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rjuly, 
Dr. G. Wylde (“ Light ”) mentions as a curiosity the presence 
of Prof. E. Ray Lankester at a meeting of the “ Salvation 
Army,” where he seemed like a fish out of water. 
We learn that Prof. Tyndall has subscribed £50 to the pro- 
posed Carlyle monument. A friend of ours suggests that in so 
doing the learned professor has, to use an Irishism, “ turned his 
back upon himself.” 
M. Torcapel, in a communication to the Academy of Sciences, 
describes a number of mammalian remains found amidst volcanic 
debris at Aubignas, in Ardeche. Among the forms are Macha - 
irodon cidtridens, a large unknown cat, Hycenarctos , a rhinoceros, 
a H ip p avion, &c. 
The “ Medical Press and Circular,” in an article in favour of 
the re-forestation of India, gives faCts proving that cholera is far 
more deadly in the open country than in wooded districts. 
The fanatical enemies of physiological research have had a 
meeting in Edinburgh, and have shamelessly reproduced the 
statement that vivisection is “ scientifically unnecessary.” 
According to M. Danillo (“ Comptes Rendus ”) the progress of 
poisoning by absinthe presents a certain analogy with the effects 
of strychnine. 
MM. Arloing, Cornevin, and Thomas have proved that if a 
cow is inoculated against anthrax during gestation, her calf ob- 
tains immunity against the disease. 
MM. Paul Bert aud P. Reynard (“ Comptes Rendus ”) state 
that the peroxide of hydrogen, even when very dilute, arrests 
fermentations due to the development of living beings, and the 
putrefaction of all substances which do not decompose it. It 
has no aCtion upon the ferments of the diastase class. In a 
dilute state it is not destroyed by fatty bodies, starches, soluble 
ferments, egg-albumen, caseine, the peptones, creatine, creati- 
nine, and urea. It is quickly destroyed by collaginous matters, 
musculine, blood fibrine, and various nitrogenous vegetable prin- 
ciples. 
Two ships’ captains have mentioned to M. Knipping (“ Ciel et 
Terre”) an extraordinary oxidation of metals observed at the 
centre of a typhoon. He asks whether this phenomenon depends 
on an excessive production of ozone due to the friction of the 
air on liquid particles ? 
The new Society for Psychical Research is at work ; the first 
Report of its “ Thought-reading Committee ” has been made 
public. 
C. G. Massey (“ Psychological Review”) defines organism as 
“ the result of force beating down a path for itself.’ 
