1204 General Notes. 
ipulated. Professor Putnam, while correcting the misconceptions 
of early writers, pays a just tribute to their zeal, and rejoices that 
we are now able to see with clearer eyes than those who lived in 
the days when nearly every fact observed was thought worthless 
unless it could be immediately accounted for, and the unknown 
became intelligible by the application of the power of the imag- 
ination. ) 
bodily measures came subsequently into use, such as the Spa 
pace, yard (Saxon gyrdan, to girdle), fathom (Saxon Fadhm, 10 
embrace). From the earliest periods sculptors, painters, amt 
mists and geometricians have exerted surprising ingenuity in © 
vising schemes of human proportion, and to these schena 
are indebted for the preservation of ethnic characteristics. i 
Fletcher has collected the literature of these systems, ane © 
urements obtains the mean. Art and anthropometry, na i 
are to some extent antagonistic. Art seeks for the ee: 
idealizes; anthropometry seeks for the real and n pages 
Fletcher has added to his very interesting lecture a 
bibliography, and refers to page 441 of the first n un 
Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon Generals Wi 
a copious bibliography of anthropometry. K 
TREATMENT OF PeLracıc Fish Ecos.—The transpa yri 
_ various Teleostei found floating on the surface of the sea f ursi 
unusual difficulties in the way of hardening. I ye have faile 
to all the fluids commonly used for this purpose, R pven the 
to find any satisfactory method of hardening the r the ordi 
germinal disk cannot be well preserved by any ° acid, for 
hardening agents, Kleinenberg’s picro-sulphuric is 
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