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closed granules of hæmatosine. Although the existence in the blood of 
these large cells containing red globules is nothing new, nevertheless 
Cornil is the first to insist upon their multiplication in typhoid fever. 
The mesenteric glands, according to Cornil, are always inflamed in 
typhoid fever, in a manner analogous to the acute or subacute inflamma- 
tion due to suppurative lymphangitis. — The Medical Record, from Lyon 
Médicale. : 
James W. Queen & Co.— This well-known firm has been once 
more dissolved, Mr. Cheyney carrying the department of philosophical 
apparatus with him to Bond Street, New York city. The remaining 
partners, S. L. Fox and W. H. Walmsley, retain the microscopical branch 
of the business at the old stand and under the old name. Microscopists 
will find G. S. Woolman in charge of their department at the New York 
store. 
RAPHIDES IN ENcHANTER’s N IGHTSHADE. — The Bulletin of the 
Torrey Botanical Club suggests sections of the enchanter’s nightshade 
(Circea Lutetiana L.) as an interesting microscopical study, the leaves, 
stem, and root being crowded with raphides, and the cells of the pith being 
filled with small transparent ball-like bodies. 
A POLARISCOPE OBJECT. — Hairs of common gromwell (Lithosper- 
mum officinale L.) are said to polarize beautifully under the microscope. 
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SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
— The following remarks by the editor of Nature, though referring 
to science in England, are not perhaps out of place in an American 
Journal ; — 
“ By looking to general science, again, the government avoids the 
difficulties which must necessarily accompany, with all the fluctuations 
of trade, any attempt to teach applied science except in some very gen- 
eral forms. The fact is that the practical applications of science bring 
their own reward, and need no extraneous encouragement ; instruction 
and invention in them may very well, and without the least hardship, be 
left to those whose pockets they fill. Art receives ample encouragement, 
and is well rewarded by the nation ; let but an artist in any department 
show himself capable of producing good work, and he will soon find 
that both the government and private individuals have plenty of rewards 
es bestow upon him. Science, on the other hand, receives not a penny 
in the way of assistance or reward, and yet the scientific investigator is 
the nation’s servant and greatest benefactor. Pure scientific research is 
at present, like virtue, its own reward; the man who devotes himself to 
such research, unless he has some other means of gaining a livelihood, 
is likely enough to starve, for all the help he will get from his country ; 
and yet, as it has been shown over and over again, our country’s pros- 
