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According to “ Science ” a disease similar to Entomophthora 
muscce in the house-fly has attacked the locust, Caloptenus differ - 
entialis, and is proving widely fatal. 
The “ Kansas Review of Science ” says, erringly, “ Educated 
men, in Europe, all know the principles of art, its methods, and 
its schools.” 
Professor J. Lawrence Smith, the eminent chemist and mine- 
ralogist, died recently at his residence in Louisville. 
Tellurium, nickel, and cobalt are said to occur in very large 
quantities in the State of Colorado. 
At the Annual Meeting of the Birmingham Suburban Institute 
Union, Sir Stafford Northcote is reported to have said that he 
was not a little jealous to see the manner in which the younger 
sister science had been able to put aside the study of the elder 
sister literature.” This utterance must seem strange when we 
reflect that Science has not won that independence and equality 
to which she is entitled, and that Literature, under the name of 
“ general culture,” is still forced, as it were, down the throats of 
those craving for a different diet. 
Dr. G. Wyld has engaged in a controversy with the “ Medical 
Press and Circular ” on the subjecft of mind-reading. 
At a meeting of pupil-teachers in Westminster, Archdeacon 
Farrar, whilst' admitting the dangers of overwork connected with 
our present educational system, naively advised his hearers to 
“ always endeavour to be cheerful.” 
On November 15th Professor Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S., deli- 
vered a Ledture on “ The General Theory of Thermo-dynamics” 
before the Institution of Civil Engineers. 
We learn, with disgust and indignation, that an outrage has 
been committed on the statue of Liebig, at Munich. The entire 
left side of the figure — and especially the head, shoulders, and 
hands — has been drenched with a dark-coloured liquid, which 
appears to penetrate into the marble. 
We regret to put on record the death of Sir William Siemens. 
Discoverers and inventors die off, whilst speech-makers seem 
endowed with the longevity of their prototype, the raven. 
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