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[June, 
We learn that Mr. G. Benn, of Glenravel House, Co. Antrim, 
has presented the valuable cohesion of antiquities formed by 
his brother, the late Mr. E. Benn, to the Belfast Museum. 
S. A. Forbes, of Normal, Illinois, having shot and opened 
twenty-five sparrows, found that at a season when 30 per cent of 
the food of the robin, 20 per cent of that of the cat-bird, and 
90 per cent of that of the blue bird, consisted of insedts, the 
stomachs of the sparrows did not contain more than 6 per cent 
of insedts. 
The muster-roll of the Royal Commission on the Medical Adis 
will excite astonishment in foreign countries. It comprises the 
Earl of Camperdown, the Bishop of Peterborough, Sir G. Jessel, 
Mr. Sclater-Booth, Mr. W. Cohen, Prof. Bryce, Sir W. Jenner, 
Prof. Huxley, Mr. Simon, Prof. Turner, and Dr. R. McDonnel. 
Only four medical men ! 
Dr. Dowse, in his work “ The Brain and Diseases of the 
Nervous System,” says “ Brain exhaustion from over-study and 
so-called cramming is perhaps one of the greatest social evils of 
modern times, and is simply a blot upon advancing civilisation.’ 
According to M. Voitellier, rabies in dogs is more common in 
the male sex than in the female, in the proportion of 100 to 14. 
A Microscopical Society is about to be established at Car- 
lisle. 
The “ Monthly Magazine of Pharmacy,” in reviewing Prof. 
St. George Mivart’s recent work “ The Cat,” remarks — “ How- 
ever much we may differ from him (the author) in his Darwinian 
proclivities, and certain other of his philosophical opinions,” &c. 
We should think anyone reading Mr. Mivart’s “ Lessons from 
Nature ” would pronounce his proclivities decidedly anti- 
Darwinian. 
M. Turpin has laid before the French Academy of Medicine a 
series of 1440 pigments, suitable for children’s toys, and all of 
them free from poisonous matter. 
According to the “ American Journal of Microscopy,” red blood 
corpuscules were detected in eleven out of twenty specimens of 
vaccine lymph. 
We were misinformed when we stated that Dr. Beale’s late 
Presidential Address would not be printed. It appears in full in 
the “Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society.” 
H. H. Howarth, in his paper on the Mammoth in Europe 
(“ Geological Magazine ”), points out that the terms Europe and 
Asia are purely artificial, and correspond to nothing in physical 
geography. Between the two there is no botanical or zoological 
barrier. 
