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cases of tetanus occurring in 10,896 wounded. In 

 eight cases, the disease appeared fourteen or more 

 days after the wound, one as late as twenty-seven 

 days. Stress is laid on the valuable preventative 

 action of the anti-tetanus serum. In hospitals where 

 preventative injections have been made systematically 

 the tetanus mortality is 042 per cent. ; in hospitals 

 where the injection is made in suspected cases only the 

 mortality is 1-28 {)er cent. If only a limited amount 

 of the serum is at the disposal of the surgeon, the 

 amount injected may be safely reduced from 10 c.c. 

 to 2 c.c— F. Gonnessiat : Solar eclipses : formula for 

 the correction of the elements. — Henri Villat : The 

 paradox of d'Alembert and the theory of discontinuous 

 movements. — H. Bertin-Sans and Ch. Leenhardt : The 

 localisation of projectiles in the body by radiography. 

 — O. Lignier : The staminal glands of the Fumaraceae 

 and their signification. — G. Arnaud : The suckers of 

 Meliola and Asterina. — P. Maze : Nutritive exchanges 

 in plants. The role of the protoplasm.— Jules Amar : 

 Relations between the feeding and strength of Arabs. 

 Arabs were fed on two classes of diet of equal heat 

 value, one following native custom the other French. 

 The former proved more advantageous from the point 

 of view of utilisation of the food in the form of 

 muscular work. — J. Blier : Bovine haemoglobinuria of 

 Chili.— A. Trillat and M. Fouassier : The influence of 

 the radio-activity of the air on the microbial water 

 particles in suspension in the atmosphere. 



New South Wales. 

 Linnean Society, October 28. — Mr. W. S. Dun, presi- 

 dent, in the chair. — T. G. Sloane : Revision of Aus- 

 tralian Carabidae. Part v. Part v. deals with the 

 Australian section of the tribe Helluonini, comprising 

 seven extra-Australian, and twelve Australian genera, 

 with twenty-seven species. Four genera and seven 

 species are described as new. — E. Petersen : Australian 

 Neuroptera. Part i. Two genera and five species are 

 proposed as new, and supplementary information, 

 with illustrations, of seven species previously de- 

 scribed, is given- — the entire series being referable to 

 six families. — Dr. A. J. Turner : The Lepidoptera of 

 Ebor Scrub, N.S.W. Ebor is a small township, fifty 

 miles N.N.E. of Armidale, on the eastern edge of the 

 New England Plateau, at an elevation of 4000 ft., 

 with an abundant rainfall. Representatives of thirty- 

 one species of Lepidoptera (fam. Arctiadae, Geo- 

 metridae, Pyralidae, Tortricidae, Tineidae) were col- 

 lected in the scrub. Six genera and twenty-four 

 species are described as new.— L. Harrison : Some 

 Pauropoda from New South Wales. Four species of 

 Pauropus, and one of Eurypauropus, are described as 

 new, with observations on the development of one 

 species of these delicate little Myriapods, now added 

 to the Australian fauna. — T. G. Sloane : Description 

 of a new tiger-beetle from North-Western Australia. 



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 Oil of Vitriol as an Agent of "Culture." By T. . . 

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Parabolic Orbits of Meteor Swarms 



The Spectrum of 10 Lacertae 



The Orbits of 5 Orionis, R.Z. Cassiopeise and R.X. 



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Agriculture and the War 



New Canadian Dinosaurs. {Illustrated.) By R. L. 

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