1196 General Notes. [November, 
the healthy ear in dogs which had been made absolutely deaf of 
their other ear, and then observed their hearing powers by means 
of the different notes of organ pipes between c and ¢””, On 
the third day after the immediate consequences of the ope 
tive interference had disappeared, it was found that the dogs 
responded perfectly to the notes c”, c", c’’’, c", but were dea 
to the deeper notes. This condition remained unaltered for 
weeks, and when the animal that had been the subject of experi- 
ment was killed, post-mortem examination showed that the top 
only of the cochlea had been wounded, and that the filaments of 
the auditory nerve that were distributed to that portion were 
sitiveness as that for the deep notes. e 
showed in these various aes different degrees of bagi 
occasioned by the operation. Herr Baginsky believes that if 
has by his experiments, in particular by the results of lesion ® 
the top of the cochlea, verified experimentally for the mammè 
lian cochlea the hypothesis of von Helmholtz.—Nature.  — 
PSYCHOLOGY. 
pleased beyond expression. Here was something a ie, life at 
old hash nor guess work ; here was a picture of inner i 
home, worth all that had been previously wig, ok over 
I could almost see him come out in the twilig 
ruined house, and then set to work to restore it. Ic orkig 
lay and relay the sticks of which it was composed, Wi to 
back and shoulders ached, and then sitting up a moment | k 
But the larger work on the dam just below was m1 eig 
in natural history it is our luck to fill out, “acknow Thy 
etc.,” that the whole merit belongs to a sportsman yee om 
seems, as you will see, under the circumstances of days 
have “risen from savage to civilized life.” A few - 
