348 ; Scientific News, : (March, 
in future contributed will go to increase the power to make addi- 
tional grants for special researches. What the American com- 
mittee hope for, is not to raise a large sum of money but to obtain 
some small contribution from the majority of American biologists, 
whether investigators, professors or students. Some subscription, 
however small, from the members of each college and university 
in the United States where biological studies are carried on, would 
be a far more pleasing tribute to Balfour's, memory than larger 
gifts from fewer persons.” . 
— The Scientific American quotes from the Suz an account of the 
occurrence of a Filaria inthe eye of ahorsein Jersey City. The writer 
of the article says, “I do not believe that this parasite 1s ever found 
in human beings.” Filaria oculi is stated however in Moquin- 
Tandon’s Medical Zoology to be not uncommon in the negros 
on the Angola coast; “ itis also met with at Guadeloupe; it has ' 
been seen by Mongin at Cayenne, and by Blot at Martinique. 
“The /ilaria oculi resides in the lachyrmal gland and in the globe 
of the eye. In 1768, Bajou extracted one of these worms iro 
eye ofa young negress about. six or seven years of age. ~f 
Guyon extracted another from the eye of a negress IN Guiana. 
The worm is seen winding about and moving around the globe of ! 
the eye, in the cellular tissue which unites the conjunctiva w 
sclerotic. Sometimes its presence does not occasion any 
stant watering of the eye.” The Filaria of the erys ar 
(F. lentis) Diesing is found in that part of the eye. M. Norm 
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detected the Filariæ coiled up together, by means of the yen 
cope, half an hour after the operation for cataract. vog | 
at one time, received nearly as much of the solar light yi 
a 
The extensie 
coal-beds found in polar regions appear to show that her ne ‘ 
-c emity in Of 
as to heat and light the two poles, there was great uniformity ® dde 
planet’s vegetation, but about the Cenomanian epoch u a 
