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TL;DR: The following extract from a review in "Dodsley's Annual Register for 1767" of Dr. Adam Ferguson's essay on the "History of Civil Society" may be of interest as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: THE following extract from a review in “Dodsley's Annual Register for 1767” of Dr. Adam Ferguson's essay on the “History of Civil Society” may be of interest:—
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TL;DR: Fer as mentioned in this paper observes that the fine flower of the religious consciousness in myth, ritual and art is fleeting and evanescent, its simpler forms are comparatively stable and permanent, being rooted deep in those principles of common minds which bid fair to outlive all the splendid but transient creations of genius.
Abstract: AT the conclusion of his elaborate study of “Spirits of the Corn” Prof. Frazer observes that “while the fine flower of the religious consciousness in myth, ritual, and art is fleeting and evanescent, its simpler forms are comparatively stable and permanent, being rooted deep in those principles of common minds which bid fair to outlive all the splendid but transient creations of genius. It may be that... simple folk will still cherish the simple faiths of their nameless and dateless forefathers....” In his feeling for the system he has studied so long and so minutely, the Darwin, of religion resembles Ernest Renan, who came to regard affectionately the Christian and Pauline subjects of his analysis. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Prof. J. G. Frazer. Third edition. Part v.: Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild. In 2 vols. Vol. i., pp. xvii + 319. Vol. ii., pp. xii + 371. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price, 2 vols., 20s. net.
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TL;DR: Welton as discussed by the authors has drawn a map of life from infancy to manhood, not as the adult lives it, but as it develops in form and complexity, with great ability and clearness.
Abstract: WHATEVER criticism Prof. Welton's book may excite, it is undeniably interesting-the most interesting book dealing with its particular problems that has been produced in recent years. With great ability and clearness, the author has drawn a map of life, not as the adult lives it, but as it develops in form and complexity from infancy to manhood. The teacher and the situations with which he deals are in his mind all through. His book is therefore not a treatise on psychology, yet the psychologist's point of view is so dominant that neither does it set forth a theory of education. This Prof. Welton makes clear in his preface. His concern is with the connections between the two-psychology and education-and especially to give a psychological explanation of educational procedure. The Psychology of Education. By Prof. J. Welton. Pp. xxi + 507. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1911.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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TL;DR: An account of some quantitative studies in epidemiology has recently been published in the second edition of my book on the “ Prevention of Malaria ” (Murray), and the Editor of NATURE has asked me to give a general description of them here.
Abstract: AN account of some quantitative studies in epidemiology has recently been published in the second edition of my book on the “ Prevention of Malaria ” (Murray), and the Editor of NATURE has asked me to give a general description of them here. The attempts originated in the following manner. Shortly after Anophelines were shown to carry malaria, it was often observed that little apparent correlation could be found between their numbers and the numbers of infected persons in a locality. The observations were always far too scanty to establish any real absence of correlation; but they were used, nevertheless, to support the thesis that the amount of malaria does not depend upon the number of the Anophelines, and that therefore the proposed anti-malarial measure of mosquito reduction (then very unpopular) was useless. For many reasons a trustworthy experimental investigation would have been very difficult and costly, and it was therefore all the more necessary to examine the subject by a carefully reasoned analysis of the relations which must hold between the amount of the disease and the various factors which influence it. My first attempt in this direction was made in an official report on the “ Prevention of Malaria in Mauritius “ (Waterlow and Sons, 1908), and fell into the form of a simple difference equation. This was further developed in the first edition of my book already mentioned, and the subject was at the same time ably attacked by Mr. H. Waite, at the instance of Prof. Karl Pearson, in Biometrika, October, 1910.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a series of photographs of the remains, taken on the site of the excavations, are presented. But they do not specify the location of the excavation site.
Abstract: WITH reference to your note on the German East African Dinosaurs (NATURE, May 18, p. 390), Die Woche of May 6 reproduces an interesting series of photographs of the remains, taken on the site of the excavations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the first portion of a systematic account of the American Indian languages is presented, with a special emphasis placed upon the importance of an analytical study of the languages and their morphology, phonetics, and psychological basis.
Abstract: THE admirable volume referred to below1 forms the first portion of a systematic account of the American Indian languages. It has been in preparation for many years, and has grown out of an attempt to prepare a revised edition of Major J. W. Powell's “Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages.” The filling of the schedules contained in the “introduction” caused an accumulation of much linguistic material without throwing much light upon the morphology, the phonetics, or the psychological basis of the languages. In this new work special emphasis is placed upon the importance of an analytical study of the languages. The work has been rendered possible by the cooperation of numerous investigators under the auspices of various institutions, particularly the American Museum of Natural History and the University of California.
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TL;DR: The first volume of the projected annual series under the general editorship of Dr. Franz Boas as discussed by the authors was published in 1910, and forms, with tales previously pub lished by him, a large mass of material for the study of the myths of the Kwakiutl, who live between River Inlet and Cape Madge, on the coast of British Colum bia.
Abstract: THIS volume is the first to appear of a projected annual series under the general editorship of Dr. Franz Boas, and forms, with tales previously pub lished by him, a large mass of material for the study of the myths of the Kwakiutl, who live between River Inlet and Cape Madge, on the coast of British Colum bia. There are here many interesting parallels to legends of Japan, Australia, and other distant lands, as well as racial and local tales, often humorous, of culture-heroes and sorcerers, and naive explanations of the origins of dances and ceremonies, and of animals and natural objects. The usefulness of the collection could have been much increased, especially for readers not familiar with American-Indian lore, by multiplying the footnotes, and by an introduction such ns Dr. Boas himself supplied to Teit's “Traditions of the Thompson River Indians,” for, as pointed out bv him elsewhere, the traditions and organisation of the tribe are mutually explanatory, and here we have the traditions only. Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology. Edited by Franz Boas. Vol. ii., Kwakiutl Tales. By Franz Boas. Pp. viii + 495. (New York: Columbia University Press; Leyden: E. J. Brill, Ltd., 1910.)
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TL;DR: In a lecture delivered at University College in May, 1910, Prof. V. Bjerknes outlined the methods, described characteristically as rational, by which he hoped to utilise synchronous meteorological observations for a more purely scientific purpose than the preparation of daily forecasts.
Abstract: IN a lecture delivered at University College in May, 1910, Prof. Bjerknes outlined the methods, described characteristically as rational, by which he hoped to utilise synchronous meteorological observations for a more purely scientific purpose than the preparation of daily forecasts. The present work is the first instalment of a treatise prepared, in collaboration with Dr. J. W. Sandstrom, with such investigations in view, and is intended to present in an ordered and rational form the principles and development of meteorology and hydrography viewed from the point of view of a mathematical physicist. Bjerknes has realised the fact that economy of thought and labour are essential to advance in meteorological and hydrographic investigation, and although his book bears little actual resemblance to Lagrange's “Mecanique Analytique,” we cannot help calling to mind that classical masterpiece of scientific economy in reading this volume. Dynamic Meteorology and Hydrography. By Prof. V. Bjerknes and different collaborators. Pp. 146 + 36A + 30B + 22C. (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution, 1910.)
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TL;DR: Van Wijk's Dictionary of Plant Names as discussed by the authors is one of those books that cause wonderment and admiration, because it will be used, we should say, by comparatively few persons and admiration of the author, who has devoted so much of his life to the service of the few, the work having been some twenty-five years under compilation.
Abstract: THIS is one of those books that cause wonderment and admiration—wonderment, because it will be used, we should say, by comparatively few persons, and admiration of the author, who has devoted so much of his life to the service of the few, the work having been some twenty-five years under compilation. A Dictionary of Plant Names. By H. L. Gerth van Wijk. Part i., pp. xxiv + 710. Part ii., pp. v + 711“1444. (Haarlem: Published by the Dutch Society of Sciences. 1909“1910.)
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TL;DR: The extensive damage done to skulls and bones generally in many of the graves of Egypt and Nubia has been attributed to beetles, the bodies of these animals having been found in the earth which is invariably associated with the damaged area, the latter being, in fact, always covered with earth unless it has been knocked off during removal of the skull from the grave as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: THE extensive damage done to skulls and bones generally in many of the graves of Egypt and Nubia has been attributed to beetles, the bodies of these animals having been found in the earth which is invariably associated with the damaged area, the latter being, in fact, always covered with earth unless it has been knocked off during removal of the skull from the grave.
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TL;DR: In this article, the present professor of natural philosophy, as reported in NATURE of June 1, p. 466, was asked to step outside usual practice in this instance and to direct wider attention to the exception of the brilliant and momentous work described to the Royal Institution on Friday evening, April 7, by its present professor.
Abstract: WILL you permit me to step outside usual practice in this instance and to direct wider attention to the exception ally brilliant and momentous work described to the Royal Institution on Friday evening, April 7, by its present professor of natural philosophy, as reported in NATURE of June 1, p. 466?
TL;DR: Péringuey as discussed by the authors has argued that no cogent evidence has been produced in the shape of geological features associated with the finds of human remains or implements to indicate, as positively as is the case in Europe and Asia, the period in the earth's history with which such remains are to be associated.
Abstract: THE papers in this volume are a very full and important addition to the work already published by Mr. J. P. Johnson; but it is doubtful whether they bring us any nearer to a solution of one of the most interesting questions connected with archasological or palæontological discoveries in South or Central Africa—namely, the approximate age to which the existence of man can be traced back in South Africa, East Africa, the Congo basin, West Africa, and the Sudan. Though Dr. Péringuey would seem, from one or two phrases, to lean to the theory of a very ancient date for the human colonisation of tropical Africa, he has to admit repeatedly that so far no cogent evidence has been produced in the shape of geological features associated with the finds of human remains or implements to indicate, as positively as is the case in Europe and Asia, the period in the earth's history with which such remains are to be associated.
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TL;DR: It is now a great pleaure to learn from the third number of the quarterly publication of the Government of India, called Paludism, that that Government has set aside the amount of 500,000 rupees for an Indian to study medical and sanitary problems.
Abstract: IT is usual to preach nowadays that plain speaking does more harm than good; but I have reason to believe that some very plain statements which have appeared in NATURE and elsewhere on the subject of Indian medical research and sanitation have had a converse effect. It is now a great pleaure to learn from the third number of the quarterly publication of the Government of India, called Paludism, that that Government has set aside the sttfn of 500,000 rupees (about 33,000l. for an Indian to study medical and sanitary problems. No other Government possesses such a magnificent opportunity to add to the common stock of knowledge on such subjects. It rules an immense population; it draws a great revenue; and it is served by hundreds of well-trained medical officers. We are not yet informed as to the details of the allotment, but funds are the sinews of science as of war, and the Indian Government will certainly never regret the step it has taken.
TL;DR: In this paper, the peculiar character of the streamlines round a moving air bubble compared with those round a fixed solid obstacle may seem to some to require an explanation, and the writer of the letter offers none, may I be permitted to state what appears to be the cause of the conflicting currents shown in Fig. 4 of Mr. G. Royal-Dawson's letter?
Abstract: IN the very interesting letter by Mr. W. G. Royal-Dawson in NATURE of March 23 on the above subject, the peculiar character of the stream-lines round a moving air bubble compared with those round a fixed solid obstacle may seem to some to require an explanation. As the writer of the letter offers none, may I be permitted to state what appears to be the cause of the conflicting currents shown in Fig. 4 of Mr. Royal-Dawson's letter?
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TL;DR: Crawfurd as mentioned in this paper pointed out that the gift of healing was not so much a "transmission" from gods to men as a function the priest-king originally was the organ rather than the agent of the supernatural.
Abstract: THE history of the king's evil and the royal touch, whether as a picture in detail of a certain stream of a very ancient tradition, or as a particular instance of something more than a tradition or symbol, of a mystic interpretation of man's relation to the unseen powers which encompass him, is a deeply interesting study. We are far from imputing it as a fault to Dr. Raymond Crawfurd if, in his scholarly decision to keep to his own part of a great subject, and to do thoroughly what he undertook, he has averted' his eye from the ancient sources of the mystery, or even neglected the facts and fables which linked up the modern and the ancient modes of miraculous healing. Still, has not Dr. Crawfurd almost dissembled these sources of the far past and the ancient myth? He remarks, for instance, that the gods “have transmitted the gift “(of healing) to mortal man-especially to conspicuous individuals such as kings; to Pyrrhus, for example, or Vespasian. And a few sentences farther on (p. 10) he says that, with the spread of Christianity, the priest “usurped” for a while the prerogative of healing. This seems scarcely the right colour to put upon the past. Samuel looked upon Saul as the usurper of intercessory functions. And the gift of healing was not so much a “transmission” from gods to men as that in this function the priest-king originally was the organ rather than the agent of the supernatural; originally the potency was not so much a delegation as a continuity. The King's Evil. By Dr. Raymond Crawfurd. Pp. 187. (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1911.) Price 8s. 6d. net.
TL;DR: The electric currents induced in the head are quite sufficient to produce the effect as mentioned in this paper, and there is no necessity to look to suggestion or other abstruse causes to account for this phenomenon.
Abstract: THERE is no necessity to look to suggestion or other abstruse causes to account for this phenomenon. The electric currents induced in the head are quite sufficient to produce the effect.
TL;DR: The main argument for this procedure is that the boys actually want to know how a crane works, whereas interest in abstract principles does not, as a rule, outcrop until the age of sixteen or seventeen years as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: THE report of the Board of Education on the above subject (see NATURE, May 4) contains many expressions of opinion with which I heartily agree. But I must beg respectfully to differ from the authors as regards the limitations, they propose to put upon the use of everyday phenomena in science teaching. The report says:—“They should, of course, be introduced as illustrations, that is to say, when, and only when, they may happen to be wanted to give point to the teaching”. This dogmatic statement ignores the fact that many well-known teachers strongly prefer the opposite mode of procedure. Upon their view a practical problem should be made the starting point, so that the development of the scientific method should follow instead of precede; e.g. from a study of the crane the class should discover the triangle of forces. The main argument for this procedure is that the boys actually want to know how a crane works, whereas interest in abstract principles does not, as a rule, outcrop until the age of sixteen or seventeen years. My own experience is distinctly in favour of the appeal to the utilitarian rather than to the scientific motive, except in the case of exceptional boys or of those above the age of seventeen.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the Du Toits Pan mine at Kimberley, South Africa, was used to extract graphite in two forms: irregular pieces up to half a pound in weight and small round pellets, which, collected together in a heap, would be mistaken for mixed shot.
Abstract: WHAT may prove to be a new mineral has been obtained from the Du Toits Pan Mine at Kimberley. The material is in two forms: irregular pieces up to half a pound in weight, and small round pellets, which, collected together in a heap, would be mistaken for mixed shot. Some specimens are dull like lead on the outside, while others have a resemblance to polished nickel. The prevailing inside texture is spongy-looking. Under the microscope some of the surfaces are seen to be pitted with holes where the spongy texture reaches the surface. On the other hand, some of the larger pieces have wrinkled surfaces, not pitted; others have bright surfaces intersected with tiny cracks. Many of the specimens are covered with a blackish coating of about the thickness of paint. This is probably graphite; it scrapes off easily enough.
TL;DR: Medical treatment of this disease, its causation having been fully developed prior to the arrival of the doctor, is directed to maintain nutrition in very adverse circumstances by expert adjustments in the diet, and to secure the elimination of the effects due to the presence of poisons.
Abstract: THE depth of the tragedy into which the most recent investigators of the disease “diabetes mellitus,” whose observations are described in the memoir referred to below, have inquired, is sufficiently indicated by the fact that seven of their ten “severe cases” have died since coming under observation in the early part of 1908. Diabetes is considered as being primarily a disturbance of nutrition tending to develop a condition of starvation, and yet it will be noted that in six of these cases the fatal result is attributed to “diabetic coma.” Diabetic coma is in no sense due to any deprivation of nutriment experienced by the central nervous system, but rather to a very real poisoning assignable to an appearance in the blooct of unusual chemical compounds or to an appearance of compounds in an unusual quantity which are normally present only in minute traces. Nutrition, in short, is not only deficient, leading to a great emaciation of the patient, but is also disordered, leading to death by internally developed poisons. Medical treatment of this disease, its causation having been fully developed prior to the arrival of the doctor, is therefore directed to maintain nutrition in very adverse circumstances by expert adjustments in the diet, and to secure the elimination, or at least neutralise, the effects due to the presence of these poisons. As a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the principles underlying such treatment, this account of the extremely precise and varied observations of Benedict and Joslin will meet with a wide welcome.
TL;DR: A series of important papers by Italian authors were presented-and taken as read-at the meeting held recently in London as mentioned in this paper, with the pen of the well-known Turin metallographer Prof. F. Giollitti, whose name proclaims his close relationship to the present Prime Minister of Italy.
Abstract: THE autumn meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute was to have taken place in Turin, but unfortunate circumstances rendered this impossible. None the less, a series of important papers by Italian authors were presented-and taken as read-at the meeting held recently in London. Most of these papers were of the nature often met with at foreign meetings of this institute-i.e. records of metallurgical resources and achievements of the country. On this occasion, however, two Italian papers of a different character were laid before the institute. These deal with the case-hardening of ste3l, and are both from the pen of the well-known Turin metallographer Prof. F. Giollitti, whose name proclaims his close relationship to the present Prime Minister of Italy.
TL;DR: Thomas et al. as mentioned in this paper described the Ibo race as a vigorous, muscular race of negroes called Ibo, a name rendered in English down to the middle of the nineteenth century Eeboe.
Abstract: LATE in the eighteenth century the European nations then most engaged in the slave trade—Britain, Holland, France, and Portugal became aware that there was a vigorous, muscular race of negroes called the Ibo—a name rendered in English down to the middle of the nineteenth century Eeboe. They fed the slave markets of Benin, and thence made their way to Brazil and the slave markets of Bonny and Calabar. When Richard Lander and his brother John completed the solution of the Niger mystery and descended the Niger from the Busa rapids to the head of its delta, they were captured by a raiding party of Ibos in canoes, and taken to the headquarters of an Ibo king. Here they were ransomed by the Ibo people of Brass (one of the Niger mouths) and thence actually conveyed to the sea-coast, whence they managed to make their way home. Anthropological Report on Ibo-Speaking Peoples of Nigeria. By N. W. Thomas. Part iv.,Law and Custom of the Ibo of the Asaba District, S. Nigeria. Pp. vi + 208. Price 4s. net. Part v., Addenda to Ibo-English Dictionary. Pp. x + 184. Price 4s. net. Part vi., Proverbs, Stories, Tones in Ibo. Pp. viii + 114. Price 4s. net. (London: Harrison and Sons, 1914.)
TL;DR: In this paper, a reconstruction of Mendel eff's "cubic" periodic system, as suggested in his famous paper “Die Beziehungen zwisehen den Eigenschaften der Elemente und ihren Atomgewichten” (Ostw. Klass., No. 68, pp. 32, 36, 37, and 74), gives a constant mean difference between consecutive atomic weights = 2, and thus, from H to U, 120 as the number of possible elements.
Abstract: ACCORDING to Rutherford's theory of “single scattering” (“On the Scattering of α and β Particles by Matter and the Structure of the Atom,” Phil. Mag., May, 1911), and to Barkla's “Note on the Energy of Scattered X-Radiation” (ibid.), the numbers of electrons per atom is half the atomic weight; thus, for U, about 120. Now, a reconstruction of Mendel eff's “cubic” periodic system, as suggested in his famous paper “Die Beziehungen zwisehen den Eigenschaften der Elemente und ihren Atomgewichten” (Ostw. Klass., No. 68, pp. 32, 36, 37, and 74), gives a constant mean difference between consecutive atomic weights =2, and thus, from H to U, 120 as the number of possible elements (van den Broek, “Das Mendelejeff'sche ‘Kubische’ Periodische System der Elemente und die Einordnung der Radioelemente in dieses System,” Physik. Zeitschr. 12, p. 490). Hence, if this cubic periodic system should prove to be correct, then the number of possible elements is equal to the number of possible permanent charges of each sign per atom, or to each possible permanent charge (of both signs) per atom belongs a possible element.
TL;DR: The Gibraltar cranium is generally regarded by anthropologists as one of the most important discoveries yet made of the Neanderthal type of man as mentioned in this paper, and its early history is imperfectly known.
Abstract: THE Gibraltar cranium is generally regarded by anthropologists as one of the most important discoveries yet made of the Neanderthal type of man. Unfortunately, its early history is imperfectly known. The two following letters help to make good this deficiency. For the first I am indebted to Colonel E. R. Kenyon, Commandant of the Royal Engineers at Gibraltar; for the second, to the Misses Busk, daughters of Mr. George Busk, F.R.S., who in 1868 presented the cranium to the Royal College of Surgeons, England, of which he was at one time president.
TL;DR: The fifteenth volume of the "Annual of the British School at Athens" as discussed by the authors is somewhat less in bulk than its immediate predecessor, and the most important articles are those which describe the continuation of the work of the school at Sparta, which has been so successful, and has conferred such great distinction upon British archaeology in Greece.
Abstract: THE fifteenth volume of the “Annual of the British School at Athens” is somewhat less in bulk than its immediate predecessor. Probably its present length is about the extreme of what is convenient for a book of this format. The most important articles, as before, are those which describe the continuation of the work of the school at Sparta, which has been so successful, and has conferred such great distinction upon British archaeology in Greece. Mr. Dawkins, the director, describes the work generally, and the conclusion of the excavation of the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia, and Mr. Droop the pottery, with regard to which he has made important discoveries which have given us quite a new idea of the history of ceramic art in the Peloponnese. The long list of inscriptions recovered in the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia is finally disposed of by Mr. A. M. Woodward, who appends to his admirable and painstaking work a series of corrections of re-discovered inscriptions which had previously been copied by Fourmont.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a scenario where the ordinary person only thinks about earthquake prediction and that which is utilitarian, whilst the principal object of the seismologist is to extend human knowledge about the interior of our planet.
Abstract: Abstract“DOS PALABRAS,” or “two little words,” has a much more friendly sound than the abrupt word “preface.” “Preface,” standing by itself, is suggestive of a snappy military command, something like “halt” or “quick march,” whilst “Dos Pala-bras” is the kindly invitation of a writer to the public, asking them to read his work. In the “Dos Palabras” we are told that the ordinary person only thinks about earthquake prediction and that which is utilitarian, whilst the principal object of the seismologist is to extend human knowledge about the interior of our planet.
TL;DR: In this article, the provisional programme of Section B (Chemistry) at the British Association meeting in Portsmouth, beginning on August 30 under the presidency of Sir William Ramsay, was discussed.
Abstract: MAY I direct attention to the following features in the provisional programme of Section B (Chemistry) at the British Association meeting in Portsmouth, beginning on August 30 under the presidency of Sir William Ramsay?
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TL;DR: The Indian Government has been well served in this matter, and advice derived so judiciously from soundly organised and ably conducted investigations as to justify what, on weaker evidence, might have seemed a parsimonious procedure.
Abstract: THE main impression left by a perusal of this exhaustive report upon the diets of labour convicts in Bengal jails, referred to below, is that the Indian Government has been well served in this matter, and has now in its possession advice derived so judiciously from soundly organised and ably conducted investigations as to justify what, on weaker evidence, might have seemed a parsimonious procedure, namely, some limitation of the too ample dietaries of these prisoners. The author may be said to have proved that their vegetarian diet, such as is the common food of the native population, has been provided in quantity so large as to escape digestion. No one will find reason to doubt his statement that this undigested material gives occasion to various forms of distressing trouble whilst in disordered transit through the alimentary canal of its consumers; not that this point is new, but that the condition has been very definitely shown as existing in this special and important case.
TL;DR: Agharkar as mentioned in this paper has recently sent me several specimens of a medusa from small streams in the Western Ghats, which were taken at so great a distance from the west coast of India, it is important to note that these specimens were obtained from a river system which flows across the Indian Peninsula and reaches the sea more than 500 miles away on the shores of the Bay of Bengal.
Abstract: MR. S. P. AGHARKAR, lecturer on biology in the Elphinstone College, Bombay, who has been kind enough to undertake the collection of fresh-water invertebrates on behalf of the Indian Museum, has recently sent me several specimens of a medusa from small streams in the Western Ghats. Although they were taken at so great a distance from the west coast of India, it is important to note that these specimens were obtained from a river-system which flows across the Indian Peninsula and reaches the sea more than 500 miles away on the shores of the Bay of Bengal. Mr. Agharkar writes as follows:—
TL;DR: In this paper, Walker's quotations from Dr. C. A. Reid's paper, Prof. Karl Pearson is represented as saying: "We inherit our parents' tempers, their consciousness, and their conscientiousness".
Abstract: IN Dr. C. Walker's quotations (NATURE, November 23 and December 7) from Dr. A. Reid's paper, Prof. Karl Pearson is represented as saying: “We inherit our parents' tempers, our parents' consciousness, c this should read: “We inherit our parents' tempers, our parents' conscientiousness”, &c. (see Journal Royal Anth. Inst., vol. xxxiii., p. 204).
TL;DR: A piece of tanned giraffe-skin in my possession, which I intend to present to the British Museum, indicates, apparently, an undescribed race of the netted giraffe (Giraffa reticulata) of Somaliland and British East Africa.
Abstract: A PIECE of tanned giraffe-skin in my possession, which I intend to present to the British Museum, indicates, apparently, an undescribed race of the netted giraffe (Giraffa reticulata) of Somaliland and British East Africa. That species is characterised by the markings taking the form of a coarse network of narrow white lines on a liver-red ground, the dark meshes being large and quadrangular on the neck, but becoming smaller and more irregular in shape on the body. There may be small white spots in the centre of the dark patches, which are otherwise uniformly coloured, even in adult bulls. In the piece of skin referred to above, which is from the forepart of the body, and came from British —probably the Kenia district—the white lines are rather wider and the dark areas smaller and brownish rufous, with a tinge of blackness, and a distinct blackish streak or star in the centre. For this giraffe, which in a slight degree tends to connect reticulata with the eastern forms of camelopardalis, the name G. reticulata nigrescens will be appropriate.