52 Notes. [January, 
greenish blue. The sun in India is said to have been decidedly 
blue. We have not learnt whether its spedtrum has been 
examined. 
The “ Medical Press and Circular ” remarks that, in applying 
for medical appointments in Edinburgh, “ more dependence is 
to be placed on being a pious Free-Churchman than on any real 
aptitude.” 
At the Meeting of the Linnean Society on the 6th ult. was read 
a posthumous paper by Charles Darwin, on “ Instindt.” 
It is not generally known that Humboldt was an Evolutionist. 
According to Du Bois Reymond he spoke disapprovingly of the 
catastrophic and teleological “ Essay on Classification ” by 
Agassiz, and Parisian traditions report that he was not on the 
best of terms with Cuvier. 
We regret to put on record the death of the distinguished 
American entomologist Dr. J. L. Leconte. The news reached us 
just too late for announcement in our December issue. 
Mr. H. P. Hubbell, in a letter to the “ Popular Science 
Monthly,” describes three human footprints in a rock of magne- 
sian limestone near the mouth of the Little Cheyenne River, in 
Dakota Territory. 
According to the same journal Lord Chief Justice Coleridge 
has been put forward at Yale College to defend classicalism in 
education as against the study of Science. Besides very much 
damaging his cause, his Lordship is reported as having said “ I 
have done many foolish things in my life,” — a most appropriate 
confession from an Anti-Vivise<5tionist. 
The supposed specific bacillus of cholera has not been found 
to reproduce this disease in cats, dogs, swine, guinea-pigs, and 
rats. Mice inoculated with the bacillus have become ill. 
It is very doubtful whether any portion of the profits of the 
Fisheries Exhibition will be applicable to the establishment of a 
station for the study of Marine Zoology. Popular organs 
denounce the proposal, and sneer at scientific investigators and 
their “ fads.” 
Mr. Ivan Levenstein, in an able discourse on the decline of the 
coal-tar colours’ industry in England, delivered before the Man- 
chester Section of the Society of Chemical Industry, insists that 
only such men should be appointed to professorships as have 
distinguished themselves by a<Tual research. 
According to “ La Nature ” M. Saint Georges has devised an 
improvement in the telephone, by which the words spoken are 
registered. 
