SCIEXTJFIC NEWS, 
tleman at Westminster school, who had been attended by Sir 
George Baker and Mr. Sutherland^ on account of a variety 
of anomalous nervous symptoms. These had wholly left 
him before I w^as consulted ] and the consultation with me 
was solely for the purpose of determining whether he might 
be permitted to make use of concave glasses, and to return 
to the business of the school. The patient’s health at that 
time not being perfectly restored, it was thought adviseable to. 
send him, for a few weeks, into the country, and to postpone-i 
the use of glasses. Tliis advice was followed j but in 1011 days 
the afflicted youth died suddenly. No anatomical examination' 
of the head was permitted by the relatives. It seems, however, 
probable, that the near-.sighteduess, as well as the previous in- 
disposition, no less than the death of the patient, were occa- 
sioned by the pressure of a morbid substance of some kind or 
other, on the source of the nerves in the brain. 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS, 
Oxides produced hy Electricity, 
inT’'HE fine figures produced oil paper by the explosion, and 
^ consequent oxidation of vaiious metals with an electrical 
battery, cannot be effectually represented by engravings. Mr. 
Singer has requested me to state, that it is his intemioii to illus- 
trate a few copies of his “ Elements of Electricity and Electro- 
Chemistry,” with some real specimens of the oxides, struck 
by his powerful apparatus'. Those who desire such copies may 
have them secured by au early transmission of their names to 
Mr. Singer. 
