1884.] 
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According to Dr. Hahn (“ Comptes Rendus ”) the Yakanas a 
Bea-le" Channel ^1 I ? eighbourhood of Murray Straits and ’of 
the revok of Celebrate a y earl y festival commemorative of 
r ^ 0lt , of , the ™ en against the women, who had previously 
L“f tmery" my “ ^ “ d Wh ° P ~ d th " 
. Th P P resei jce of the Phylloxera in the vineyards of Victoria 
is unfortuately a demonstrated fart. A Sub-committee of the 
Entomological Society have made a minute examination of roots 
lS S f ent over for this purpose by the Virtorian Minister of 
Agriculture, and have found upon them numerous specimens of 
the insert in its “ under-ground ” stage. P 0 
P Jf h V! tereS !‘' o g cc ? lledlion of Lepidoptera formed by the late 
amdiam ^ ° f Stettln ’ has become the property of Lord Wal- 
We learn from a contemporary that a graduate in medicine 
of the Spermatozoa'^ Semei ° 1 ° S >' ? ” answered “ A description 
According to the Astronomer Royal (“ Monthly Notices of the 
Royal Astronomical Society ”) the green band of the spertrum 
of the Pons-Brookes comet does not coincide with the green 
band of the alcohol spertrum, but lies far to the blue of it. 
Th ? . 1 A " t ^P° metric Com mittee of the British Association 
abn 0It !g at Fellows of the R °y al Society are more than 2 inches 
“ , the avera - e statur f (We wish a separate measurement 
could have been made of that selert body of the Fellows who 
communicate papers to the “ Transactions ” and the “ Pro- 
ceedings. 
M. Marcel Depr ez contends that elertricity is not one of the 
forms of energy, but is merely its vehicle. 
Dr. W. Jones (“Science”) records that a spider remained 
, U y m a paper box for 204 days without any kind of food, 
bhe did not appear feeble or emaciated until within three days 
Mr. W. H. Hudleston, F.G.S. (“ Mineralogical Magazine ”) 
thinks it possible that the diamonds in South Africa are the 
result of reactions which have taken place between the hydro- 
carbons of the shales and the hydrous magnesian silicate, under 
peculiar conditions of temperature and water-gas pressure. 
In the advertisement list of an eminent American firm of 
educational publishers we find 30 books on Latin, 19 on Greek 
11 on Music, and 3 on Science,— to wit, a treatise on vibratory 
motion and sound, an elementary manual of Physics, and a set 
of questions on Physics. Do these figures show the relative 
position which the heads of colleges and schools allot to Science ? 
