1883.] ‘ Scientific News, 693 
— The question whether ostriches will breed in this State seems 
settled by what has occurred at Woodward's Gardens within the 
last few days. One of the female birds at that resort has com- 
menced laying eggs and bids fair to continue in the work for some 
time. The first was laid on Tuesday and the second yester- 
day. One of them weighs three and a-half pounds, is four 
and a-half inches in lateral diameter and seven inches in 
longitudinal diameter. The ostrich lays every alternate day 
a 
ose who have examined into ostrich farming are so confident 
of its success that a corporation has been formed for that pur- 
pose, with a capital stock of $30,000, all of it taken, called the 
California Ostrich Farming Company. A tract of 640 acres has 
also been secured on the old Abel Stearns ranch, near Ana- 
heim, in Los Angeles county, which will be under the superin- 
tendence of Dr. C. J. Sketchley, formerly of Cape Town and an 
5, paca ostrich farmer.—San Francisco Chronicle, March 2, 
1883. 
— Ina recent lecture delivered at Leeds, says the English Me- 
chanic, the Rev. W. H. Dallinger, F.R.S., spoke on the bearing of 
Strike them was that the two forms were actually alike, but the 
one might be inserted into the blood of a human patient and be 
perfectly harmless; whereas the other, if inserted into the blood 
of a human patient, would cause death; so that the function was 
absolutely unlike. 
Chall enger made her deepest sounding, of 3862 fathoms. It was 
inside a basin—that is, many hundred fathoms down it was 
‘nclosed by a ridge. The temperature of the water at this great 
ao ies Out of the four nests which I saw, three contained 22 eggs each, and the fourth 
in’s Zoology ofthe Beagle. The number 9 
