1885.] Notes. 439 
According to Dr. Gordon the circulation of the blood was 
familiar to the Chinese physicians 2000 years ago. 
M. Magnan cites a number of cases of madness among 
Bestiarians. One woman first renounced animal food, then took 
in all stray dogs, and finally went round to the butchers begging 
them not to slaughter any more cattle. She became formally 
mad, and was received as a patient at Charenton. 
Prof. Dewar and Dr. Tidy, after having undertaken for their 
own satisfaction a prolonged inquiry into the working of the 
“ABC” Sewage Process as carried on at Aylesbury, have 
issued a Report, of which the following are the principal 
points : — 
1. That the ABC Process produces a clear effluent free from 
suspended matter and devoid of smell. 
2. That the effluent is uniform notwithstanding the very varied 
nature and concentration of the sewage. 
3. That as the strength of the sewage increases the precipita- 
tion is more complete. 
4. That the Process removes over 80 per cent of the total 
oxidisable organic matter. 
5. That it precipitates 60 per cent of the organic matter in 
solution, and of the residue left in the effluent at least 
two-thirds are non-albuminous, and therefore of a nature 
less liable to putrefactive and other changes. 
6. That the Process is carried on without nuisance, the sew- 
age being immediately and completely deodorised, and 
the entire Works free from any objectionable smell. 
7. That it produces a manure containing an average of 3-8 per 
cent of ammonia calculated on the perfectly dry manure, 
and also 5 per cent of phosphates reckoned as tricalcic 
phosphate. 
A disgraceful instance has recently occurred of a poor woman 
being compelled, by School Board persecution, to send one of 
her children to school while some others of her family were 
suffering from measles ! Such things are the inevitable outcome 
of the “ payment by results.” 
The “ Philadelphia Call ” quoted in the “American Naturalist,” 
gives an interesting case of a dog feeling ashamed of a dis- 
honest aCt. It “ saw a cutlet near the edge of the board, and 
yielded to the temptation to steal the meat. The cutlet was 
slily seized and taken under the sofa, the dog’s owner pretending 
not to see the theft. But the conscience of the little terrier got 
the better of its hunger : it brought the cutlet back, laid it at the 
feet of its master, hung its head in shame, and slunk away.” 
Prof. H. N. Mosely, F.R.S., contends that all the main groups 
of the animal kingdom first came into existence along the shores 
of the sea, — in the so-called littoral zone, — and that here also 
the first attached and branching plants were developed. But 
