1882.] 
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According to the “ Salina Journal ” (Kansas) a hailstone 
weighing 80 lbs. (!) was recently found near Salina. Many 
others, weighing 4 or 5 lbs. each, are said to have fallen on the 
same occasion. 
It is said that only man, the goat, and the wild Carnivora are 
able to resist the poison of the African tsetse fly. The supposed 
immunity of the ass is unfounded. 
According to M. Daubree (“ Comptes Rendus ”) earthquakes 
have probably their maximum at the new and full moon, and 
their minimum at the intermediate quarters of the lunation. 
The family of the late Prof. Balfour have presented his scien« 
tific library to the University of Cambridge for the use of the 
Morphological Laboratory. A memorial to the dead is in con- 
templation, but whether it will take the shape of a monument, a 
scholarship, or a prize for morphological research, is still unde- 
cided. 
The Victoria Street Bestiarians have issued a reply to Prof. 
Owen under the absurd title “ The Coward Science.” To com- 
pete with this body either in illogicality or abusiveness would be 
a hopeless task. 
We learn that a literary journal in the Irish tongue will shortly 
be issued. We wish it success, as every language is an im- 
portant piece of ethnological evidence, and as such worthy of 
preservation. It is to be regretted that the ancient Cornish 
tongue was allowed to become extincft. 
Intimations reach us that the “ Salvation Army ” is to be 
counted on as hostile to Science in general, and to Evolutionism 
in particular. Organised ignorance is, even in these days, a 
power not to be despised. 
Prof. Stokes is reported to have said, at the recent Church 
Congress at Derby, “ I prefer resting in the statement of a 
special creation, without prying into its method.” Is this a sci- 
entific attitude ? 
Our worthy contributor Prof. R. Galloway will, like Sir H. 
Davy, earn the title of a “ vera troublesome person in chemistry.” 
He is calling attention to the necessity of adding phosphate of 
potash to salt meats, as a preventive for sea-scurvy. But offi- 
cialism clings to lime-juice. 
Prof. Galloway has also pointed out the great facilities for 
obtaining iodine, bromine, and potash from sea-weeds on the 
west coast of Ireland. 
The “ American Medical News ” chastises Miss F. P. Cobbe 
for an attack on the medical profession. The “ Medical Press 
and Circular ” expresses the hope that u our Transatlantic friends 
