328 On the Cellular and Extra-Cellular [June, 
both hemispheres, with their bases or parallels ; they divide 
the hemispheres in proportion i : 478,” in 55 0 48' latitude. 
The island with its glaciers produces a bend of only 1*7' of 
latitude towards the Equator in the isotherm of i’666°. 
The Rev. Professor Samuel Haughton, in “ Six Lectures 
on Physical Geography, 1880,” gives, on p. 108, the tempera- 
ture for 55 0 48' S. lat., 478° C. ; for 54 0 31' S. lat., 5*29° C. ; 
for 36° 5' W. long., even 1*22° C. higher. 
The mean temperature of the globe was generally given, 
according to Dove, 14*44° C., — 15'55° for the northern, 13*33° 
for the southern hemisphere. I made the mean for the 
globe 15*22°, and the temperature for the two hemispheres 
equal. Of late I met the figure 15*22° for the globe ; by 
whom determined and by what method I did not see. 
The range in South Georgia between the coldest and 
warmest month was only 8*77° C. What I said of the 
Antarctic meteorological zone, after having shown that its 
mean temperature is higher than that of the ArCtic, applies 
to this Sub-antarCtic region. “ It is generally thought that 
the Antarctic regions are considerably colder than the Arctic. 
Those navigators who penetrated farthest in the Antarctic 
regions did not support this view; the animal life of its seas 
contradicts it. Remoteness, the low temperature of the 
warm season, which does not prove the great cold of the 
long nights, and the imposing icebergs and masses of pack- 
ice, have produced wrong impressions.” 
IV. ON THE CELLULAR AND EXTRA-CELLULAR 
TRANSPORTATION OF NUTRIMENT. 
(CRN consequence of prolonged researches on the absorp- 
vjk tion and assimilation of peptone, Dr. F. Hofmeister 
(S' arrives at the following conclusions, which he has 
given to the world in the “ Archiv fur Experimentelle Phy- 
siologic ” : — 
The absorption of peptone in the intestine is no simple 
mechanical process of filtration or diffusion, but a function 
of definite living cells, the colourless blood-corpuscles. 
