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1883.] 
According to the experiments of Ewald and Robert the lungs 
are not absolutely air-tight at high pressures (“ Pfliiger’s 
Archiv.”). 
M. Netter professes to demonstrate experimentally the non- 
intelligence and the automatism of animals. He appears to 
have overlooked the circumstance that his demonstration, if 
valid, applies also to man. 
The removal of the Geneva museum to a new building has, 
we learn, proved ruinous to a considerable part of the entomo- 
logical collections. Let us hope that a better fate awaits the 
British Museum in its place of exile. 
M. Cattaneo, in an elaborate work, combats the view of 
Perrier that the Mollusca, like the Articulata, are formed by the 
amalgamation of linear colonies. 
Dr. de Chaumont (“ Medical Press and Circular ”) in an inte- 
resting paper on the “ Origin and Development of the Science 
of Hygiene,” says — “ Of the other writers of the period I will 
only refer to Thomas Philogus, of Ravenna, on account of his 
strong protest against intramural interment, thus anticipating 
by some three centuries the happily fruitful labours of our dis- 
tinguished countryman Edwin Chadwick.” Can Dr. de Chau- 
mont have forgotten that the modern and successful protest 
against intramural interment was made by our distinguished 
countryman Dr. George Walker, once known all England over 
as “ Churchyard Walker ” ? 
Prof. Feser, by feeding rats exclusively upon animal food, 
rendered them incapable of contracting, by inoculation, splenic 
fever, to which other rats, fed on a vegetable diet, easily suc- 
cumbed. 
A writer in “ Les Mondes ” divides Evolutionists into three 
classes: — 1. The atheists; Haeckel, Vogt, Biichrer, and their 
school. 2. The gnostic or positivist evolutionists ; Herbert, 
Spencer, Tyndall, Huxley, Bain, and Littre. 3. The theistic 
Evolutionists ; Owen, Sir John, Herschel, Sir William-Thomson, 
Prof. Gray, M. Vallace, M. Naudin.” (We copy these names 
literally. It might be asked whether Sir J. Herschel and Sir W. 
Thomson have ever professed themselves Evolutionists, and also 
why the name of Darwin himself is omitted ? A positivist 
Evolutionist is, since the death of G. H. Lewes, a rarity.) 
Dean Swift’s famous college of Brobdignag could not be more 
machine-like in its method of working than is the unwieldy 
thing we may call our modern system of education, with its 
standards and certificates, and payments by results, &c. But 
what are these results ? We could understand there being some 
value attached to a good result. The result, however, is not 
