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easily wash the infectious matter into brooks, walls, &c., and thus 
spread the infection. 
M. R. B. Roosevelt (American Assoc.) gave cases of hybridism 
between different species of Salmonidae. He proved that a fish 
hybridism by no means necessarily implies sterility. 
Rev. E. Hill, F.G.S. (British Assoc.) shows reasons for re- 
jecting all the theories of the Ice-age, and considers that further 
investigations on the last series of changes in the outline of the 
continents of the globe should be undertaken. 
R. von Lindenfeld concludes that the Glacial Period in New 
Zealand must have been very recent. 
According to Prof. Storer carbonates of lead and baryta in a 
pure state are fatal to mice, but the addition of a small quantity 
of whiting rendered them both innocuous. 
A French statesman, speaking on behalf of the proposed 
general Exhibition to be held at Paris in 1889, gravely asserted 
that France had, in 1855, given the first example of an inter- 
national “Exposition.” What of England and the World’s Fair 
in 1851 ? Thus is history manufactured. 
“ Cosmos les Mondes ” is filled with indignation at the pro- 
posed international adoption of the meridian of Greenwich, and 
suggests, instead, Rome or Bethlehem ! 
Prof. B. G. Wilder (American Assoc.) proved, by photographs 
and a preparation of the brain of a chimpanzee, that in the 
anthropoid apes the cerebrum extends over the cerebellum by at 
least a millimetre. 
M. Boillot (“ Comptes Rendus ”) calculates the specific gravity 
of liquefied oxygen as o-888. 
Prof. C. S. Minot (American Assoc.) considers the ovum to be 
homologous with the encysted protozoon, the zona radiata being 
equivalent to the capsule or cyst of the protozoon, and the con- 
tents being also homologous. 
The “ Medical Press and Circular ” has an exceedingly able 
article on the present Examination-Craze. 
“ Cosmos les Mondes,” in a memoir on the “ inconveniences 
of the baccalaureat,” shows how rarely men of original minds 
have earned scholastic distinctions. 
3 DEG 1884 
