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fication ’—1. e. presentment in typical clearness, with everything 
accidental or confusing withdrawn—in that Heiterkeit and 
Allgemeinheit which, as Winckelmann says, are the two cha- 
racteristics of the Greek ideal. As in Sculpture, as in Tragedy, 
so in Music, this process would be a means, not necessarily of 
softening, but often of intensifying, by the simple and con- 
centrated expression of feelings or issues from which the vulgar, 
the spurious, the petty, the falsely sentimental have been de- 
tached. What Tragedy does in the sphere of action, mpdaéis, 
this Music does in the sphere of that normal imitation, 7)0v«7) 
6olwots, which is its own. Aristotle’s view as to the universal — 
moral importance of music as an element in education seems to 
be enforced by some of those phenomena of the present day 
which shew how a repressed and uneducated sensibility may 
become ungovernable; though, since music has been set on a 
really scientific basis, his plea that it is necessary to be a per- 
former in order to be an intelligent listener has no longer its 
Greek validity. 
May 31, 1875. 
Tur PRESIDENT (PROFESSOR BABINGTON) in the Chair. 
The following paper was read by Mr F. M. Batrour, of 
Trinity College. 
On the Segmental Organs of Vertebrates. 
The author stated that the recent investigations of Professor 
Semper and himself had led to the discovery that in the 
selachians the kidneys were developed from a series of primi- 
tively independent structures. Each of these was a tube opening 
at one end into the body-cavity and ending blindly at the 
other. These tubes corresponded in number with the proto- 
