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On Saturday afternoon last Professor Ansted was thrown with 
so much violence from a low basket phaeton in which he and 
another gentleman were driving, near Melton, that his thigh was 
broken, and a severe scalp wound inflicted. After being attended 
to by a doctor, he was removed to his house at Melton. Hopes 
of his recovery are entertained. 
On Saturday last Canon Greenwell, of Durham Cathedral, 
and Professor Rolleston, of Oxford, completed a series of very 
interesting excavations among the ancient barrows which exist in 
the Goodmanham and Etton Wolds, near Beverley, Yorkshire. 
There is a singular absence in these barrows of the imple- 
ments so frequently found with ancient human remains in 
many parts of the country. Not only in the present ex- 
cavations, but in those formerly instituted by Lord Londes- 
borough, implements usually associated with ancient inter- 
ments are entirely wanting. Contrary also to the generality 
of the barrows found on the wolds, which contain chiefly un- 
burnt remains, in this locality they are for the most part burnt. 
Although this part of the country seems to have been extensively 
peopled, as these sepulchral remains betoken, there is a singular 
absence of implements, whereas in the north and middle wolds 
flint implements are found scattered about in all directions. 
Stone axes and other rude implements are abundant in the rest 
of the wold district, but they seem to have been entirely un- 
known in this locality, as many persons have searched for such 
remains without result. 
THE Geographical Society of St. Petersburg has lately under- 
taken a new exploration of Russian territory in addition to those 
already carried on under its auspices. The plan consists in a 
minute exploration, under the leadership of M. Tschekanowsky, 
of the area between the lower affluents of the Yenisei and the 
Lena, embracing the basin of the river Olenek, which represents 
an important deficiency in the known portion of Eastern Siberia, 
Two years will be occupied in the exploration. During the 
first the expedition will descend the Lower Tunguska, and will 
reach Irkutsk by the Yenisei, During the second year it ex- 
pects to reach the sources of the Olenek by sledges, to descend 
that river to its mouth, and then cross over to the Lena, and re- 
turn by this river to Irkutsk, 
THOSE who are interested in the mental advancement of women, 
should refer to the March number of the American Naturalist, 
in which they will find that the first article, on ‘‘ Controlling sex 
in butterflies,” is written by Mrs. Mary Treat. This lady has 
prosecuted her inquiries in a truly scientific spirit, and she records 
her results with the greatest precision and accuracy. An out- 
line of her argument will be found in our notice of the peri- 
odical in which it appears. 
Dr. Brown-SeEQuarn has started anew journal, the Archives 
of Scientific and Practical Medicine, published at New York and 
London on the 15th of each month. His sub-editor is Dr. 
E, C. Seguin. This periodical will chiefly contain original 
papers on subjects belonging to every branch of the medical 
sciences. It will also comprise véswmdés of English and foreign 
papers, reports from the author’s laboratory, and reviews of 
modern works on kindred subjects. The first number for 
January, which is beautifully printed, contains 100 pages, with 
one plate. In it Dr. Brown-Sequard contributes a paper on 
‘Effects of Injuries of Nerves,” and there are others by Dr. 
Seguin, Mr. Dupuy, Dr. Sands, Dr. Mary Putnam, and several 
able medical authors. 
PETERMANN’S JMittheilungen thus speaks of the refusal of 
Government to grant an Arctic expedition this year :—‘‘ England, 
with her enormous wealth, her multitude of ships, sailors, and 
facilities for equipment, but above all with her great experience, 
could easily have sent out such an expedition, and with more 
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prospect of success than any other nation; but the English 
Government, which appears to carry parsimony further than any 
other, has refused the request, at least for this year. But it is to 
be hoped that the undertaking, for which Government was also 
petitioned in 1865, will at last be afloat in 1874.” 
At the meeting of the French Academy last week, M. Jamin 
exhibited a magnet which he had c6nstructed to carry upwards 
of twenty-two times its own weight : it weighs 2 kilogrammes 
and carries 45. Hitherto the greatest carrying power attained 
in artificial magnets has been from four to five times their own 
weight. M. Jamin has obtained this unprecedented result by 
substituting for the very thick plates hitherto employed, a suffi- 
cient number of very thin plates superposed on each other, and 
all thoroughly magnetised. One result of this achievement will 
be that the volume and weight of magneto-electric machines can 
now be diminished to a very great extent. 
A VERY full notion of the rapid material progress of Victoria 
in almost every direction may be obtained from the Official Cata- 
logue of Exhibits of the Victoria Exhibition, opened at Melbourne 
in Nov., 1872, The entries number 1,682, and though there are 
very few connected directly with science, it would be unjust to 
form from this fact a low estimate of the progress made in scien- 
tific discovery by the colony; an investigation of the entries in 
the various departments shows that the principles of science 
have been abundantly taken advantage of in them all. It is 
gratifying to find, from the patent statistics, that every year 
shows an increase in the number of inventions connected with 
agriculture and manufactures, while the mining resources 
of the country continue to occupy a large share of the 
attention of inventors. The compiler of the catalogue 
claims with justice that Victoria has contributed a considerable 
amount of valuable data to various departments of science. 
Appended to the catalogue is an interesting essay on ‘‘ Mining 
and Mineral Statistics, with Notes on the Rock Formations of 
Victoria,” by Mr. R. Brough Smyth, F.G.S., Secretary for 
Mines for Victoria. A preliminary note gives some satisfactory 
statistics as to the progress of the Industrial and Technological 
Museum of Melbourne, which was opened in September 1870, 
THE Australian Mechanic, in an article on “Science in the 
South,” thinks ‘‘ there is good reason for hoping that the time 
is rapidly advancing when even in Australia the enthusiasm of 
science will become a wide-spread sentiment, and when a deep 
and genuine interest will be taken in questions of a purely 
abstract kind.” The AZechanic thinks it possible that ere long 
the Australians ‘‘ may have the satisfaction of hearing a Tyndall, 
a Huxley, an Owen, and their worthy fellow-labourers expound- 
ing to delighted audiences in the Melbourne Atheneum, ‘ the 
fairy tales of science.’ ” 
TuE first number of Cosmos, the new Italian geographical 
journal, is handsome and well printed, and the contents credi- 
table, There is a long article on recent expeditions to New 
Guinea, illustrated by a well-constructed map ; and, of course,’ 
another long article on African exploration, also accompanied by 
a map. Another longish article is the first of a series on the 
Russian possessions in Central Asia. Altogether the first 
number of Cosmos is satisfactory, and we wish it a long career 
and a wide circulation, 
THE Italian Geographical Society, by a unanimous vote, has 
conferred upon the Commendatore Negri Christoforo, who has 
so long and so perseveringly promoted geographical science 
among his countrymen, the title of perpetual president of the 
Society. 
MEssrs. CHAPMAN AND HALL have sent us an elaborately 
constructed but perfectly intelligible ‘Table of British Strata,” 
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