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NOTES. 
In 1875 Boussingault found the temperature of hailstones 
— 10-3°, when the temperature of the air was +26. A few days 
later M. Cailletet determined the temperature of a large hail- 
stone as — 9 0 . 
According to MM. Bornis and Daniel, who have conducted 
observations on the Senegal for five years, there is no relation 
between the indications of ozonoscopic paper and the intensity 
of yellow and bilious fever. 
We learn that in Russia the works of Darwin, Spencei, 
Agassiz, Huxley, Lewes, Moleschott, Buchner, Vogt, and Reclus 
are forbidden to be issued from circulating libraries. Before 
taking up our parable on this subjeft let us remember that a few 
years ago a set of the works of Darwin, Spencer, and Huxley 
was seized by the Canadian Custom-house as “ immoral. 
A rose tree growing in the New Gardens, Whitby, is said to 
have had this year flowers and buds to the number of 3000. 
S. Eadon, M.D., M.A., Ph.D., writing in “ Light” on the od 
force, says “ Od cannot be magnetism, for that force is only in- 
herent in a few substances, and can only be conveyed along 
certain kinds of bodies.” He ought to know that Faraday proved 
the magnetic condition of all matter, and that magnetism, unlike 
electricity, cannot be insulated. 
The “Lancet” very justly remarks that faith-healing is 
simply the converse of the “ old trick of making a man ill by 
persistently telling him he is ill until he believes it.” 
A gigantic Mosasaurien, from the phosphatic chalk of Mesvin- 
Ciply, near Mons, has been secured for the Belgian Royal 
Museum. The length of the skull and of that part of the verte- 
bral column preserved is from 9 to 10 metres. The lower jaw 
measures i£ metres. 
Messrs. Smith and Dorsey have furnished, at the last meeting 
of the American Society of Civil Engineers, important results 
on underground temperatures. At New Almaden, in California, 
at the depth of 180 metres the temperature is 122 0 F., but at 
450 metres the temperature is quite supportable. In the Eureka 
mine the temperature at 360 metres is no higher than at 
30 metres from the surface. 
