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vascular dilatation. The motor nerves are en- 

 tirely unaffected. The red blood corpuscles 

 are often rendered spherical by the poison, 

 and, outside the body at least, the blood may 

 be laked. The secretion of urine is stopped. 

 Death usually results from respiratory paral- 

 ysis, though, in case artificial respiration is 

 maintained, death ensues from cardiac failure. 

 Lafayette B. Mendel communicates four brief 

 contributions to physiological chemistry from 

 the Sheffield Laboratory of Yale Univer- 

 sity. In the first of the papers Professor Mendel 

 gives an analysis of three species of West 

 Indian corals examined for iodine and declares 

 that for many organisms Iodine is as essential 

 an element as is chlorine for others. The 

 second paper, ' Glycogen formation after inulin 

 feeding,' by R. Nakaseko, concludes with the 

 statement that for the rabbit at least, the gly- 

 cogen-forming properties of inulin must still be 

 regarded as uncertain or minimal. G. A. Han- 

 ford's work on ' The influence of acids on the 

 amylolytic action of saliva,' shows the im- 

 possibility of designating any percentage of 

 acid or alkali which inhibits salivary digestion 

 in a definite degree. The absolute amount of 

 saliva and the attendant variation in the quan- 

 tity of proteid matter present determine the 

 character of the action. Free hydrochloric 

 acid is certain to cause more or less complete 

 inhibition of salivary action. The fourth con- 

 tribution, by J. H. Goodman, ' On the connec- 

 tive tissue in muscle ' is an account of experi- 

 ments proving that the substance in muscle 

 connective tissue described by Schepilewsky as 

 mucin, is neither a glycoproteid nor a nucleo- 

 proteid, but resembles the stroma substance de- 

 scribed by J. von Holmgren. B. Moore and 

 W. H. Parker report a study of the effects 

 of complete removal of the mammary glands 

 on the formation of lactose. This research 

 consists of an examination of the urine for 

 sugar during gestation and at the time of 

 parturition after complete extirpation of the 

 mammary glands. If lactose be formed else- 

 where than in the mammary glands it should 

 appear in the blood at parturition and hence in 

 the urine. The mammary glands of two goats 

 were removed after several weeks of gestation. 

 Parturition took place normally in both cases 



and the urine contained no reducing sugar. 

 The authors believe that lactose is formed in 

 the cells of the mammary gland and not from 

 any intermediate substance carried to the gland 

 by the blood. 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESFONDENCE. 



THE COPYRIGHT OP UNIVEESITY LEOTTJEBS. 



To THE Editor op Science : In comment- 

 ing on the decision of the House of Lords in 

 the Times v. Lane case, you say (Science, 

 Aug. 24,p. 319), " Perhaps the lectures given to 

 a class of students, * * * are not made public. ' ' 

 On appeal from the Supreme Court of Scotland, 

 this was, however, decided by the House of 

 Lords just fifteen years ago, in the famous case 

 of Caird v. Sime. Sime was a second-hand 

 bookseller in Glasgow, who sold many text- 

 books to the students of that University. He 

 conceived the idea that he might turn a penny 

 by getting the lectures of Edward Caird, pro- 

 fessor of moral philosophy, then the most in- 

 fluential teacher in the University, and publish- 

 ing them. He did so. The Scotch Courts de- 

 cided against Caird, but on appeal to the House 

 of Lords the decision was reversed, and a pro- 

 fessor or lecturer was held to have his own 

 copyright. It is curious to note, looking to the 

 decision of the Scottish Court in the Caird case, 

 that the minority in the Times case in the House 

 of Lords was the Scottish member of the Court 

 of Final Appeal. K. M. Wenlby. 



THE INTBENATIONAL PSYCHICAL INSTITUTE. 



To THE Editoe of Science : Observing that 

 my name figures in Bulletin No. 1, July, 1900, 

 of the ' Institut Psychique International ' as 

 the member of the Council of Organization for 

 America, I find myself compelled to state pub- 

 licly that this appearance of my name is unau- 

 thorized. William James. 



Nauheim, August 24, 1900. 



THE FRENCH ASSOCIATION FOB THE AD- 

 VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 

 It appears diflicult to secure any information 

 in regard to the French Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science. We have been unable to 

 get programs by addressing the officers of the 



