334 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
The noes of ee Society is Mr. F. F. Hilder, 604 North 
Fourth ih , dt. Lo 
4, Win iieadioat of Hygiene and es Science. 
edition, cisnoaa and iy oes 490 pp. 12mo. Philadelphia, 
1877. (Lindsay and Blakiston.)—Dr. Wilson’s well-know _— 
h 
subjeets are treated in a systematic manner and — style makes 
— reading of even the most technical portion 
5. British Association.—The meeting of the British ‘Association 
for 1877, Sate at Plymouth, on Wednesday, the 15th of August, 
and the address of the Oe aM Professor Allen Thomson, — 
xalto 
befor ae 
before that of Ge rai Se are eeianecba on the ner ae pages 
of this volume, from ature of August 16 and 23. Sir William 
Thomson presented a paper advocating _ doctrine suggested 
ecome the vehicle of animal life to this earth sre another planet 
or heavenly body, and “ was evidently listened to with much enjoy- 
ment.” Much amusement was caused by his saying that “though 
the outside shell of a meteoric stone might be incandescent from the 
riction caused by its flight through the terrestrial —— 
fet within a crevice of that stone might be concealed a Colora 
eetle, oe falling ie" a earth, might become the 25 IN of a 
lar isbeliever in the doctrine, 
Profeme: ot Haughton, followed ‘with sWjecticiet; but said “ re still 
he didn’t care how many papa beetles came, so long as the mamma 
were the following: on the rate of on ea of groups of waves, 
and the rate at which wa is transmitted by waves, by Osborne 
Reynolds; on the effect of transverse stress on the magnetic sus- 
ceptibility of iron, by Sir Wm. Thomson; unit of light for pho- 
ium 
°s structure, by Professor —— 
It was decided that the fiftieth or jubilee meeting of the Asso- 
ciation—in 1881—be held in York, in consideration of the fact 
that its first meeting—that of 1831—-was at that place. 
