Notes. 
797 
1880.] 
The professors of a College of Science should not be conserv- 
ative only, satisfied to hand down the stock of knowledge as they 
have received it, ‘ laid up in a napkin.’ Professors must try to 
add something, however little it may be, to the talent they have 
received.” 
The “ specific poison dodtrine ” is considered altogether inap- 
plicable to the history of enteric fever in India. Medical Press 
and Circular. 
In his Address at the inauguration of Sir Josiah Mason’s Col- 
leae, at Birmingham, Prof. Huxley pointed out “ how erroneous 
was the idea that a classical education alone could make a man 
of culture, and that the struggle which had for years been going 
on must end in placing the study of science and modern lan- 
guages at least upon an equal footing with classics as a means 
to culture. He believed if a man could not get literary culture 
out of his Bible, his Shakespeare, and his Milton, he would not 
get it from the profoundest study of Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, 
and Horace. 
The “ Monthly Magazine of Pharmacy ” considers “ Spirit- 
ualism like the confidence trick, so palpably a sham that those 
who are so weak-minded as to be deceived by it deserve all they 
get or lose.” 
H. Buchner has succeeded in effecting the reciprocal conver- 
sion of the Badleria of splenic fever into those generally found 
in infusions of hay. He has not yet succeeded in producing 
splenic fever with the unmodified hay Ba&eria. 
According to A. Renouard (“ Biedermann’s Central-Blatt fur 
Agrikultur Chemie), water in which flax has been steeped not 
only kills fish, but is injurious to vegetation. 
The following two modifications of Wickersheim’s fluid for 
the preservation of animal substances have been proposed, a being 
for injection and b for immersion 
a. b. 
Arsenious acid ... 
Common salt 
Sulphate of potash 
Nitrate of potash... 
Carbonate of potash 
Water 
Glycerin 
Methylic alcohol ... 
On October 28th the Literary and Philosophical Society of 
Halifax celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with— an operatic per- 
formance ! 
M. Delbceuf considers that there is no infallible and universal 
16 ounces 
12 ounces 
80 „ 
60 „ 
200 ,, 
15 ° ” 
25 
18 „ 
20 „ 
T 5 . « 
16 pints 
16 pints 
6 pts. 8 fl. ozs. 
6 pints 8 ozs. 
24 fl, ozs. 
16 fl. ozs. 
