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there for’several years, ‘The light in which he represents the 
natives of Hawaii to regard the death of Captain Cook will be 
new to many of our readers. ‘‘ The natives were astonished and 
distressed at their owan barbarity, and they treated the remains 
of Cook as they did those of their highest chiefs and as if he had 
beena god. They dissected the biz bones from his legs and 
arms, as a mark of the highest honour they could confer on their 
own beloved dead. They exposed the rest of his remains before 
their great idol in the temple, and sacrificed hogs and dogs to 
his memory and to appease the gods for his and their own sins. 
His entrails had been placed carefully in a calabash and left 
aside, in order for burning in some subsequent ceremony, when 
a boy (an intelligent old man of som: 75 or 80 years in 1845, 
with whom the Doctor had conversed), supposing them to be the 
entrails of a hog, cut off a piece and roasted it on coals and ate 
it. When the officers of the ships, in their subsequent inter- 
course with the natives to recover the remains of Captain Cook, 
earned that nothing was left of them but the big bones, which 
were delivered up to them, they fancied his (flesh had been de- 
voured by the savages, and a howl went up from the British 
public and the Christian worid that the newly-discovered 
Hawaiians were natives and cannibals. Such was not the case 
at first, and has never been the case. Their firstexperience with 
a Christian people was a bitter one, and the cup for them has 
been bitter from that time to this. The fasts attending Captain 
Cook’s death, and the treatment of his remains, the Doctor re- 
ceived from the mouth of an honest old native named Keha, on 
the island of Maui, a clear-minded man, and one of the heredi- 
tary historians of the Kings or Chiefs. The natives always re- 
gretted Cook’s death.” 
Tue German Arctic Navigation Society of Hamburg 
city has received a telegram from Tromsée, dated July 6, 
according to which eighteen Norwegians who had passed the 
winter in Spitzbergen, have been found dead by the society’ s 
schooner Zyonsd¢, Captain Mack. They have been buried by 
the latter's direction. 
THE latest novelty in literature is a farthing daily 
paper, in the shape of Zhe Penny-a-Week County Daily 
Newspaper, a single copy of which may be had for a far- 
thing, but which, by a little arrangement, will be supplied to 
any subscriber for a penny a week. It is intendel as an organ 
for sowing broadcast the principles of the Conservative party, 
who, if they really have the welfare of their country at heart, 
ought to make use of this splendid opportunity for elevating the 
classes whom they want to influence, by serving up a daily 
modicum of useful knowledge methodically arranged,—7.e, 
Science. 
WE have received from A. Ernst his careful paper on the 
Meteorology of the Caracas, based on three years’ observations 
by Seftor Agustin Aveledo. 
Tue ‘Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences 
of Mauritius” for 1871, which has just reached us, shows that 
that body is in excellent working order, and is quite alive to the 
interests of Science in that hybrid colony, especially in the de- 
partment of Natural History. The curious mixture of French 
and English in the volume is significant of the history of the 
island and the mixed nationality of the colonists. The longest, 
and one of the most valuable and interesting papers in the 
volume, is Colonel Pike’s account (in English) of a visit he paid 
to the Seychelle Islands, containing important details on the 
natural history of this remote and little-known group. The So- 
ciety has been the means of successfully introducing into the 
Mauritius the cultivation of the silkworm, and an association has 
it 
NATURE 
In the Weekly Salt Lake Tribune of June 7, a lecture is re- been formed for the manufacture of textile fabrics from native 
_ ported on the Sandwich Islands by Dr. Winslow, who resided 
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plants, especially from the Agave. 
THE ‘‘ Fourth Annual Report of the State Board of Health 
of Massachusetts,” deserves the attention of all who are inte- 
rested in the public welfare so far as sanitary matters are con- 
cerned, Detailed reports on all subjects connected with public 
health are given, and some humiliating and curious revelations 
made as to adulteration of food and drink, which seems to be 
nearly as universal in Mas:achusetts as in our own enlightened 
and very moral country; as is also ignorance of the 
use and preparation of food. Reports such as these show 
how lamentable and wide-spread is ignorance of the science of 
living, and with what a host of adverse influences in the way of 
adulteration, bad drainage, and such like, civilised man is 
surrounded. 
WE have received Memoirs, by Prof. Asa Gray, of the 
late Mr. John Torrey and Mr. W. S. Sullivant, written for 
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
Part I. of vol. ix. of ‘‘The Journalof the Royal Agricultural 
Society of Englandand Wales,” contains many statistics and papers 
of great value connected with the subject of Agriculture. Besides 
a variety of statistics as to grain, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Dairy 
Produce, Prices, &c., the Journal contains the following papers : 
On the Characters of Pure and Mixed Linseed-Cakes, by Dr. 
Augustus Voelcker, F.R.S. ; Report of the Judges on the Trials 
of Portable Steam-Engines at Cardiff; Report of Experiments 
on the Growth of Barley for Twenty Years in succession on the 
same Land, by J. B. Lawes, F.R.S., and J. H. Gilbert, F.R.S. ; 
Record of Rainfall at Rothamsted (parish of Harpenden) and 
Harpenden Village, near St. Alban’s, Herts, in 1872 and the 19 
preceding years ;} Report on the Trade in Animals, and its 
Influence on the spread of Foot-and-Mouth and other Con- 
tagious or Infectious Diseases which affect the Live Stock of the 
Farm, by H. M. Jenkins, F.G.S., Secretary of the Royal 
Agricultural Society ; Further Report by the Judges on the 
Competition for Prizes for Plans of Labourers’ Cottages in con- 
nection with the Cardiff Meeting, 1872; The Potato Disease, 
by William Carruthers, F.R.S., Consulting Botanist to the 
Society; On Dodder, by W. Carruthers, F.R.S.; Annual 
Report of the Consuiting Chemist for 1871 ; Quarterly Report of 
the Chemical Committee, December, 1872 ; Quarterly Report 
of the Principal of the Royal Veterinary College. 
THE death of Mr. J. A. Gordon, Superintendent of the Crystal 
Palace Gardens, is announced. Mr, Gordon was in part trained 
under Sir Joseph Paxtoa, and was well known as a contributor 
to the Gardener's Magazine. 
Mr. J. L. Happen, C.E., superintended the electric light 
arrangements on the occasion of the late /¢/es at Constantinople 
for the Sultan’s accession. The next morning on awaking he 
found himself quite blind. The medical men had hopes of his 
restoration to sight. 
THE additions to the Zoological Society’s Gardens during the 
past week include a Rock-hopper Penguin (Zudyples chryso- 
coma), from the Falkland Islands, presented by Mr. J. M. Dean; 
a tuberculatei Lizard (Jguvana tuberrulata), from the West 
Indies, presented by Mr. J. B. Spence; a Greater Sulphur- 
crested Cockatoo (Cacatua yaleritx),from Australia, presented by 
Mr. R. Dean; four black-necked Swans (Cygnus nigricollis) 
hatched in the Gardens; a Beaver (Castor canadensis), born in 
the Gardens ; two crimson-faced Waxbills (Pytelia melba), from 
Africa ; a Tawny Eagle (Aguila naevioides), purchased ; a black- 
tailed Antelope (Nanotragus nigricaudatus), an Ariel Toucan 
(Ramphastos arid), and a West India Rail (Aramides Cayen- 
nensis), deposited. 
