Notes. 
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Trout-breeding, as it appears, is fairly successful in New 
Zealand. Mr. Pillans, of Otago, has now in his nursery tanks 
about 6000 yearlings and 250 two-year old fish, all thriving. 
‘‘P°° r humanist ” ought to feel gratified with the Peerage 
offeied to the Laureate, a man unfriendly to Science and of 
Bestiarian propensities. During the lifetime of the present 
generation four Peerages have been awarded to “ letters 
Science none ! LU 
According to the “ Eleflrical Review ” Mr. G. G. Rockwood 
the' << Substan^ W2VeS ° f S ° Und ' What ^ 
According to Sir R. W. Rawson the measurements of tho 
Anthropometric Committee show that from the top of the social 
scale to the bottom there is a gradual descent in stature chest- 
gnth, weight, and all the elements of strength. ’ 
A submarine observatory is, according to the “ Petit Nicois ” 
about to be constructed at Nice ; the submarine flora and fauna 
luminated, if necessary, by powerful electric lamps. 
Prof. Von Fleischl (“ Chem. Physik. Gesell. zu Wien ”) con 
eludes that the retinal rods supplied by one and the same nerve- 
fibre do not form an anatomical group, but stand intermixed 
with rods supplied by other nerve-fibresf d 
Mr. W. K. Brooks (“American Naturalist”) argues that the 
germ-cell ts the persistent and the sperm-cell thf progress ve 
element in the formation of a new being. Progressive 
M. Auguste Charpentier (“ Comptes Rendus ”), in course of 
researches on the perception of differences of illom.W;™ u * 
that the differential fraction (the excess of the illumination of°the 
constant! 68 2 th2 ‘ ° f the is by “o me^s 
M. V. Jodin (“ Comptes Rendus ”) has succeeded in cultiva- 
ng plants in solutions of putrescent organic matter. 
According to the “ Medical Press ” the water-supply of New 
castle is supplemented ^ dry weather by fluid pumped up from 
the Tyne, below the point where the sewage of Hexham s dis 
charged into the river. 1 Q1S 
mMtaneo^sly^V^the SantL^ 8 ^^ metreVi^heigh^and^n^the 
the surfaefol the'eLrth 286 V68y ,0 be met with “«=P‘ °n 
“ Science ” recommends that authors who re-publish in a 
sepai ate form, memoirs which first appeared in the Trans 
of^the S original! etieS> Sh0Uld ^ careful t0 the pagTng 
