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p. 209). ‘Literature abounds in poetical allusions to the wisdom of birds, 
to the warnings they desire to deliver, to the tidings they are ever ready 
to carry. ‘ We bear our civil swords and native fire,’ says Prince John 
(2 Hen. IV. v. 5), ‘as far as France, I heard a bird so sing. ‘ Curse not 
the king,’ says the Preacher, ‘ for a bird of the air will carry the matter’ 
(Keel. x. 20). Such allusions are poetical only; but the voices that 
primeval man heard, primeval whether in time or only in civilization, were 
as real to him as the visions he saw. The history of demonology con- 
clusively declares them to have been neither romance nor make-believe.” 
As the author further remarks, ‘“‘ It was natural that in different countries 
men should have been attracted by different orders of birds. Ths Gralla- 
tores, or Waders, whilst they were esteemed throughout the Old World, were 
chiefly venerated in Egypt; and the same may be said of the Accipitres, 
such as Kagles, Hawks, and Vultures. The Columb were much admired 
in the East; and of the Passeres, the suborder Conirostres found most 
favour in Europe.” The subject is a most interesting one; we all recall 
the Bennu (Ardea bubulcus), sacred among the ancient Egyptians to Osiris, 
and the use of the Dove in early Christian art. 
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‘ SclENcE’ announces the death of the eminent entomologist, Dr. George 
H. Horn, at Philadelphia, on Nov. 25th last, at the age of fifty-eight. He 
has bequeathed his valuable entomological collections and books and an 
endowmert of 200 dols. per annum to the American Entomological Society. 
From the residuary estate, after the death of his sister, further bequests 
will accrue to the Entomological and other scientific societies. Dr. Horn 
was a renowned coleopterist, and was a contributor to Godman and Salvin's 
‘ Biologia Centrali-A mericana.’ 
JOHANNES F'RENZEL, formerly Professor of Zoology at Cordoba Uni- 
versity, in the Argentine Republic, and of late years director of the biolo- 
gical and fishery station on the Miiggelsee, near Berlin, died on Oct. 21st, 
owing to an accident on the lake. Dr. Frenzel was only thirty-nine years 
old at the time of his death —Natural Science. 
Since the advent of the rinderpest at Groote Schuur, Mr. Rhodes’s 
weil-known residence at the Cape, the following animals have died of the 
disease: —One Eland Bull, one Koodoo, one Hartebeeste, one Klipspringer, 
one Steinbuck, and one Antelope. One Eland Cow, which took rinderpest 
and was inoculated, has since recovered. 
