1884.] 
( 499 ) 
NOTES. 
At the last meeting, of the Entomological Society Mr. Water- 
house exhibited certain Coleoptera which had been exposed to 
the light, in show-cases, at the British Museum, in comparison 
with recent specimens of the same species. The change of 
coloui was in some cases complementary, e.g., in Eurhinut 
cupreus and in Parapleura bacca, from a fiery red to green. 
” lf ° r ™ al meetin S ° f naturalists has recently been held at 
the Bntish Museum to discuss the proposed introduction of a 
tei nary nomenclature in place of the present binary (Linmean) 
system No resolution was proposed, but we may say that gene- 
rally the innovation was supported by the ornithologists and 
opposed by fhe entomologists. 
A specia 1 laboratory has been opened at Munich for the studv 
01 Bacteria. ■/ 
The results lately obtained by Mr. Eglinton, at St. Tames’s 
are simply astounding. Two clean slates are tied together 
with a morsel of pencil between them, and are held in such a 
manner that the medium cannot touch the inside with any nart 
of his person. Yet a sound of writing is soon heard, and on 
unfastening 
within ! 
the slates they are found covered with' 
writing 
Dr. Miklucho Maclay (“ American Naturalist ”) states that the 
temperature of the body in Echidna hystrix is only 78° F mnnh 
below that of normal mammals. 
The “ Courrier Medical ” describes a fatal case of hydrophobia 
from the bite of a dog evidently not rabid. The patient had 
been bitten slightly, about three months before his admission to 
the hospital, by a pregnant bitch which was not mad, and which 
had since brought forth and suckled a litter of puppies The 
owner of the animal admitted that this bitch when pregnant was 
evil-disposed, and attacked men and animals, whilst she had 
never been mad nor otherwise ill. The fear of hydrophobia was 
evidently not the cause of the symptoms observed, since the 
patient attached no importance to the bite which he had received 
and did not even conned it with his illness. The writer" adds 
that “ it is prudent to mistrust dogs and cats when in the state 
