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In reply, Mr. Huggins points out that the false coronal effects 
which Mr. Pickering obtained are precisely those to be expected 
from his methods. Mr. Huggins expresses his suprise that Mr. 
Pickering should have mentioned his name in connection with 
experiments carried out in complete disregard to the conditions 
to which he had called attention as essential. He adds that 
whatever Dr. Lohse may possibly have stated privately his pub- 
lished statement admits of no such construction as that put 
upon it by Mr. Pickering. 
Think ! A Reply to Lord BramwelVs Plea for “ Drink.'" By 
Dawson Burns, D.D. London : National Temperance 
Publication Depot and Alliance Offices. 
This publication scarcely ranks among the subjects which we 
are in the habit of discussing. We may fully concede that 
alcoholic fluids are not necessaries of life. We may further con- 
sider it an error and a chemical sin to use any substance con- 
taining a notable proportion of organic nitrogen for any purpose 
whatever in which such organic nitrogen is not essential, and 
we may thus pass an unfavourable judgment upon the brewer 
and the distiller. We may even, going beyond “ Teetotaller,” 
express our conviction that in a cold damp climate like ours a 
man whose food is rationally selected will, under ordinary circum- 
stances, need no liquids of any kind. But at the diCtum here 
quoted from the late Duke of Albany, “ Drink — the only terrible 
enemy England has to fear,” we can only smile and think that if 
this young man had had time to observe more he might have 
become conscious of the existence of not a few other terrible 
enemies from which, as a nation, we have much to fear. 
Nor can we believe, as do many that the legislative abolition 
of the drink traffic would land us in Utopia. We believe, with 
Mr. McElroy (“ Popular Science Monthly ”), that “with very few 
exceptions, every man who goes to perdition by the Alcohol route 
would reach that destination by some other highway if the 
alcohol line were not running.” But on this subjeCt we may 
refer our readers to the article “ Vice as an Eliminative Agent,” 
(“Journal of Science,” 1883, p. 273), in which the views of Mr. 
W. Mattieu Williams and Mr. J. McElroy are expounded and 
discussed. 
