Notes. 
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.de r ;v S ct;il^ P Zf t ^l"fe d i efore the Meteorological 
due to De Luc. 
was invented 
scale is really 
os les Mondes,” contends that 
consequence of a miraculous, 
supernatural phenomenon, the universal deluge. 
satellite which has escaped from the control of its 
gives it the name of Neith. 
primary. He 
The highest temperature registered in New South Wales in 
January last was 122 0 F. (50° C.) 
According to the “ .Fsculapian ” there prevails in the neigh- 
bourhood of Yakutsk an affedtion known as “ miryachit.” The 
patients behave very similarly to the “Jumpers ” of Maine (see 
“Journal of Science,” 1879, p. 247). The “Medical Press” 
considers that should the description of this nervous affedtion 
prove corredt, it will go far to sweep away Heidenhain’s explana- 
tion of hypnosis as a result of inhibition of the adtion of the 
higher nervous centres. 
The Royal Commission on the discharge of sewage into the 
Thames state that “ Nobody has hitherto anticipated that liquid 
discharged into the river at Barking could be transported many 
miles up the river in the face of the powerful descending stream 
of land-water ; but that this effedf is produced can no longer be 
doubted.” 
We learn from a medical contemporary that there exists a 
combined “ Vigilance Association ” — “ an organisation of anti- 
vaccinationists, anti-vivisedlionists, and anti-contagious-disease 
agitators,” for the purpose of “ blocking” any Bills brought into 
Parliament which may be hostile to the ends of these worthies. 
Have the medical and the scientific world not influence enough 
to organise a counter “ Vigilance Association ” ? 
According to the “ Medical Press ” Dr. Koch, in recognition 
of his researches into the origin of cholera, has received from 
the Reichstag the sum of £5000, and is nominated to the Crown 
Order of the second class. What a contrast to England ! 
