822 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



The invention of the Microscope and Telescope has not only contri- 

 buted to open out a new sphere to us so vast that we cannot yet realize 

 its extent, but it has also shown us the contrast which exists between 

 our mental faculties and the fertility of nature ; we have here an evident 

 proof that the imagination, however potent it may at first appear, is only 

 rich in combinations of known things ; it forms combinations of great 

 variety, often fantastic and unnatural ; it can magnify or reduce images 

 to any extent ; but from its own source it extracts nothing that is really 

 new ; and however inventive it may imagine itself to be, it would discover 

 nothing if nature did not supply exami)les." 



Brain Markings. 



[" A well-known New York physician lias just published the sort of discovery 

 which Lord Lytton would have made a novel out of. An aged Polish count, 

 formerly professor of languages and a famous oriental scholar, died in the 

 hospital, and Dr. Kookwood had occnsiou, in conjunction with other experts, 

 to make a niicroscopical examinalion of a certain part of tlie cerebrum. 

 They noticed a peculiar set of markings, which took the form of Egyptian 

 and Chinese hieroglyphics. These were amplified to a magnitude of 3000 

 diameters, and the results shown to anothei- oriental scholar, who declared 

 them to be true characters in the Ethiopic, Syriac, and Egyptian languages. 

 Dr. Rookwood suggests that his discovery will lead to extracting from the 

 dead their literary achievements as well as their suppressed opinions."] 



Sci.-Gossip, 1888, p. 67. 



Conservirung von Zeichnnngen. (Preserving drawings.) 



[Lay the drawing on a flat surface and pour over it collodion in which 2 per 

 cent, of steariue has been dissolved. In twenty minutes it is dry and iixed.] 



Neueste Erfind. u. Erfahr., 18S7, p. 571. 



Dallinger, Eev. W. H.— Memoir. Research, 1. (1888) pp. 40-1 (portrait). 



Dallinger, Dr., Presentation to. 



[" ' All Siieffield,' of any public note, took its leave of Dr. and Mrs. Dallinger 

 in the Council Chamber of the cutleiy metropolis on Tuesday. The IMayor, 

 on behalf of numerous subscribers, presented Mrs. Dallinger with a silver 

 tray, and the Dr. with a substantial sum of money, the value of tiie gifts 

 being enhanced by the kindest expressions of regard for the recipients. 

 The Mayor regarded Dr. Dallinger'a removal from the town almost as a 

 public calamity. The Doctor said that since he came to Sheffield he had been 

 privileged with companionship and friendships and intercourse which had 

 made his life, that was full of labour, equally full of sweetness. His labour 

 during the past eight years had not been barren ; some work had been 

 accomplished. He had been enabled, by increasingly powerful instruments, 

 to penetrate still further and further down, but so far as this portion of his 

 life had been serviceable to science, it had been more powerful than it 

 otherwise could have been because he was surrounded by such friends and 

 Buch interests in this never-to-be-forgotten town. He thanked them for the 

 present to his wife, without whose constant assistance he could never have 

 performed the work that had been done at Wesley College. The gift to 

 himself would bs devoted to the purchase of any new instrument that he 

 required, so long as it lasted. He had been working in a department of 

 science that had been absolutely untouched, and he was constantly finding 

 that something was wanting that was not existing in scientific Instruments 

 before. It was a source of joy to him that through its gift Sheffield would 

 be permanently represented on the scientific side of his house."] 



Christian World, Aug. 16, 1888. 



Frits OH, G.— See Neumayer, G., infra. 



Gosse, P. H., Eon. F.E.M.S.— Obituary. Athenseum, 1888, Sept. 1, pp. 29i-5. 



Gray, Asa, Hon. F.E.M.S.— Obituary. Nature, XXXVII. (18S8) pp. 375-7. 



[Manton W. p., and others. — Use and Abuse of the Microscope.] 



(_" Dr. E. L. Nealey, of Bangor, read a paper on the ' Use and Abuse of the 

 Microscope ' before the recent meeting of the Maine Medical Society. Our 

 experience leads us to think that most physicians abuse the instrument by 

 not usmg it."] The Microscope, VIII. (1886) p. 217. 



