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Dr. E. B. Tylor remarks that the moment that anthropologists 
take to cultivating their science as a party weapon in religion 
and politics, this will vitiate their reasonings and spoil the scien- 
tific character of their work. 
Dr. Harrison (“ Canada Lancet ”) records the strange fart of 
a sick child voiding a large number of the pupae of the Colorado 
beetle. The inserts did not seem the worse for their abnormal 
sojourn. 
Liquefied carbonic acid is spoken of among German engineers 
as “the power of the future.” 
Mr. Ruskin justly complains that “ the whole force of educa- 
tion until very lately has been devoted in every way to the 
destruction of the love of Nature. The only knowledge which 
has been considered essential is that of words, and next ot 
abstractions. ” 
According to a contemporary, in an examination on physi- 
ology some years ago, at South Kensington, the question was 
nut “ What is bile, and what are its uses ? ” One candidate s 
answer was “ Bile is formed in the stomach, and is used for 
cleaning carpets.” 
Mr. Cope Whitehouse maintains, in “Van Nostrand’s En- 
gineering Magazine,” that the artificial Lake Mceris must have 
had the dimensions ' ascribed to it by Herodotus and Ptolemy, 
and that the Pyramids, including that of Cheops, were formed 
from the rocks cut away, the stones being not raised up, but let 
down to their present positions. 
We cannot adequately express our regret at finding that Mr. 
A. R. Wallace has descended into the region of politics. 
“ Lio'ht ” writes “ Now we protest emphatically against any 
attempt to suppress the search after truth, in whatever realm, 
natural or supernatural, by an appeal to the strong [better 
‘blundering’] arm of the law.” Surely a denunciation of the 
Anti-Vivisertion Art, as well as of the “ Slade prosecution.” 
A writer in the “ Popular Science Monthly” complains that 
an education in Germany fills a youth “ with a love of research 
for its own sake, not for the sake of its dirert bearing upon 
prartical results.” Precisely so ; and without this love neither 
man nor nation will ever become great in Science. 
Dr.’F. Muller shows that the excrement of Carnivora, fed upon 
pure flesh, is essentially a secretion from the intestinal canal, and 
not a residuum from the food ingested. 
M. Pasteur proposes, as an interesting series of experiments, 
to feed young animals from their birth exclusively upon pure 
