1882.] 
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has lately made herself conspicuous as an anti-vivisedlionist 
writer, is a believer in metempsychosis, and suggests that man- 
eating tigers may be animated by the spirits of deceased cruel 
men, for ought we know, vivisedlors ! 
The “Lancet” combats the fashionable view that fog is a 
function of smoke, which gets worse as the quantity of fuel con- 
sumed in the metropolitan area increases. It maintains that the 
fogs in the “ thirties and forties” were as bad as those at the 
present day, if not worse. Friends of ours who recoiled! London 
as it was 40 or 50 years ago take the same view. 
A correspondent of “ La Nature,” a native of Guadeloupe, 
confirms, from personal observation, the report that the males of 
Dynastes Hercules seize small branches of trees between their 
enormous “ horns,” and then whirl round and round till the twig 
is amputated. No one seems to know the exadl objedt of the 
process, though it may be to set the sap flowing, which nume- 
rous insedts consume eagerly. 
In the Gardens of the Society of Acclimatisation at Paris there 
are at present two male hybrids, one between a Houdan cock and 
a Guinea hen, and the other between a Cochin China cock and 
a Turkey hen. Their morose and unsociable disposition has 
rendered it impossible to ascertain whether they are capable of 
reproduction. 
Mr. H. H. Howorth (“ Geological Magazine,”) adduces further 
evidences of an extensive post-glacial flood, accompanied probably 
with volcanic adtion. 
Prof. O. C. Marsh (“ Geological Magazine,”) gives a new 
arrangement of the Dinosaurians, which he views as a sub-class 
and divides into five orders, the Saurcpoda, Stagosauria, Ornitho- 
poda, Theropoda, and Hallopoda. 
“ Light ” gives a very curious account of a “ haunted house.” 
One of the most remarkable phenomena recorded is, that a flame 
of a gas-burner, placed opposite the foot of the bed occupied by 
the observer, without diminishing in size, gave out for some 
time an unusually small quantity of light. 
W. H. Edwards (“American Naturalist,”) has observed, that 
male butterflies of the species Heliconia charitonia , assemble to 
keep watch over female pupae of their own species. 
The same author, in refutation of a statement by Mr. Scudder, 
shows that the females of Argynnis myrina have fully developed 
eggs when they emerge from the chrysalis. 
The editors of the “ American Naturalist,” in reviewing Mr. 
J. G. Murphy’s “ Habit and Intelligence,” rightly — in our 
opinion — attribute to the lower animals the power of invention. 
Mr. Dieckmann (“ American Naturalist ”) states that tigers 
are plentiful throughout Siberia, wherej they remain through the 
