THE SCIENTIST. 
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It is curiotis how school boys, and 
even men, will take up the most intri- 
cate subjects for an impromptu discus- 
sion; in other words, talk off hand 
of things they know least about. 
Something of this kind happened at 
the last meeting (Aug. 4th) of the Acad- 
emy of Science. One member spoke of 
having seen clippings from a country 
newspaper in New Jersej^ as far back 
as 18.S7, in which the writer advocated 
t!ie unity of heat, light and electricity. 
I'iie same speaker related some recent 
experiments of a professor of Physics in 
one of the Universities in this country, 
in which vibrations in a wire of given 
length at increasing rate per second, lirst 
gave off sound from the lowest to the 
highest pitch, then gave ofi* heat with 
a dull red glow of the wire, and finally 
light, with the wire incandescent. 
Another member called attention to 
the property of Selenium, of giving off 
sound from rays of light falling on it, 
the tone varying with the color of the 
light. 
Another, to the generalization of 
Cooke in his '"New Chemistry." "That 
matter was indestructable and measured 
by weight." '-Force indestructable and 
measured by work." 'Tntelligence in- 
destructable and measured by adaptabi- 
lity" as contemplating all the phases of 
nature. He further said as none of the 
forms of matter known to us, even the 
elements, are the primary form, in like 
manner probably no one of the physical 
forces is the inotiier of all the rest, but 
all one, the result of something that 
had gone before. Further, that our 
senses are only adjusted to secure a small 
part of the vibrations in nature, and 
consequently we soon reach the limita- 
tion of our knowledge. 
