374 Notes. [June, 
Angola, all the other species of the genus occur exclusively in 
Eastern Asia. 
We regret to put on record the death of Sir Sidney Saunders, 
a Vice-President of the Entomological Society. The deceased 
was an accurate and thorough-going investigator, and is well 
known for his researches on the metamorphoses of the Cantha- 
ridae, and on the internal parasites of the fig. 
Dr. Donovan (“ Medical Press and Circular ”) drily remarks 
that the Right Hon. A. Mundella may be thoroughly competent 
to frame laws having regard to the Nottingham stocking-trade, 
but that the manufacture of stockings does not render that esti- 
mable gentleman an infallible authority on medical reform. 
(Surely Dr. Donovan must know that a Privy Councillor is 
simply, as such, an infallible authority on all questions, scientific, 
literary, artistic as well as practical, and that if so inclined he 
may be elected F.R.S. almost as a matter of course.) 
The Rev. Canon Curteis (“ Nineteenth Century”), criticising 
Mr. Herbert Spencer, asks “ Why should human dreams produce 
a religion, and bestial dreams produce none ? ” Is he sure that 
the latter produce none ? 
We are sorry to notice the death of Dr. R. Angus Smith, 
formerly assistant to Dalton, and latterly Chief Inspector under 
the Alkali ACt. It will not be easy to find anyone who can ad- 
minister this ACt so satisfactorily, and at the same time with so 
little injury to the interests involved. 
Almost at the same time died Prof. C. Wurtz, Professor of 
Chemistry at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and at the Sorbonne. 
His death will leave Prof. Berthelot almost as supreme in the 
chemical department of the Academy of Sciences as is Prof. 
Milne-Edwards in the biological sphere. 
According to Eugene Bonnemere (“ Light”) Zoroaster rejected 
asceticism and condemned the so-called virtues of monks. 
The “ Sporting and Dramatic News ” (Saul among theTro- 
phets ?) has begun to publish cases of the fulfilment, or almost 
fulfilment, of several dreams. 
Dr. C. C. Abbott (“ Science ”) concludes that hybernation is a 
happy faculty which certain animals possess, but do not willingly 
exercise, as long as the temperature is sufficiently high and food 
is accessible. 
M. Pasteur states that he “ never could kill a bird for sport, 
though in the cause of Science he has no scruples.” What a 
fine contrast to our anti-viviseClionist sportsmen ! 
It is announced that in October Sir W. Thomson will deliver 
a course of eighteen lectures on molecular dynamics, at the 
Johns Hopkins University. 
