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Notes. 
We are happy to find that the German Minister of Public 
Instruction has given his opinion against any restrictions on 
physiological experimentation. 
Dr. Moffatt’s theory of the influence of hydrogen peroxide in 
the air, and due in Italy as giving beauty to the voice, has been 
strongly combatted by Mr. Lennox Browne, who denies that 
hydrogen peroxide is more abundant in the air of Italy than of 
other countries. 
Mr. Justice Stephen has formally ruled that the cremation of a 
dead body is not an offence at law, and can become so only if 
performed in such a manner as to become a public nuisance. 
Mr. “ Stuart Cumberland’s ” experimental performances at 
Edinburgh and Glasgow are being not unfavourably noticed in 
medical papers. 
We regret to announce the death of the distinguished electri- 
cian Count Theodore du Moncel, editor of “ La Lumiere 
EleCtrique.” 
We are glad to find that Irish papers, of the most opposite 
shades of opinion, are noticing with approval the articles of our 
esteemed friend and contributor Prof. R. Galloway, on “ Tech- 
nical Education.” We believe that if Science, in these realms, 
is ever freed from the yoke of bureaucracy, to Ireland will belong 
the greater share of the honour. 
Prof. Jos. Rumpf (Acad, of Sciences, Vienna) has discovered 
a crystalline felspar — andesite — in lignite. 
A meeting, presided over by Lord Stanley, of Alderley, at 
Bradford, adopted a resolution protesting against the system of 
payment by results in elementary schools, and urging that home 
lessons should not be compulsory on children under 10 years 
of age. 
According to the “ EleCtrical Review ” even Philip Reis was 
not the first inventor of the telephone, having been anticipated 
by Antonia Mencci (1849) and Charles Bourseul (1857). 
According to Dr. Gruber (“ Zeitschrift fiir Biologie ”) all the 
nitrogen taken into the animal system is eliminated in the urine 
and the dung. There is no escape of gaseous nitrogen. 
The observations of Mr. M. W. Harrington (“American 
Journal of Science ”) show that Vesta is in all probability a body 
like the moon, devoid of water and of a perceptible atmosphere. 
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