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[May, 
M. Crova, in a paper read before the Academy of Sciences, 
shows that elevated temperatures can be measured by means of 
the spedtro-pyrometer — a modification of the spectroscope. 
Valdivine and cedrine, principles extracted from the so-called 
cedron-nuts, are utterly useless as a remedy for the bites of ser- 
pents and for hydrophobia. 
According to M. J. Chatin (“ Comptes Rendus ”) trichinae 
may occur, in the encysted state, in the fatty tissues of animals, 
as well as in their muscles. 
MM. J. Bechamp and E. Baltus, in a communication to the 
Academy of Sciences, prove that recent pancreatic microzymas 
injected into the blood of an animal occasion rapid death as soon 
as their proportion reaches o’oooi gramme per kilo, of its entire 
weight. 
M. Letourneau laid before the Societe d'Anthropologie, of 
Paris, some details concerning the sailor Pelletier. He had been 
shipwrecked when twelve years of age on the coast of Australia, 
and had become completely assimilated to the savages among 
whom he had lived. When questioned by the French Consul at 
Sydney, he wrote the name of his native place and that of his 
ship in one word. He tried to write to his father, but what he 
wrote had no meaning. In a few days he recollected some fifteen 
to twenty French words. 
From the reply of Mr. Gladstone to a society for the prevention 
of “ cruelty to animals,” there is just reason to fear that further 
restrictions will be put upon physiological research, the Liberals 
completing the evil work which the Conservatives began. “ A 
plague on both your houses ! ” 
We regret to learn the death of Mr. E. R. Alston, Secretary of 
the Linnean Society, and one of the contributors to the “ Biologio 
Centrali- Americana.” 
Science has sustained another loss in the decease of Mr. F. A. 
Nobert, well known for his delicate micrometers and test-plates. 
The “Medical Press and Circular” records the fate of a 
country woman who made cheese-cakes of arsenic, mistaking it 
for pounded rice ! 
The “ Revue Internationale des Sciences Biologiques ” criti- 
cises M. Pasteur very severely, noting especially the aureola seen 
under the microscope, apparently surrounding certain bacfteria. 
From the same journal we learn that M. Bouley, for whom a 
chair of comparative pathology has been just created at the 
Museum of Natural History, seems more pre-occupied with 
financial questions than with scientific research. 
