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the matter. The spherules concomitant with the gaseous erosion 

 of granites and other rocks, thrown up into the atmosphere to the 

 great height reached by fine volcanic ejections, may be sustained 

 in the air for a very long time, and fall to the earth at great dis- 

 tances. In support of this opinion it will be recollected that in the 

 basins of seas, the corpuscles of which we are speaking, to which 

 MM. Re'nard and Murray do not hesitate to ascribe an extra- 

 terrestrial origin, are generally associated with clearly volcanic 

 products. 



In order to elucidate completely the origin of the globuliform 

 matters, I have placed melted wax in a pipette with a capillary 

 end, and blown the jet into a vessel of cold water. The product 

 had all the characteristics of the globules of which we are trying 

 to explain the origin, some hollow and having little necks like the 

 meteoric spherules, others full and joined together like the asso- 

 ciated spherules in the bald men's locks in the crater of Mauna Loa. 



The geological importance of atmospheric sediments is marked 

 in these days in many ways. The facts with which we have been 

 occupied will contribute to illustrate it still more. Translated for 

 the Popular Science Monthly from La Nature. 



NEW OUTLOOKS IN THE SCIENCE AND ART OF 



MEDICINE.* 



BY T. MITCHELL PRUDDEN, M. D. 



I WANDERED last summer over that marvelous land of sun- 

 shine in our great Southwest where still fast dwindling groups 

 of the real Americans cherish quaint customs, and linger among 

 the superstitions of vanished centuries. And Fortune made me 

 for a time a guest in a small tribe of these Indians, as yet almost 

 untouched by the blighting finger of what to us is civilization. 



I was drawn to them in this way : There came to our camp 

 upon the plains, one evening, a woebegone dark fellow of this 

 tribe, who with his squaw had wandered away from his comrades, 

 seeking a quiet place to die. He was wan and feeble. A demon, 

 he told us, had long since gained entrance to his body and had 

 tortured him with pain and cold and fire. All the art of his 

 tribal medicine men had failed to free him from the intruder, 

 and a little while before, some spirit had begun to whisper to him 

 in his sleep, he said, that he must go into the dark. All this was 

 gathered from lip and gesture and pantomime as he lingered with 



* An address before the graduating class of the Yale Medical School at Commence- 

 ment, on June 25, 1895. 



