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will not be misled into attaching very serious importance to what 
Miss Cobbe’s prejudices may lead her to express.” 
The “ Lancet ” remarks that “to the intelligent student of the 
medical sciences Berkeleyism supplies the only key that will un- 
lock a world of mystery.” 
The new Chair of Anatomy and Physiology in the University 
of Sydney is to be held by Dr. T. P. Anderson-Stuart. 
It is announced that a Ledture on “ Healthy Motherhood ” is 
to be delivered during the ensuing winter before the Young Men’s 
Christian Association of Glasgow. 
Sweeping charges of cowardice are being brought against the 
London press for having wholly or in part “ suppressed ” a cer-‘ 
tain letter from Charles Darwin to a student at Jena. How many 
scientific or philosophic journals have had the option of “ sup- 
pressing ” it ? 
MM. Deherain and Muntz find that nitrates in arable soils are 
reduced by anaerobic organisms, which thus play an inverse part 
to the aerobic microbia which are the agents of nitrification. 
