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NOTES. 
We learn that the last work of Mr. Frank Buckland, completed 
two days before his death, and now published by the Society for 
Promoting Christian Knowledge, contains certain new arguments 
against the dodbrine of Evolution. 
According to the “ Medical Press and Circular ” the latest 
phase of the agitation for the suppression of physiological re- 
search is an “ Anti-Vivisedbion Prayer Meeting,” which was 
recently held in Nicholson Street Hall, Edinburgh. 
M. Ch. Robin, in a communication to the Academy of Sciences, 
shows that well-marked sexual differences exist in eels, and that 
there are no grounds for supposing them to be hermaphrodites. 
M. Alph. Milne-Edwards (“ Comptes Rendus,” 1881, p. 384), 
in summarising the results of deep-sea dredgings in the Carib- 
bean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, remarks that, on comparing 
the abysmal with the littoral animals, we seem to have before us 
two distindb faunae belonging to different epochs and climates. 
The animals of the shore deposits belong to higher types, whilst 
those of the depths have a more ancient charadber ; some of 
them present plain affinities with the fossils of the secondary 
epoch, whilst others recal the larval state of certain recent 
species. 
In the same journal M. Bouilland demonstrates that the cere- 
bellum is the nervous centre which co-ordinates the movements 
necessary for standing and for locomotion. 
M. H. Viallanes, in a memoir on the histolysis of Dipterous 
larvae during their post-embryonic development (“ Comptes 
Rendus,” February, 1881), shows that the muscles are destroyed 
at the moment when the larva passes into the pupa condition. 
M. A. Certes (“ Comptes*“Rendus,” Feb., 1881) finds that Infu- 
soria may be coloured a pale blue by means of a weak solution 
of quinoleine blue or cyanine, though they continue to live for 
twenty-four or thirty-six hours after. Quinoleine blue is emi- 
nently the microscopic reagent for fatty matter. The notion that 
the living cell is impermeable to colouring reagents must be 
abandoned. 
According to M. Ch. Brame pure hydrocyanic acid remains 
undecomposed in the tissues of poisoned animals for a month, 
and is less easily removed by distillation from the bodies of the 
Carnivora than from those of the Herbivora. 
