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NATURE STUDY. 
Chiron, the Centaur, in the art of medicine, in which he 
became so skillful that he was considered the inventor and 
god of medicine. He accompanied the Argonauts to Col¬ 
chis in the capacity of a physician. He is said to have re¬ 
stored many to life, insomuch that Pluto complained to 
Jupiter that his dark dominion was in danger of being de¬ 
populated by his art. Aesculapius was worshipped at Kpi- 
daurus, and hence is styled by Milton “the god in Kpi- 
daurus.” Being sent for to Rome in time of a plague, he 
assumed the form of a serpent and accompanied the am¬ 
bassadors, but, though thus changed, he was Aesculapius 
still, and under that form continued to be worshipped at 
Rome. The cock and serpent were sacred to him, and 
one of the last acts of Socrates, who is accounted one of 
the wisest and best men of pagan antiquity, was to offer a 
cock to Aesculapius. 
“Hail! great physician of the world, all hail! 
Hail! mighty infant, who in years to come, 
Shall heal the nations and defraud the tomb” 
This completes the list of the prominent constellations 
visible in the latitude of Manchester. The remaining ones 
are small and unimportant, and are unrecognized by some 
authors. They are also, for the most part, difficult of loca¬ 
tion, and so it has not been considered worth while to at¬ 
tempt it. If any one desires to, however, a good star map 
will be of more service than these pages. As the constel¬ 
lations first located are now coming again into view, the 
previous numbers can be used again to confirm or rectify 
according to the observer’s need. 
With May Torreya reached the fifth number of its first 
volume, fully sustaining the confident expectation of the 
many friends of the Torrey Botanical Club, for which or¬ 
ganization it is edited by Marshall Avery Howe of the 
New York Botanical Gardens. Subscription, $i per an¬ 
num; remittances to be addressed to Dr. H. B. Ferguson, 
41 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa. 
