56 Notes. [January, 
F. Miiller, of Santa Caterina, Brazil. This is the second known 
instance of viviparity among the Lepidoptera. 
At the same meeting was exhibited a fig-insedt ( Cynips ), re- 
ceived by Sir Sidney Saunders from Madagascar. In this species 
the intermediate pair of legs is wanting, being represented merely 
by a pair of rudimentary lobes. 
J. Reinke (“ Pfluger’s Archiv.”) concludes that there are no 
galvanic currents circulating in the living vegetable cell. This 
is in opposition to the view of Velten. 
According to Pflug (“ Centralblatt Med. Wissensch.”) pulmo- 
nary disease with the formation of tubercle is occasioned by 
microscopic Actinomyces. 
Prof. Just shows that the green parts of plants under the influ- 
ence of sunlight have not the power of decomposing carbonic 
oxide (carbon monoxide): On the contrary this gas has an 
injurious effebt upon plants, though less decidedly than upon 
animals. 
PI. Struckmann (“ Archiv. f. Anthropologie ”) gives an inte- 
resting account of the fossil bones in the “ Rhinoceros Cavern,” 
at Scharzfeld, in the Harz. It contains the remains of three 
distinbt and successive Faunas. 
By an oversight we omitted to notice in our last issue the 
death of the eminent meteorologist and seismologist, Prof. 
Palmieri. 
Prof. Kolbe has proved experimentally that beef, kept in an 
atmosphere of carbonic acid, remains sound and of a natural 
flavour for some weeks. Mutton, treated in the same manner, 
becomes offensive in about eight days. 
In addition to MM. Faye and Hirn, Dr. D. Tommasi takes 
objections to the theory of Mr. Siemens on the conservation of 
the solar energy. 
Mr. St. George Stock pronounces spiritualism to be “ the 
apotheosis of evolution.” 
The Home Secretary has, by various orders under his hand, 
altered the close time for wild birds in the following counties and 
districts : — Huntingdonshire, Liberty of Peterborough, and Isle 
of Ely (in Cambridgeshire), so as to be from the 15th of March 
to the 31st of August, both dates inclusive ; Essex so as to be 
from the 15th of March to the 1st of August, both inclusive. 
The statutory close time is from the 1st of March to the 1st of 
August. These orders will permanently supersede temporary 
orders to the same effedt, for one year only, made last year. 
