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Editors having power of rejection. Hence we presume an- 
nouncements of proprietary medicines and quackery in general 
will be excluded. We regret that all scientific organs in England 
do not adopt so highminded a policy. 
We learn that Prof. Owen is in a very critical state of health. 
The memorial to the late Prof. Sir C. Wyville Thomson has 
taken the form of a bust, to be set up in the University Hall of 
Edinburgh, and a painted window in St. Michael’s church, Lin- 
lithgow. 
The “ Medical Press and Circular ” predicts that we shall 
doubtless have murder by electricity before long, followed up by 
a verdiCt of “ Death by the visitation of God.” 
Dr. Xaver Landerer, of Athens, maintains that the narcotic 
honey of Armenia, the effects of which were known as far back 
as the days of Xenophon, is obtained from the poppies cultivated 
in that country for the production of opium. 
We read in “ Light ” for January 27th that a Dr. Planat sus- 
pends horizontally from the centre of an inverted bell-glass, by 
a thread of unspun silk, a piece of thin brass wire with its ends 
beaten out to foil. “ The neuric force passing from the pointed 
fingers through the bell-glass, directed to either end of the wire 
and moved laterally, puts it in motion.” 
Unless our memory deceives us similar phenomena were occa- 
sionally reported in the earlier part of the present century, but 
could not be verified on critical examination. It is further stated 
in “ Light ” “ that the late Mr. Wallington, a potent mesmeriser, 
assured me that a new knife, worn in his pocket for a short time, 
acquired the property of attracting needles.” 
Iron tools, &c., new and old, are so often found to be magnetic 
that the faCt recorded is of no value unless both the knife and 
the needles had been previously examined and found to be non- 
magnetic. 
“ Science ” has lost an enemy in the person of the deceased 
musician R. Wagner. He was committed to the “ Anti-Vivi- 
seCtion ” movement, and his admirers — blindly following a blind 
leader — helped to form the “ public opinion ” which some would 
have us respeCt. Perhaps had Wagner lived longer we should 
have had anti-viviseCtion operas as a companion-folly to the 
Edinburgh anti-viviseCtionist prayer-meetings. 
