1867.] The Progress of Science Abroad. 361 



was commenced we have watched it closely, and its development will 

 be found noted from time to time in our Agricultural and Chemical 

 Chronicles. But now it ceasas to be an experimental, and becomes 

 a practical National movement, which deserves and will command 

 the sanction and support of every sanitarian, of every agriculturist, 

 and perhaps, before long, of too many needy speculators. Out of 

 evil cometh good, and if the next mania should be for " Utilization 

 of Sewage Company's Shares,!' and it should even ruin a few here 

 and there, the ultimate result of the periodical attack, should it 

 manifest itself under this aspect, would be beneficial to the great 

 mass of the population. 



Let us, however, trust that no such means will be resorted to 

 for pushing the national enterprise; let us rather hope that a 

 growing sense of responsibility on the part of the guardians of 

 health in our large towns, and the anxiety to utilize every foot of 

 land and every blade of grass will contribute to bring about so 

 desirable a change as that now commencing in our sanitary and 

 agricultural arrangements. 



It is hardly necessary to add, that the movement will be watched 

 by us in the future, as it has been in the past, with earnest anxiety 

 for its success, and that whenever or wherever any new development 

 may present itself, it will always be hailed with satisfaction and 

 encouraged to the utmost of our limited powers. 



VII. THE PEOGBESS OF SCIENCE ABBOAD. 



1. Sesion Publico,, Aniversario vigesimo-septimo del Institute 



Medico Valenciano. Valencia : Imprenta de D. Jose M. Garin. 



2. Geology and Agriculture. By E. St. John Fairman, F.G.S., 



F.B.G.S., &c. Florence : printed by G. Barbera. 



3. Experimental Investigations connected with the Supply of Water 



from the Hooghly to Calcutta. By David Waldie, Esq., F.C.S. 

 From the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



4. Intercolonial Exhibition of 1866 — Mining and Mineral Sta- 



tistics. By E. Brough Smyth, F.G.S. Lond., &c. Melbourne : 

 BlundeU & Ford. 



5. The American Naturalist — a Popular Illustrated Magazine of 



Natural History. Salem : Essex Institute (Triibner & Co., 

 London). 



How apt we all are to confine our observations on every subject to 

 the limited sphere in which we are daily accustomed to move. 



The artist rarely troubles himself about the productions of any 

 pencil but his own, or that of his immediate neighbour ; seldom 

 does the litterateur of one country watch and make himself ac- 



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