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formerly to some extent performed the function of a lung, 
enabling fishes to visit the land. 
At the last meeting of the Biological Society of France 
M. Brown-Sequard gave some instances of allocheirism, an 
alteration of sensibility in which a touch or an injury on the 
right side of the body is felt at the corresponding point of the 
left side. 
Claude Bernard, we are told, was a confirmed spiritualist. 
The appearance of the swallows this year in France has been 
— Beaucaire and Pendensac (Gironde), March 23rd ; Vendome, 
March 31st; Poitiers, April 1st ; Parc St. Maur, near Paris, 
April 4th ; and Dunkirk, April 16th. 
According to the “ Brewer’s Guardian ” 25,000,000,000 gallons 
of carbonic acid are yearly emitted into the atmosphere of 
Britain from the fermentation of malt liquors. 
We are sorry to find that the “ Economical Section ” of the 
British Association is not yet marked for amputation. 
J. F. James (“ Science”) shows from the first appearance of 
early flowers that in the Ohio Valley — just as in England — the 
spring of 1885 has been abnormally late. 
We have omitted to put on record the death of C. T. E. von 
Siebold, founder of the “ Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftliche 
Zoologie.” 
A statue of Linnaeus was formally inaugurated at Stockholm 
on May 13th. 
According to Hindu legends the successive incarnations of 
Vishnu ascended from lower to higher forms ; first a fish, then a 
tortoise, a boar, a lion, a dwarf (ape), &c. 
A. Gruber (“ Biolog. Central-Blatt ”) has succeeded in dividing 
and re-dividing Infusoria ( Stentor cczrulcus ) until sixteen indivi- 
duals, each perfect, were produced from the original subjedt. 
Segments without a nucleus healed after the operation, but never 
became perfedt animals. 
German sanitary authorities are vainly seeking to combat 
Trichinae and their evil effedts by a more rigid inspedtion of all 
swine slaughtered for food. The remedy lies with the public ; 
let them desist from the use of raw ham, “ hackfleisch ” (chopped 
raw pork), and “ speck-salat,” and the mischief will be at 
an end. 
Count de la Croix de Vaubois, who has eaten preserved locusts 
at Ouargla, thinks that they might have been good if the oil had 
not been rancid and mixed with sand. 
According to the Bulletin de l’Academie Royale de Belgique ” 
