798 Scientific News. [December, 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
— The council of the Entomological Society of London are 
authorized by Lord Walsingham and other gentlemen interested 
n pa diseases of British game-birds, to offer to public competi- 
n the following prizes: £50 for thé best and most complete 
if history of Sclerostoma syngamus Dies., supposed to produce 
so called “ i 
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cilis Cob., supposed to cau grouse disease. No life oe 
will be considered seer unless the igi stages of ee 
opment are observed and recorded. The competition is open t 
naturalists of all nationalities. The same ph ee may anne 
for both sre ben says in English, French, or German to be 
sent in on o D 15, 1882, addressed to the secretary 
of the v T a: street, Cavendish Square 
— At the Sheffield meeting of the British Associ ation, Dr. 
Crichton etl delivered an address on influence of domestica- 
tion on brain growth. He had found by y experiments that domes- 
tication had Bene reduced the brains of the „and he argued 
that men, like ducks, might be fed and housed, Bence about, and 
E E from participation in the life struggle until, like the 
t as tru ever t 
E to ila nd conflict, and it was not through sien an 
comfort that genuine civilization was attained, It was the civili- 
zation, not merely the domestication of mankind, that must be 
aimed at. 
— Next to the name of Dr. T. W. Harris that of Dr. Asa 
Fitch will be held in especial remembrance for his HEA and 
and to those of the present generation he was almost ney 
unknown. A biographical. sketch with a likeness, 
Thurston, a in the Popular Science Monthly for November. 
— W. unders, who died Sept. 13th, was one of the lead- 
ing English S of botany and entomology, being une- 
qualed:as a patron of natural science. He will be remembered 
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number of papers on entomology, botany and horticulture, 
— We have neglected to record the death, in April last, of Dr. 
Hermann Loew, who has been so voluminous and painstaking a 
a writer on Dipterous insects, and has described and monographed 
so many American flies, chiefly in the publications of the Smith- 
_sonian Institution. His collections are in the Cambridge Museum, 
