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City Schools is so constructed that the voice of the master will 
be scarcely audible. 
A meeting was held on the 20th ult. for the purpose of organ- 
ising a national fish-culture association. 
Prof. L. Miall delivered a LeCture on the 21st ult., at the 
London Institution, on “ Dominant Forms of Animal Life.” 
Dr. H. R. Rogers refers gravitation to electricity, and main- 
tains that “ the prime factors in the problem of Universal Force 
are: (1) The motions of the celestial spheres due to a primum 
mobile wholly undemonstrable ; and (2) the magnetism inherent 
in these spheres .” 
We are very sorry to learn that the proposed meeting of the 
British Association in Canada meets with objectors. We might 
reasonably hope that men of Science would rise above that 
narrow, parochial spirit, which is one of the gravest defects of 
the English national mind. 
We were mistaken in announcing the death of Prof. Palmieri, 
of the Vesuvius Observatory. The death of a nephew and 
namesake of the illustrious seismologist had given rise to a false 
report. 
A subscription for the ereCtion of a monument to Darwin has 
been opened at Paris, under the auspices of the Academy of 
Sciences. The Committee, however, make the reservation that 
their aCt does not imply any appreciation of “ the general 
doCtrines, scientific or philosophical, of the illustrious defunCt.” 
It is with deep regret that we announce the unexpected death 
of our friend and contributor, Mr. Robert Ward, of Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne. The deceased gentleman had been engaged in pre- 
paring for publication the reminiscences of his distinguished 
relative, Bewick. The work was to have been illustrated with a 
selection of engravings from the original blocks. He enjoyed in 
this task the cooperation of Miss Bewick, who, we hope, will be 
able to complete the undertaking. 
Dr. L. Kretzschmar ( Botanische Zeitung) shows experimentally 
that the reagent used by Loew and Bokorny for distinguishing 
living from dead protoplasm (1 i.e ., a very dilute alkaline solution 
of silver) aCts alike with both, and that the alkali alone, even in 
the absence of the silver, kills the protoplasm. 
Dr. Schadenberg, on an exploring journey in the southern 
Philippines, has met with a new species of Eafflesia, the flower 
of which measures 30 inches in diameter. Its odour is un- 
pleasant. 
