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Notes. 
On the 16th ult. a most able paper on the “ Preservation of 
Fish Life by excluding the Pollution of Town Sewage ” was 
read at the Fisheries’ Exhibition, by the Hon. W. F. B. Massey- 
Mainwaring. In the discussion which followed all the speakers 
expressed their preference of the chemical treatment of sewage 
as against irrigation, pumping into the sea, &c. 
According to the “ Medical Press ” Prof. Schuethauer, of 
Pesth, in making a post-mortem examination of a woman 
aged 70, found that the spleen was absent, and had never 
existed. 
The director of an ultramarine works in Germany is reported 
to have observed that during forty years none of his workmen 
have been affedfed with pulmonary consumption. This immu- 
nity is ascribed to the sulphur fumes pervading the works. This 
observation, if corredl, tends to support the “germ theory” of 
the origin of phthisis. 
The influx of the rural population into the great cities is in 
Europe regarded with alarm and regret. We were no little sur- 
prised at finding a writer in an American contemporary congra- 
tulating his countrymen on the “ progressive emancipation of 
the people from an agricultural life.” 
