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Notes. 
We regret to learn that the celebrated Godefroy Museum at 
Hamburg is in course of being broken up. A part of it has 
been purchased for the Museum of Leipzig. 
The flowers of Lantana carnara, of a deep golden yellow, 
change before fading to orange and scarlet ; L. nivea opens 
white, and changes to blue ; L. mixta also opens white, and 
changes through yellow and orange to red. 
The predominance of the polar current during the year now 
drawing to a close has been exceptional, both in its dry and its 
rainy portions. 
According to investigations made by the medical inspectors of 
the Local Government Board, schools, under the present system, 
rank among the chief agencies for spreading diphtheria. 
The death of Dr. W. B. Carpenter deserves to be put on 
record. He was an opponent of Evolution and of Spiritualism, 
which he sought to account for by the grossly inadequate hypo- 
thesis of “ dominant ideas.” 
According to the researches of Prof. O. Marsh, of Newhaven, 
brain-growth was an important element in the survival of ar.imal 
species. 
NOTICE. 
With this number the “Journal of Science,” at least under pre- 
sent auspices, will cease to appear. The Editor accordingly bids 
a kindly farewell to all his contributors, correspondents, and 
readers. He fully appreciates the sympathy and encouragement 
which he has received from thinkers of the most widely differing 
opinions. Most of all he is gratified by the abusive letters, chiefly 
anonymous, which have been addressed to him by Bestiarians. 
To have earned their vehement disapprobation is proof that his 
labours as “ servus servorum Scientiae ” have not been in vain. 
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