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TEACHING OF NATURAL SCIENCE IN cata ScHooLs.—In a paper 
read before the British Associa tion, Rev. W. Farrar “expressed his 
conviction of the necessity and desirability 2 extensive education in 
physical science.” Dr. Hooker Hooniidersd chemistry as too rigid a 
properly opened to them. The habit of verification by experiment, 
and the consciousness of a power of prediction, were most important 
characters to implant in the mind; but this could only be done by a 
true and philosophic study.” 
3 “att OF OBTAINING A NEW QUEEN BEE FROM WORKER-GRUBS. 
— Mr. Tegetmeier has described a practical application of Shirach’s dis- 
sien: respecting the power of bees to raise a new queen from a 
neuter or worker grub, by means of which the contents of old hives 
can be taken gaa LAS S the bees or sacrificing any brood :— 
“ The pla , and about half the bees in the spring, and 
establishing them as a new swarm, when the bees remaining in the old hive fave to raise 
a new slaw en from a worker grub. From the time required to accomplish this, it po 
no egg can be laid cee about three Weeks; by mis ume the workers, proceedi ng fro: 
, when 
the whole of the bees are to be driven out, and the honey, which will be found perfecti 
from brood, retained for use.” — P 
NoveL way or Smoorme Eaces. —Hunters find it a very easy 
matter to shoot the Bald Eagles, which are occasionally found in win- 
ter along the shores of Cayuga Lake. They approach the birds on 
horseback, to within fifteen or twenty yards, and then slide from the 
orse and shoot them at their leisure.—W. J. BEAL. 
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GEOLOGY. 
ORIGIN or Lire on our GLOBE. — With regard to the origin of life 
on our globe, M. Figuier does not dogmatize:—Did plants precede 
als, we cannot tell, but such would appear to have been the order 
of creation.” Our globe, he thinks, during the Cambrian and Silurian 
Trilobites not 
maint on the globe during the Cambro-Silurian period. ‘Those who 
