, in regard suspended at some small distance from its familiar all over the world, has been ap.
to their form, their intervals, and their absolute lower end or point. Hence, if the motor pointed to the Order of Merit.
pitch.
stops working from any cause, it is said that
THE twentieth James Forrest Lecture
the car will descend on an even keel, the
METEOROLOGICAL. - March 20. -Dr. H. N.
will be delivered at the Institution of Civil
Dickson, President, in the chair. -Prof. Otto
automatic rotation of the sail, from the Engineers on Friday, April 19th, at 9 P. M. ,
Pettersson delivered a lecture on The Connec- joint effect of the pressure of the air and
Phenomena. ' He began by saying that the scopic equilibrium as
tion between Hydrographical and Meteorological the gravitational force, preserving the gyro- by Mr. H. R, Arnulph Mallock, his subject
the vegetable
being “Aerial Flight. '
Medieval Age was characterized by frequent model. The engine is also designed on a
violent climatic changes, which seem to have
MESSRS. WITHERBY & Co. are shortly
culminated in the thirteenth and fourteenth
new principle, and acts directly upon the publishing for Mr. F. W. Headley an illus-
centuries, when hot summers, accompanied by driving shaft by the emission of compressed trated book on "The Flight of Birds, a
droughts" (which nearly, dried up the rivers of air from orifices, in the same way as the subject which the author has long studied.
Europe), alternated with cold summers and hydraulic whirls now used for the sprinkling The book is designed to interest the aviator
excessive rainfall. In winter violent storm-
floods occurred which entirely remoulded the of lawns. Drawings of the apparatus were as well as the ornithologist.
coasts of the North Sea ; or frost set in so severely exhibited at the last meeting of the Académie
that the entire Baltic and sometimes even the des Sciences.
PROF. BACKLUND, Director of the Imperial
Kattegat and the Skagerak were frozen. The
Observatory at Pulkowa, Russia, whose
lecturer showed that such phenomena may be THE appearance of certain metals in
name is closely associated with Encke's
ascribed to alterations in the oceanic circulation animal tissues has long been studied, and the comet, to the study of which he has devoted
caused by the influence of the moon and the sun.
Experiments carried on during the last four years
presence of minute quantities of arsenic in
many years of assiduous labour, has recently
at Bornoe in Sweden have shown that the inflow the secretions of the thyroid gland has been
published some interesting speculations as
of the under-current from the North Sea into the noted. Prof. Henze has now discovered that to the periodic changes in brightness of a
Kattegat--which brings the herring shoals in the blood globules of Phallusia mamillata, puzzling nature which the comet undergoes.
winter to the Swedish coast—is oscillatory, the
an ascidian fairly common in the Mediter. It has been noticed that the comet is much
boundary surface of the deep water rising and
sinking from 50 to 80 ft
. about twice a month. ranean, give the characteristic reaction of brighter before than after its perihelion
The phenomenon is governed by the moon's the rare metal vanadium, which seems to be passage, and Prof. Backlund explains this
declination and proximity to the earth. From present in the form of vanadic acid. Van.
by supposing that the particles composing
astronomical data Prof. Pettersson concludes adium has been used of late years in the Encke's comet are not round, but flat par-
that the influence both of the sun and of the moon
manufacture of steel alloys, and seems to ticles oriented in parallel planes. So,
upon the waters of the ocean in winter about the
time of the solstice must have been greater 600
act here as a catalyser, no doubt playing when either the earth or the sun is in the
to 700 years ago than at the present time. some part in the physiological process of mean plane of the particles, there would
oxidation.
be a great loss of light, just as Saturn's ring
M. VAILLARD, Medical Inspector-General
vanishes when its plane passes through
either the earth or the sun.
of the French Army, has investigated the
Mox. Institute of Actuarles, 5. -'Notes on the Construction of
ielortalido Tablet R. Eldertohen dhe der Fipronil phenomena of the transmission of germs THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES in St. Peters-
Museum, 8. -English Modern Archi-
tecture,' Mr. B. Fletcher.
from one individual to another in epidemic burg has founded an institute for research
Society of Arts, 8. - Materials and Methods of Decorative
diseases, such as diphtheria, typhoid fever, in chemistry, physics, and mineralogy, which
Painting. ' Lecture II. , Mr. N. Heaton. (Cantor Lecture. )
Geograpbical: 8. 30. - Exploration in N. W. Mongolia and cerebro-spinal meningitis, and even the new is to be called the Lomonossov Institute,
Dzungaria,' Mr. D. Carruthers.
Turs. Royal Institution, 8. - Ancient Britain,' Lecture III, Dr. malady called acute poliomyelitis. He de- in honour of the distinguished Russian
Colonial Institute. 4-The Boundaries of British Guiana,' clares it to be proved, as the result of naturalist Michael Lomonossov, whose bi-
British Museum, 1. 30. – Later Byzantine Churches," Mr. B. experiments on animals, that individuals
centenary was celebrated in 1911.
can act as carriers of the germs of diseases
Society of Arts, 4. 30. – British North Borneo,' Mr. L Love-
without themselves suffering from them.
THE Nova, or temporary star, near 0
Faraday, 8. Dry Batteries : tho Relation between the
Incidence of the Discharge and the Relative Capacity of
This has, of course, long been known or
Geminorum (not n of the constellation, as
stated in the first announcement) appears
tributions to the Knowledger or Liquid Mistureom Parton: suspected in complaints like scarlet fever,
Klectrolysis in where the power of contagion survives the
to be fading. Possibly Mr. Enebo, the dis.
Liquefied Sulphur Dioxide,' Messrs. L. 8 Bagster and B. D.
Steele The Elimination of Potontial due to Liquid Con; patient's return to health, and in others like coverer, caught it at its moment of maximum
tact. ' Part II. , Mr. A. 0. Cumming; 'Vapour Pressure of
Concentrated Aqueous solutions, Mossrs. E. P. Perman and measles and perhaps mumps, where he seems
brilliancy, though it has happened—the case
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. -Discussion on The Main
to be capable of conveying infection during
being that of Nova Aurigæ (1892)—that a
Drainage of Glasgow, The Construction of the Glasgow the period of incubation. M. Vaillard now
star visible to the naked eye shone un.
Main-Drainage Works,' and 'Glasgow Main Drainage : tho
Mochanical Equipment of the Western Works and of the declares, however, that there are individuals
noticed in the heavens for nearly two
Kinning Park Pumping-Station Paper on The Works for
months.
the Pupply of Water to the City of Birmingham from Mid capable of acting as th3 carriers of harmful
The spectrum photographed at
, . .
WED. S ciety of Literature,
0. - The Best Poetry,'
Mr. T. 8. Moore.
bacteria, such as those causing cholera and
Greenwich with small dispersion shows
Geoloxical, S. , The Glaciation of the Black Combe District, diphtheria in its various forms, without ever
dark bands on the violet side of the bright
Cumberland, Mr. Bernard Smith;. 'The Older Palæozoic
Succession of the Duddon Estuary. Mr. J. F. N. Green. being them selves attacked by them. This,
hydrogen lines, which is an invariable cha-
Society of Arts, 8. -The Whaling Industry of To-day, Mr.
he says truly, complicates further the ques.
racteristic of the spectrum of bodies of this
THURS. Royal Institution, 3. -'Sexual Dimorphism in Butterflies,' Dr. tion of isolation for infectious and con-
class when first seen, and has often been
Chemical, 80. - Annual Meeting i Somo Stereochemical tagious diseases.
taken as indubitable evidence of motion and
Problems,' Prof. P. F. Frankland Presidential Address.
Royal. 430. -'A Confusion Test for Colour Blindness, Dr.
collision-possibly of a star with a nebula.
U. J. Burch ;, 'On
the Systematic
Position of the Spirochæts, M. MICHEL COHENDY is continuing at the
Mr. C. Dobell; 'The Influence of Selection and Assortatire
This view loses some credibility, because
Mating on the Ancestral and Fraternal Correlations of a Institut Pasteur the researches into the
Mendeliau Population,' Mr. K. C. Snow: The Human Elec-
the sameness of the relative positions of the
trocardiogram: a Preliminary Investigation
of Young Male action of bacteria lately noted in the dark and bright bands would require that
Adults, to form a Basis for Pathological Study, Messrs. T.
Athenæum. Chickens hatched and
Lewis and M. D. D. Gilder: and other Papers.
kept the star and the nebula should be moving
an atmosphere absolutely free from
Conductivity of Dielectrice when tested with Alteronting
in the same directions relative to the earth
Electric Curronts of Telephonic Frequency at Various Temn. microbes have been exposed by him to the in all the observed cases, which seems un.
peratures,' Dr. J. A. Fleming and Mr. G. B. Dyke.
English Goethe Society, 8. 2. -'Goethe's Faust, Dr. H. T.
action of bacteria which are not harmful to likely. Later observations of the spectrum
Society of Antiquaries, 8. 30.
the normal individual, among them being the show that it is already changing, as generally
Royal Institution, 8. Results of the Application of Positiro
Rays to the Stady of Chemical Problems,' Prot. str J. J.
Coli commune of Eschrich, the Mesentericus | happens, but the exact conclusions to be
fuscus of Flügge, the Enterococcus of Gröten.
Royal Institution, 3. - Molecular Physics,' Lecture VI. , Prof.
deduced from such spectra are always difficult
fold, and the Subtilis. The Enterococcus to unravel, This Nova is within three
seemed rather favourable to the develop- degrees of the Nova Geminorum of the
ment of the chicken than otherwise, and the seventh magnitude discovered in 1903,
Coli, together with the Mesentericus, slightly, both being, like the great majority of tem-
unfavourable. The Coli acting alone caused porary stars, quite near the Milky Way.
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
-
T. R. Holmes.
Mr. J. .
-
Fletcher.
grove. (Colonial section. )
Cells of Different Manufacture,' W. ;
and Mr. Beckett :
T. W. Price
T. E. Salveson.
t. A. Dixey.
Institution of Electrical Engineers, 8. -'The Power Pactor and
-
Schorn.
FAI.
BAT.
Thomson.
Bir J. J. Thomson.
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discovered that one distinct use for these quite consistent with the standard of solidity
FINE ARTS
trees in churchyards was to provide liberally established in the painting of the figure.
for the decoration of the church with their At the opposite pole from such sterling
boughs at the festival of Easter, and this honesty of presentment is the intolerable
obviously because the tree was regarded as a sentimentality of J. Simpson's Portrait of a
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
special emblem of immortality. This Easter Gentleman (110), an accomplished example
dressing of churches with yew prevailed in of Lawrence's methods in the hands of a
Byways in British Archæology. By Walter many a country church within the memory follower, not in this instance so cheap
Johnson. (Cambridge University Press. ) of those now living, long before the present a craftsman as Lawrence at his worst, but
In these 500 pages Mr. Johnson has brought custom of floral decoration had attained to even softer and more effeminate in taste.
together a series of essays on archæological its modern proportions.
Reynolds's Capt. Delaval (118), sentimental
subjects, each of which shows considerable We are entirely at one with Mr. Johnson also, is respectable by comparison, and
reading and accurate research. A good in thinking that the use of churchyard yews has probably gained considerably by
portion of his book is occupied with the to provide bows for archery was not the the fading of the lakes, which leaves it with
church and churchyard. The chapters primary cause of their planting; never- a very pleasant cool tonality.
which can claim to break virgin soil, or, theless, he might have found in church- Among the landscapes the most important
at least, to embody a great amount of fresh wardens' accounts actual details of the is a tiny Gainsborough (143). In this the
information, are those on "The Folk-lore of cutting of yow boughs for such uses at a given introduction of the upright tree to the
the Cardinal Points,' 'The Cult of the price, the proceeds being entered among the spectator's left undoubtedly disturbs
Horse,' and 'The Labour'd Ox. '
general church receipts.
noble composition. With this small reser-
The amount of information
compactly We have dealt with a portion only of vation we esteem it one of the most delightful
presented is remarkable, and it may fairly these comprehensive studies. The other paintings of the English School. It is an
be said that every reasoning British archæ. articles are all well supplied with references, instance of inspired improvisation of extra-
ologist ought to read these pages. Some e. g. , in 'The Cult of the Horse' Prof. ordinary charm. A fine water-colour (157)
omissions and slips occur from time to time, Ridgeway's original researches are referred by Turner in his restrained early manner,
but they are comparatively trivial when to. Throughout the volume is well illus- and a Corot (145) remarkable for the
set against the great store of garnered facts. trated.
subtle modulation of the ground plane, are
It is happily one of the distinguishing
also noteworthy; but the large Cotman (117),
features of the book that the author has no
Scene on the Norfolk Coast, despite a well-
preconceived theories to back up, but en-
SPRING EXHIBITION AT MESSRS.
painted sky and distance, is disappointing,
deavours fairly to set forth the diverse views
SHEPHERD'S GALLERY.
the main body of the painting being couched
of other writers without partiality.
in a brown monochrome over-modelled to
In dealing with the deflection of churches,
RUBENS's Virgin and Child and St. John, the point of losing its solidity, and leaving
Mr. Johnson seems scarcely to have grasped scrupulously withdrawn from a previous the sky over-coloured by comparison.
the reason for the scorn with which some show because doubts were expressed as to
of the best writers of modern days treat its authenticity, returns as No. 152 of the
the popular theory. The idea that a twist present exhibition with a guarantea from
in the chancel as compared with the nave, the pen of M. Max Rooses. Few will find
DRAWINGS BY THOMAS
threefold deflection, such as cha- any difficulty in accepting his assurance as
ROWLANDSON.
racterizes Lichfield Cathedral and a
few
to its origin, but it can hardly be regarded
other churches, was deliberately planned with general satisfaction. The colour is tired, THE catalogue of this exhibition at
by medieval builders to portray the in-
and the drawing to an extraordinary degree Messrs. Colnaghi & Obach's Pall Mall
clination of our Lord's body on the Cross,
flaccid and lacking, in sense of structure, Galleries includes an essay from the pen
is fairly entitled to ridicule. For, to the head only of the Virgin being to some of our own late critic—F. G. Stephens-
accomplish this, there must have been a extent worthy of the master. Considerable reprinted from The Portfolio of July, 1891,
direct understanding between builders sepa-
interest attaches to two small copies of which affords a just estimate of the relative
rated from each other by centuries of time. Van Dyck-Charles I. on Horseback (105 in merits of Rowlandson and Gillray, their
When advocates of this symbolical notion the present collection) and Charles I. on predecessor Hogarth, and their follower
can point out one or two churches, known Horseback, accompanied by M. de St. Cruikshank.
to be erected throughout at the same time, Antoine (113). The latter is ascribed, The Faro Table at Devonshire House
with deflections of this character, they may
doubtless correctly, to Dobson; but not (4), is a lively illustration, if artistic-
possibly be able to prove their case; but withstanding all the varied, accomplish ally inferior to many of the drawings
at present all the cited cases of deflection ment of his technique, it is the copy alongside it. The brilliant Auction Scene
pertain to different architectural periods.
of the National Gallery picture which is the (18) may be taken as but one of these.
An interesting section is that which deals more admirable performance. It has an It is amusing as an estimate of the en-
with The Secular Uses of the Church enamel-like force of colour difficult to
thusiasts who price works of art by the
Fabric. With regard to stocks, Mr. John- parallel among the comparatively little. man in closer touch with life who makes
con seems to have little knowledge of Corn. known English painters of the time.
them. The satire may be a little unkind
wall. He cites a single Lincolnshire instance Among the portraits, an early Raeburn, in this drawing, but the essential charac-
in which stocks were kept under the church Mrs. Patrick Roberlson of Gallowflat, shows terization of habitual pose and mental
tower. In Cornwall, at the present day, he painting less elaborate, but more inti- attitude remains applicable.
would find the old stocks in the porches or mate, than we are accustomed to. It is One of the most beautiful drawings in
within the church itself, in at least a score free from the ill-balanced accomplishment the collection is No. 55, A Snug Cabin, or
of cases.
As to “church armour,” there is which endows most of his figures with a Port Admiral. The cabin is snug indeed
no doubt that it was identical with “parish material solidity out of proportion with ---a very paradise of buoyant adventure,
armour”; it was usually, if not invariably, their vital reality. No. 103, A Soldier of high up in the projecting forecastle of
stored in some part of the church, as can be Fortune (called Spanish School, but with some old frigate, so that the windows
proved from a hundred churchwardens' ac- a Flemish flavour in the execution), has project at an angle facing slightly down.
counts up and down the country. The author the same fault, and looks like an ingeniously wards. Through them the sunlight re-
might, too, have added a large number of devised waxwork figure a fairly lifelike flected from the sea floods the massive
beams of the cabin roof and fills the
instances of the storage of gunpowder within effigy of challenging actuality rather than a
church fabrics, which led to disastrous living creature in an unreal world, which room, so that the joyous company at
results in three or four well-known cases. would be the more accurate description of a table seems slung magically in space, with
The effect the
Rooms over porches, it would have been really fine portrait such as the modest light all round.
well to state emphatically, were generally | Child with a Mass Book (123), by some Dutch spirits of this splendour of illumination
used in pre-Reformation days as chambers or French painter of the first half of the from sea and sky together has rarely been
for the watcher or deacon of the church. A seventeenth century. Thomas Parkinson's more delightfully rendered than in this
an emotion which
common secular use of the church porch, Portrait of a Gentleman (131) is another little drawing. It is
not mentioned here, but testified by in portrait which impresses us as much by its Rowlandson felt keenly, and his delight
numerable coroners' rolls and such like moral as by its material truthfulness. in landscape is shown in such works as
records,
was for holding inquests over In Zoffany's portrait of The Hon. Mr. The Meet (23); The Swan, Thames Ditton
corpses.
Hastings (100) the head is the least sensitive (79); the noble and serene Trinity College
We have only space for a brief comment part of the work: the figure is a wonderful Bridge (57), with its superb handling of
on the good chapter on ‘The Churchyard example of the art of filling clothes with line; and the inspiriting Return of Nelson
Yew. Had Mr. Johnson made a special well-constructed limbs by only the most (31), wherein the rejoicing crowd, the
study of old churchwardens' accounts, not a subtle and slight indications; the landscape fresh breeze, the swelling sails of the
few of which have been printed, he would have background is of great technical beauty, if not | victorious fleet, with dismasted prizes in
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was
rooms
more
tow, and the junketing of sailors and More frequently his work, which often re- L. F. Abbott, whole-length by W. Barnard,
women, make a delightful ensemble. sembles that of another sensitive, yet rarely printed in colours, 841. Blind Man's Buff,
The good-natured girl, again, in Grog on quite satisfying painter, Mr. J. S. Hill, suffers
after Morland, by W. Ward, open letter proof,
541. 128. What You Will ! by and after J. R.
Board (34) is a magnificent creation. from the overlaying of many impressions-
Smith, 501. 88. Hebe (Mrs. Musters),
after Rey.
The smirking_miss in the companion the lack of deliberation and self-control. nolds, by C. Hodges, coloured, 631. The Romps,
subject (38), Tea on Shore, is by com-
after Bigg, by W. Ward, printed in colours, 631.
parison dull enough. A Rowlandson
The work of the late Leandro Garrido is The Country Butcher, after Morland, by T. Gosse,
who is not amorous is inexplicable, so
the very opposite of that just considered. He printed in colours, 521. 108.
entirely does he respond, with a large did capably what he set out to do, which
The same auctioneers sold a collection of
impartiality which is of the essence of his a rather prosaic thing. He devoted
etchings on Tuesday, the 19th inst. By D. Y.
genius, to every appeal of sense.
himself particularly to recording with ex-
Cameron : The Doges' Palace, Venice, 1051. ;
treme solidarity the disintegrating, distorting St. Laumer, Blois, 941. Harfleur, 751. ; Craigievar,
effects of a smile upon the human counten- 841. ; Ca d'Oro (framed), 601. ; Ben Ledi (framed),
ance, forcing it, as a rule, beyond the 1891. Drypoints by Muirhead Bone : The Prison,
Ayr, 711. ; The Shot Tower, 681. ; Old and New
THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH degree of elaboration up to which he was
Gaiety Theatres, 681. ; The Liberty Clock, 711. ;
able to preserve the delicacy of relationships Fisher's Creek, King's Lynn, 651.
ARTISTS.
suggestive of mobility. Some of his draw-
The standard of merit at Suffolk Street exhibition of his works at the St. George's
ings, a number of which are included in the
is higher among the water-colours than in Gallery, are less open to this reproach; and
the
devoted to oil paintings. the three selected to represent him at the
Fine Art Gossip.
The drawings of Mr. Arthur Ellis, Church Victoria and Albert Museum-Nos. 32, 36,
Interior (314) and Trees by the Roadside (297), and 50-are admirably chosen. No. 42
BOLDINI's portrait of the late Lady Colin
show a great improvement on his previous might have been added also, for its alert
Campbell has been presented by her exe-
work in the direction of more crisp and and momentary expressiveness.
cutors to, and accepted by, the Trustees of,
forcible execution and
confident
the National Gallery, where it is now hung
design. They are among the best works in At the Baillie Gallery is a collection of in a room devoted to the French Schools.
the show. Sunshine (320), by the same work of the late Paul Maitland, a follower
artist, is again brilliant in colour, and in- of Whistler, with kinship also with Mr. Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes, which occurred
WE regret to announce the death of Mrs.
genious in the way in which a composition Walter Greaves. Nos. 5, 15, and 16 are
made up almost entirely of rectilinear
ele good examples. The interiors painted by Cornwall. Mrs. Forbes had recently under
suddenly last Saturday evening at Newlyn,
ments is given variety and interest. It is Mrs. Delissa Joseph are not ill-studied as
shamefully ill-hung, in view of the standard
to lighting, but singularly careless in their gone an operation in London, and her health
of merit of the pictures beneath it. Mr. draughtsmanship.
had arisen as to their treatment with the object which, even to the most musically gifted ethno-
Staphylococcus pyogenes aureus, and B. pyocyaneus.
of preservation, for although not painted, as was logist working " in the field," was strongly
at one time supposed, on the actual backs of the emphasized. The structure and details of other
Cultures in peptone water were inoculated to slips stalls of the Knights of the Garter, but on separate songs were indicated by various lantern . slides
of glass, and after being allowed to dry in the air panels, their removal was impossible without in which (1) the music was reduced to our own
were transferred to test tubes from which the air increasing the damage already sustained. The
was exhausted by means of a motor pump, the
notation ; (2) the nature and frequency of the
St. Stephen subjects are of English origin, and various intervals employed were demonstrated,
vacuum being completed by Sir James Dewar's possibly painted for the place they occupy, the intervals being expressed in ratios of vibration
charcoal and liquid air apparatus; the use of though not in silu. They show indications of frequencies or in "cents," i. e. , hundredth parts
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6
in
of our tempered semitone ; and (3) the various
apparently great intestinal disturbance, and
scales deduced from the songs were shown.
Detailed descriptions were given of tho technique
the Subtilis proved fata) to growth. From
Science Gossip.
of analyzing phonographic records, and of the
these facts M. Cohendy draws the conclusion
graphic method introduced by Dr. Myers for
that an animal reared in a perfectly aseptic
recording “in the field " the occasionally baffling MM. PAPIN AND ROUILLY have invented atmosphere does not thereby become ultra-
rbythms, met with especially in the drum accom- a new and very ingenious aeroplane upon sensitive to the action of microbes; but
paniments to primitive music. The music of what they call the gyropter principle. that bacteria harmless to the normal
analyzed to show (1) the wide difference even
Instead of imitating the bird or insect, they animal are harmful to one reared under
between such very simple forms of music belong. have taken the seed-vessel of the sycamore abnormal conditions. The distinction is,
ing to two distant peoples ; (2) the different lines or plane tree for their model, and have perhaps, rather fine-drawn.
of musica! development traceable within different equipped their machine with one vast sail,
communities ; (3) the great importance, alike placed at an acute angle with the horizon
SIR J. J. THOMSON, whose work at the
for ethnology and musical history, of studying
the process of diffusion of the various styles of and rotating freely round the car, which is Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge is
music, and also of musical instruments, in regard suspended at some small distance from its familiar all over the world, has been ap.
to their form, their intervals, and their absolute lower end or point. Hence, if the motor pointed to the Order of Merit.
pitch.
stops working from any cause, it is said that
THE twentieth James Forrest Lecture
the car will descend on an even keel, the
METEOROLOGICAL. - March 20. -Dr. H. N.
will be delivered at the Institution of Civil
Dickson, President, in the chair. -Prof. Otto
automatic rotation of the sail, from the Engineers on Friday, April 19th, at 9 P. M. ,
Pettersson delivered a lecture on The Connec- joint effect of the pressure of the air and
Phenomena. ' He began by saying that the scopic equilibrium as
tion between Hydrographical and Meteorological the gravitational force, preserving the gyro- by Mr. H. R, Arnulph Mallock, his subject
the vegetable
being “Aerial Flight. '
Medieval Age was characterized by frequent model. The engine is also designed on a
violent climatic changes, which seem to have
MESSRS. WITHERBY & Co. are shortly
culminated in the thirteenth and fourteenth
new principle, and acts directly upon the publishing for Mr. F. W. Headley an illus-
centuries, when hot summers, accompanied by driving shaft by the emission of compressed trated book on "The Flight of Birds, a
droughts" (which nearly, dried up the rivers of air from orifices, in the same way as the subject which the author has long studied.
Europe), alternated with cold summers and hydraulic whirls now used for the sprinkling The book is designed to interest the aviator
excessive rainfall. In winter violent storm-
floods occurred which entirely remoulded the of lawns. Drawings of the apparatus were as well as the ornithologist.
coasts of the North Sea ; or frost set in so severely exhibited at the last meeting of the Académie
that the entire Baltic and sometimes even the des Sciences.
PROF. BACKLUND, Director of the Imperial
Kattegat and the Skagerak were frozen. The
Observatory at Pulkowa, Russia, whose
lecturer showed that such phenomena may be THE appearance of certain metals in
name is closely associated with Encke's
ascribed to alterations in the oceanic circulation animal tissues has long been studied, and the comet, to the study of which he has devoted
caused by the influence of the moon and the sun.
Experiments carried on during the last four years
presence of minute quantities of arsenic in
many years of assiduous labour, has recently
at Bornoe in Sweden have shown that the inflow the secretions of the thyroid gland has been
published some interesting speculations as
of the under-current from the North Sea into the noted. Prof. Henze has now discovered that to the periodic changes in brightness of a
Kattegat--which brings the herring shoals in the blood globules of Phallusia mamillata, puzzling nature which the comet undergoes.
winter to the Swedish coast—is oscillatory, the
an ascidian fairly common in the Mediter. It has been noticed that the comet is much
boundary surface of the deep water rising and
sinking from 50 to 80 ft
. about twice a month. ranean, give the characteristic reaction of brighter before than after its perihelion
The phenomenon is governed by the moon's the rare metal vanadium, which seems to be passage, and Prof. Backlund explains this
declination and proximity to the earth. From present in the form of vanadic acid. Van.
by supposing that the particles composing
astronomical data Prof. Pettersson concludes adium has been used of late years in the Encke's comet are not round, but flat par-
that the influence both of the sun and of the moon
manufacture of steel alloys, and seems to ticles oriented in parallel planes. So,
upon the waters of the ocean in winter about the
time of the solstice must have been greater 600
act here as a catalyser, no doubt playing when either the earth or the sun is in the
to 700 years ago than at the present time. some part in the physiological process of mean plane of the particles, there would
oxidation.
be a great loss of light, just as Saturn's ring
M. VAILLARD, Medical Inspector-General
vanishes when its plane passes through
either the earth or the sun.
of the French Army, has investigated the
Mox. Institute of Actuarles, 5. -'Notes on the Construction of
ielortalido Tablet R. Eldertohen dhe der Fipronil phenomena of the transmission of germs THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES in St. Peters-
Museum, 8. -English Modern Archi-
tecture,' Mr. B. Fletcher.
from one individual to another in epidemic burg has founded an institute for research
Society of Arts, 8. - Materials and Methods of Decorative
diseases, such as diphtheria, typhoid fever, in chemistry, physics, and mineralogy, which
Painting. ' Lecture II. , Mr. N. Heaton. (Cantor Lecture. )
Geograpbical: 8. 30. - Exploration in N. W. Mongolia and cerebro-spinal meningitis, and even the new is to be called the Lomonossov Institute,
Dzungaria,' Mr. D. Carruthers.
Turs. Royal Institution, 8. - Ancient Britain,' Lecture III, Dr. malady called acute poliomyelitis. He de- in honour of the distinguished Russian
Colonial Institute. 4-The Boundaries of British Guiana,' clares it to be proved, as the result of naturalist Michael Lomonossov, whose bi-
British Museum, 1. 30. – Later Byzantine Churches," Mr. B. experiments on animals, that individuals
centenary was celebrated in 1911.
can act as carriers of the germs of diseases
Society of Arts, 4. 30. – British North Borneo,' Mr. L Love-
without themselves suffering from them.
THE Nova, or temporary star, near 0
Faraday, 8. Dry Batteries : tho Relation between the
Incidence of the Discharge and the Relative Capacity of
This has, of course, long been known or
Geminorum (not n of the constellation, as
stated in the first announcement) appears
tributions to the Knowledger or Liquid Mistureom Parton: suspected in complaints like scarlet fever,
Klectrolysis in where the power of contagion survives the
to be fading. Possibly Mr. Enebo, the dis.
Liquefied Sulphur Dioxide,' Messrs. L. 8 Bagster and B. D.
Steele The Elimination of Potontial due to Liquid Con; patient's return to health, and in others like coverer, caught it at its moment of maximum
tact. ' Part II. , Mr. A. 0. Cumming; 'Vapour Pressure of
Concentrated Aqueous solutions, Mossrs. E. P. Perman and measles and perhaps mumps, where he seems
brilliancy, though it has happened—the case
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. -Discussion on The Main
to be capable of conveying infection during
being that of Nova Aurigæ (1892)—that a
Drainage of Glasgow, The Construction of the Glasgow the period of incubation. M. Vaillard now
star visible to the naked eye shone un.
Main-Drainage Works,' and 'Glasgow Main Drainage : tho
Mochanical Equipment of the Western Works and of the declares, however, that there are individuals
noticed in the heavens for nearly two
Kinning Park Pumping-Station Paper on The Works for
months.
the Pupply of Water to the City of Birmingham from Mid capable of acting as th3 carriers of harmful
The spectrum photographed at
, . .
WED. S ciety of Literature,
0. - The Best Poetry,'
Mr. T. 8. Moore.
bacteria, such as those causing cholera and
Greenwich with small dispersion shows
Geoloxical, S. , The Glaciation of the Black Combe District, diphtheria in its various forms, without ever
dark bands on the violet side of the bright
Cumberland, Mr. Bernard Smith;. 'The Older Palæozoic
Succession of the Duddon Estuary. Mr. J. F. N. Green. being them selves attacked by them. This,
hydrogen lines, which is an invariable cha-
Society of Arts, 8. -The Whaling Industry of To-day, Mr.
he says truly, complicates further the ques.
racteristic of the spectrum of bodies of this
THURS. Royal Institution, 3. -'Sexual Dimorphism in Butterflies,' Dr. tion of isolation for infectious and con-
class when first seen, and has often been
Chemical, 80. - Annual Meeting i Somo Stereochemical tagious diseases.
taken as indubitable evidence of motion and
Problems,' Prof. P. F. Frankland Presidential Address.
Royal. 430. -'A Confusion Test for Colour Blindness, Dr.
collision-possibly of a star with a nebula.
U. J. Burch ;, 'On
the Systematic
Position of the Spirochæts, M. MICHEL COHENDY is continuing at the
Mr. C. Dobell; 'The Influence of Selection and Assortatire
This view loses some credibility, because
Mating on the Ancestral and Fraternal Correlations of a Institut Pasteur the researches into the
Mendeliau Population,' Mr. K. C. Snow: The Human Elec-
the sameness of the relative positions of the
trocardiogram: a Preliminary Investigation
of Young Male action of bacteria lately noted in the dark and bright bands would require that
Adults, to form a Basis for Pathological Study, Messrs. T.
Athenæum. Chickens hatched and
Lewis and M. D. D. Gilder: and other Papers.
kept the star and the nebula should be moving
an atmosphere absolutely free from
Conductivity of Dielectrice when tested with Alteronting
in the same directions relative to the earth
Electric Curronts of Telephonic Frequency at Various Temn. microbes have been exposed by him to the in all the observed cases, which seems un.
peratures,' Dr. J. A. Fleming and Mr. G. B. Dyke.
English Goethe Society, 8. 2. -'Goethe's Faust, Dr. H. T.
action of bacteria which are not harmful to likely. Later observations of the spectrum
Society of Antiquaries, 8. 30.
the normal individual, among them being the show that it is already changing, as generally
Royal Institution, 8. Results of the Application of Positiro
Rays to the Stady of Chemical Problems,' Prot. str J. J.
Coli commune of Eschrich, the Mesentericus | happens, but the exact conclusions to be
fuscus of Flügge, the Enterococcus of Gröten.
Royal Institution, 3. - Molecular Physics,' Lecture VI. , Prof.
deduced from such spectra are always difficult
fold, and the Subtilis. The Enterococcus to unravel, This Nova is within three
seemed rather favourable to the develop- degrees of the Nova Geminorum of the
ment of the chicken than otherwise, and the seventh magnitude discovered in 1903,
Coli, together with the Mesentericus, slightly, both being, like the great majority of tem-
unfavourable. The Coli acting alone caused porary stars, quite near the Milky Way.
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
-
T. R. Holmes.
Mr. J. .
-
Fletcher.
grove. (Colonial section. )
Cells of Different Manufacture,' W. ;
and Mr. Beckett :
T. W. Price
T. E. Salveson.
t. A. Dixey.
Institution of Electrical Engineers, 8. -'The Power Pactor and
-
Schorn.
FAI.
BAT.
Thomson.
Bir J. J. Thomson.
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FINE ARTS
trees in churchyards was to provide liberally established in the painting of the figure.
for the decoration of the church with their At the opposite pole from such sterling
boughs at the festival of Easter, and this honesty of presentment is the intolerable
obviously because the tree was regarded as a sentimentality of J. Simpson's Portrait of a
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
special emblem of immortality. This Easter Gentleman (110), an accomplished example
dressing of churches with yew prevailed in of Lawrence's methods in the hands of a
Byways in British Archæology. By Walter many a country church within the memory follower, not in this instance so cheap
Johnson. (Cambridge University Press. ) of those now living, long before the present a craftsman as Lawrence at his worst, but
In these 500 pages Mr. Johnson has brought custom of floral decoration had attained to even softer and more effeminate in taste.
together a series of essays on archæological its modern proportions.
Reynolds's Capt. Delaval (118), sentimental
subjects, each of which shows considerable We are entirely at one with Mr. Johnson also, is respectable by comparison, and
reading and accurate research. A good in thinking that the use of churchyard yews has probably gained considerably by
portion of his book is occupied with the to provide bows for archery was not the the fading of the lakes, which leaves it with
church and churchyard. The chapters primary cause of their planting; never- a very pleasant cool tonality.
which can claim to break virgin soil, or, theless, he might have found in church- Among the landscapes the most important
at least, to embody a great amount of fresh wardens' accounts actual details of the is a tiny Gainsborough (143). In this the
information, are those on "The Folk-lore of cutting of yow boughs for such uses at a given introduction of the upright tree to the
the Cardinal Points,' 'The Cult of the price, the proceeds being entered among the spectator's left undoubtedly disturbs
Horse,' and 'The Labour'd Ox. '
general church receipts.
noble composition. With this small reser-
The amount of information
compactly We have dealt with a portion only of vation we esteem it one of the most delightful
presented is remarkable, and it may fairly these comprehensive studies. The other paintings of the English School. It is an
be said that every reasoning British archæ. articles are all well supplied with references, instance of inspired improvisation of extra-
ologist ought to read these pages. Some e. g. , in 'The Cult of the Horse' Prof. ordinary charm. A fine water-colour (157)
omissions and slips occur from time to time, Ridgeway's original researches are referred by Turner in his restrained early manner,
but they are comparatively trivial when to. Throughout the volume is well illus- and a Corot (145) remarkable for the
set against the great store of garnered facts. trated.
subtle modulation of the ground plane, are
It is happily one of the distinguishing
also noteworthy; but the large Cotman (117),
features of the book that the author has no
Scene on the Norfolk Coast, despite a well-
preconceived theories to back up, but en-
SPRING EXHIBITION AT MESSRS.
painted sky and distance, is disappointing,
deavours fairly to set forth the diverse views
SHEPHERD'S GALLERY.
the main body of the painting being couched
of other writers without partiality.
in a brown monochrome over-modelled to
In dealing with the deflection of churches,
RUBENS's Virgin and Child and St. John, the point of losing its solidity, and leaving
Mr. Johnson seems scarcely to have grasped scrupulously withdrawn from a previous the sky over-coloured by comparison.
the reason for the scorn with which some show because doubts were expressed as to
of the best writers of modern days treat its authenticity, returns as No. 152 of the
the popular theory. The idea that a twist present exhibition with a guarantea from
in the chancel as compared with the nave, the pen of M. Max Rooses. Few will find
DRAWINGS BY THOMAS
threefold deflection, such as cha- any difficulty in accepting his assurance as
ROWLANDSON.
racterizes Lichfield Cathedral and a
few
to its origin, but it can hardly be regarded
other churches, was deliberately planned with general satisfaction. The colour is tired, THE catalogue of this exhibition at
by medieval builders to portray the in-
and the drawing to an extraordinary degree Messrs. Colnaghi & Obach's Pall Mall
clination of our Lord's body on the Cross,
flaccid and lacking, in sense of structure, Galleries includes an essay from the pen
is fairly entitled to ridicule. For, to the head only of the Virgin being to some of our own late critic—F. G. Stephens-
accomplish this, there must have been a extent worthy of the master. Considerable reprinted from The Portfolio of July, 1891,
direct understanding between builders sepa-
interest attaches to two small copies of which affords a just estimate of the relative
rated from each other by centuries of time. Van Dyck-Charles I. on Horseback (105 in merits of Rowlandson and Gillray, their
When advocates of this symbolical notion the present collection) and Charles I. on predecessor Hogarth, and their follower
can point out one or two churches, known Horseback, accompanied by M. de St. Cruikshank.
to be erected throughout at the same time, Antoine (113). The latter is ascribed, The Faro Table at Devonshire House
with deflections of this character, they may
doubtless correctly, to Dobson; but not (4), is a lively illustration, if artistic-
possibly be able to prove their case; but withstanding all the varied, accomplish ally inferior to many of the drawings
at present all the cited cases of deflection ment of his technique, it is the copy alongside it. The brilliant Auction Scene
pertain to different architectural periods.
of the National Gallery picture which is the (18) may be taken as but one of these.
An interesting section is that which deals more admirable performance. It has an It is amusing as an estimate of the en-
with The Secular Uses of the Church enamel-like force of colour difficult to
thusiasts who price works of art by the
Fabric. With regard to stocks, Mr. John- parallel among the comparatively little. man in closer touch with life who makes
con seems to have little knowledge of Corn. known English painters of the time.
them. The satire may be a little unkind
wall. He cites a single Lincolnshire instance Among the portraits, an early Raeburn, in this drawing, but the essential charac-
in which stocks were kept under the church Mrs. Patrick Roberlson of Gallowflat, shows terization of habitual pose and mental
tower. In Cornwall, at the present day, he painting less elaborate, but more inti- attitude remains applicable.
would find the old stocks in the porches or mate, than we are accustomed to. It is One of the most beautiful drawings in
within the church itself, in at least a score free from the ill-balanced accomplishment the collection is No. 55, A Snug Cabin, or
of cases.
As to “church armour,” there is which endows most of his figures with a Port Admiral. The cabin is snug indeed
no doubt that it was identical with “parish material solidity out of proportion with ---a very paradise of buoyant adventure,
armour”; it was usually, if not invariably, their vital reality. No. 103, A Soldier of high up in the projecting forecastle of
stored in some part of the church, as can be Fortune (called Spanish School, but with some old frigate, so that the windows
proved from a hundred churchwardens' ac- a Flemish flavour in the execution), has project at an angle facing slightly down.
counts up and down the country. The author the same fault, and looks like an ingeniously wards. Through them the sunlight re-
might, too, have added a large number of devised waxwork figure a fairly lifelike flected from the sea floods the massive
beams of the cabin roof and fills the
instances of the storage of gunpowder within effigy of challenging actuality rather than a
church fabrics, which led to disastrous living creature in an unreal world, which room, so that the joyous company at
results in three or four well-known cases. would be the more accurate description of a table seems slung magically in space, with
The effect the
Rooms over porches, it would have been really fine portrait such as the modest light all round.
well to state emphatically, were generally | Child with a Mass Book (123), by some Dutch spirits of this splendour of illumination
used in pre-Reformation days as chambers or French painter of the first half of the from sea and sky together has rarely been
for the watcher or deacon of the church. A seventeenth century. Thomas Parkinson's more delightfully rendered than in this
an emotion which
common secular use of the church porch, Portrait of a Gentleman (131) is another little drawing. It is
not mentioned here, but testified by in portrait which impresses us as much by its Rowlandson felt keenly, and his delight
numerable coroners' rolls and such like moral as by its material truthfulness. in landscape is shown in such works as
records,
was for holding inquests over In Zoffany's portrait of The Hon. Mr. The Meet (23); The Swan, Thames Ditton
corpses.
Hastings (100) the head is the least sensitive (79); the noble and serene Trinity College
We have only space for a brief comment part of the work: the figure is a wonderful Bridge (57), with its superb handling of
on the good chapter on ‘The Churchyard example of the art of filling clothes with line; and the inspiriting Return of Nelson
Yew. Had Mr. Johnson made a special well-constructed limbs by only the most (31), wherein the rejoicing crowd, the
study of old churchwardens' accounts, not a subtle and slight indications; the landscape fresh breeze, the swelling sails of the
few of which have been printed, he would have background is of great technical beauty, if not | victorious fleet, with dismasted prizes in
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was
rooms
more
tow, and the junketing of sailors and More frequently his work, which often re- L. F. Abbott, whole-length by W. Barnard,
women, make a delightful ensemble. sembles that of another sensitive, yet rarely printed in colours, 841. Blind Man's Buff,
The good-natured girl, again, in Grog on quite satisfying painter, Mr. J. S. Hill, suffers
after Morland, by W. Ward, open letter proof,
541. 128. What You Will ! by and after J. R.
Board (34) is a magnificent creation. from the overlaying of many impressions-
Smith, 501. 88. Hebe (Mrs. Musters),
after Rey.
The smirking_miss in the companion the lack of deliberation and self-control. nolds, by C. Hodges, coloured, 631. The Romps,
subject (38), Tea on Shore, is by com-
after Bigg, by W. Ward, printed in colours, 631.
parison dull enough. A Rowlandson
The work of the late Leandro Garrido is The Country Butcher, after Morland, by T. Gosse,
who is not amorous is inexplicable, so
the very opposite of that just considered. He printed in colours, 521. 108.
entirely does he respond, with a large did capably what he set out to do, which
The same auctioneers sold a collection of
impartiality which is of the essence of his a rather prosaic thing. He devoted
etchings on Tuesday, the 19th inst. By D. Y.
genius, to every appeal of sense.
himself particularly to recording with ex-
Cameron : The Doges' Palace, Venice, 1051. ;
treme solidarity the disintegrating, distorting St. Laumer, Blois, 941. Harfleur, 751. ; Craigievar,
effects of a smile upon the human counten- 841. ; Ca d'Oro (framed), 601. ; Ben Ledi (framed),
ance, forcing it, as a rule, beyond the 1891. Drypoints by Muirhead Bone : The Prison,
Ayr, 711. ; The Shot Tower, 681. ; Old and New
THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH degree of elaboration up to which he was
Gaiety Theatres, 681. ; The Liberty Clock, 711. ;
able to preserve the delicacy of relationships Fisher's Creek, King's Lynn, 651.
ARTISTS.
suggestive of mobility. Some of his draw-
The standard of merit at Suffolk Street exhibition of his works at the St. George's
ings, a number of which are included in the
is higher among the water-colours than in Gallery, are less open to this reproach; and
the
devoted to oil paintings. the three selected to represent him at the
Fine Art Gossip.
The drawings of Mr. Arthur Ellis, Church Victoria and Albert Museum-Nos. 32, 36,
Interior (314) and Trees by the Roadside (297), and 50-are admirably chosen. No. 42
BOLDINI's portrait of the late Lady Colin
show a great improvement on his previous might have been added also, for its alert
Campbell has been presented by her exe-
work in the direction of more crisp and and momentary expressiveness.
cutors to, and accepted by, the Trustees of,
forcible execution and
confident
the National Gallery, where it is now hung
design. They are among the best works in At the Baillie Gallery is a collection of in a room devoted to the French Schools.
the show. Sunshine (320), by the same work of the late Paul Maitland, a follower
artist, is again brilliant in colour, and in- of Whistler, with kinship also with Mr. Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes, which occurred
WE regret to announce the death of Mrs.
genious in the way in which a composition Walter Greaves. Nos. 5, 15, and 16 are
made up almost entirely of rectilinear
ele good examples. The interiors painted by Cornwall. Mrs. Forbes had recently under
suddenly last Saturday evening at Newlyn,
ments is given variety and interest. It is Mrs. Delissa Joseph are not ill-studied as
shamefully ill-hung, in view of the standard
to lighting, but singularly careless in their gone an operation in London, and her health
of merit of the pictures beneath it. Mr. draughtsmanship.
