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Notes. 
some difficulty in chewing the leaves of the plantain 
small animal biting the back of a toad would soon perish fiom 
the venom contained in the dorsal pustules. 
The Mariano de la Barcena (“ American Naturalist ”), m 
describing some fossilised human bones found near the city 
Mexico, mentions that the canine teeth are not conical, but 
the same shape as the incisors. 
The death of the great bureaucratic savant H. Milne-Edwards 
has called forth from his friend M. de Quatrefages an exaggerated 
eulogium, which contrasts strangely with the scanty laurels 
which the speaker, three years ago, strewed on the tomb ol a 
greater naturalist. 
MM. P. Brouardel and Paul Loye have studied the poisonous 
atTion of hydrogen sulphide. They distinguish two forms, the 
one instantaneous, due to the aCtion upon the nerve-centres, and 
the other slower, showing a combination of cerebral symptoms 
with those due to asphyxia. 
From “ Science ” we learn that on July 4 th the American 
Board of Control of the Theosophical Society passed a resolution 
“ That the Theosophical Society shall assume and exercise su- 
pervision of the American Society for Psychical Research. I hey 
further “ authorised and required ” one of their own number 
a<5t as censor of the said American Society for Psychical 1 - 
search, and to publicly review and criticise any and all ot the 
Proceedings, Transactions, &c., which the said Society may pub- 
lish at his judgment and discretion.” They further “ express y 
require him, when any fart in psychic science shah have bee 
satisfactorily established by the American Society for Psychrcal 
Research, to explain such fart to the said American Society, ac- 
cording to the doCtrines and upon the principles of psychic 
science, of which the Theosophical Society is the custodian in 
the United States.” . 
“ Science,” in commenting very temperately on this amazing 
piece of assumption, asks “What body will come forward to 
‘assume and exercise ’ supervision of the American Board 
Control of the Theosophical Society ?” 
5 SEP 1985 
