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his partial adherence to views which on subsequent study he cannot 

 accept. Within the limits of space now at our command we can 

 merely call attention to the attractive papers now referred to, and 

 express the hope that the phylogenetic aphorisms may soon be 

 placed before our readers in a convenient form. g. l. g. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. British Association for the Advancement of Scieyice. — The 

 annual meeting of the British Association was held at Liverpool 

 during the week beginning September 14th. The gathering was 

 a notable one in various respects; as regards size it ranked 

 among the largest, the attendance aggregating nearly 3200. Much 

 interest was aroused by the inaugural address, delivered by the 

 President, Sir Joseph Lister, upon the germ theory and antiseptic 

 methods in surgery. Other important addresses were delivered 

 before the several sections, as that by Prof. J. J. Thomson upon 

 the Rontgen rays, reprinted in part (from Nature) in the present 

 number. This subject also formed the theme of numerous papers 

 in the physical section. 



The next meeting is appointed for August, 1897, at Toronto, 

 Canada, under the Presidency of Sir John Evans. This will be 

 held simultaneously with the meeting of the American Associa- 

 tion at Detroit, and arrangements have already been made for an 

 exchange of courtesies between the two scientific bodies. The 

 meeting for 1898 is to be held at Bristol, and that for 1899 at 

 Dover, the latter in conjunction with the meeting of the French 

 Association appointed for Boulogne on the opposite side of the 

 British Channel. 



2. Report of the Sixth Meeting of the Austimlasian Association 

 for the Advancejnent of Science, held at Brisbane, Queensland, 

 January, 1895. Editor, John Shirley. 875 pp. Sydney, 1896. — 

 This volume, recently received, contains the record of the meet- 

 ing of the Australasian Association at Brisbane, Queensland, in 

 January, 1895. It includes the various Presidential addresses 

 and also a considerable part of the long list of papers presented and 

 grouped under the usual sections. 



3. Ostwald's Klassiker der Exacten Wissenschaften. — The 

 following are the titles of the most recent additions to Ostwald's 

 valuable collection of scientific classics : 



Nr. 76. Theorie der Doppelten Strahlenbrechimg, abgeleitet aus den G-leich- 

 ungen der Mechanik von F. E. Neumann (1832). 52 pp. 



Nr. 17. Ueber die Bildung und die Eigensehaften der Determinanten. (De 

 formatione et proprietatibus Determinantium.) Von C. (t. J. Jacobi (1841). 7.3 pp. 



Nr. 78. Ueber die Functionaldeterminanten (De determinantibus functionali- 

 bus). Von C. (^. J. Jacobi (1841). 72 pp 



Nr. 79. Zwei Hydrodynamische Abhandlaogen von H. Helmholtz. I, Ueber 

 Wirbelbewegungen (1858). II, Ueber discontinuirliehe Fliissigkeitsbev^^egungea 

 (1868). 79 pp. 



