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female which has been vaccinated is inoculated during pregnancy 
with a virulent cultivation the foetus is not protected. 
If Canon Liddon accepts the vacant see of Salisbury, Besti- 
arianism will gain another advocate in the House of Lords. 
A new insedt pest, worse than the Phylloxera, is said to have 
attacked the vineyards of Roumania. 
Omaloplia variabilis is attacking the hops in certain parts of 
Bohemia. 
It is lamentable to find that about a quarter of a million 
humming-birds are yearly imported into this country for the 
gratification of a puerile vanity. In 1872 three thousand skins 
of birds of Paradise were exported from the Aru Islands. When 
will this wretched trade be stopped ? 
Mr. Griffitt, on his silk farm near Smyrna, has obtained 174 lbs. 
of cocoons from a single ounce of silkworms’ eggs. 
The recent investigations of M. Aug. Charpentier show the 
mean position of the maximum of visual intensity is in the 
yellow of the specftrum, not far from the ray D. The maximum 
of luminosity is near the ray b, on the confines of the green and 
blue. The luminous perception and the perception of forms 
correspond to two distindt physiological processes. 
According to M. S. Wroblewski (“ Comptes Rendus ”) the 
eledtric resistance of bodies decreases much more rapidly than 
their absolute temperature, and reaches zero at a temperature 
not far from that obtained by evaporating liquid nitrogen in vacuo. 
The earthquake at Dorignies-Flers-Douai, in the Department 
Nord, affedted merely the superficial chalk-formations, whilst 
miners at work in the coal-mines beneath neither heard nor felt 
anything abnormal. 
The “ Medical Press and Reporter ” mentions the death, at 
Poole, of a man named Blanchard, from the sting of a bee in 
the neck. 
The “ British and Colonial Druggist” writes — “ Dr. Frankland 
resigns the Professorship of Chemistry at the Government School 
of Science and Mines after the present Session. Candidates for 
the post may address the Secretary if they please, but there is a 
rumour about the warming-pan having already been put in the 
vacant place for the benefit of a certain rather juvenile and very 
dogmatic Ph.D. 
The Rev. J. H. Sutton Moxley, Chaplain to the garrison in 
Barbadoes, and Prof. J. B. Harrison, F.C.S., after a long series 
of experiments, find themselves unable to confirm the views of 
Dr, Freire, of Rio Janeiro, that the graves of persons who have 
