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gical elements of the lymphatic glands and spleen when examined 
with the needful precautions, instead of being found _ “entical 
w th the ordinary white blood corpuscles are found to be 
disks of the same size as the red corpuscles which are gra- 
dually becoming biconcave. As the body which undergoes co 
version into aired corpuscle must be “ *e anafogue 
of the white corpuscle of the ovipara, it follows that in mammals 
this is the corpuscle of the glands and spleen and their equiva- 
ent the invisible corpuscle of the blood, and not the ordinary 
white corpuscle as supposed. The latter is probably a mere 
accidental aggregate of adhesive lymph corpuscles 
Mr H. W. Crosskey communicates some notes on glacia 
phenomena in the Vosges Mountains, which are ubiquitous and 
The Rev. H. W. Watson gives a very fair survey of the re- 
searches of Mr. Crookes on molecular motion in rarefied gases. 
Dr Blake’s paper on the conneftion between general and 
technical education contains many valuable observations, and 
gives a brief but valuable account of industrial' training in : B 
| urn France, Prussia, and Austria. He rightly sees that the 
apprenticeship system has had its day, and survives now as a 
mere nuisance. But the author is strangely mistaken in saying 
that “ a premium is seldom paid, and consequently! k® 1 l f, 
it to be his business to look after or to inform the ’ 
The very contrary is the fadt : premiums are more common now 
than in the days when apprenticeship was a useful reality, but 
the money Aus paid is in the majority of cases literally obtained 
nndw false pretences. The chief danger to be apprehended in 
all attempt^ made to give the British workman a higher and 
more SfiT training is that, instead of teaching him to do 
anything thoroughly, we shall cram him to pass an examinatio 
m Under the title “ Our Philosophy and our Life,” Mr. J. Ken- 
ward gives an estimate of the influence of scientific research on 
prevailing thought and charafter in England. Whilst admitting 
the^earnfng^and in some respeas the depth of thought, shown 
n this Essly, we can by no means give it our unqualified ap- 
proval. The author takes decidedly too rose-coloured a view of 
the relative position of England in the culture of Science. Our 
discoverers, indeed, are surpassed by XUserf GemlwSS 
thev have risen, but in comparison with those ot Germany tney 
are few indeed. Few they must remain so long as 
discourage original investigation by refusing to accept it as a 
Jassport to honours and positions in our 
seums Mr. Kenward’s survey of the state of bc i e * ce 
England —which, by the way, contrasts strangely with that give 
bv Dr G M. Beard in our February number,— if P eru ^ 
anvone not conversant with the history of discovery, would lead 
him to believe that our country can claim the merit of the recent 
