In The Course Of His Lecture Mr. Romanes Remarked That
insects are usually "more intelligent than many of the lower vertebrate," for the experiment of Professor Mobitus proved that "a pike requires three months to learn the position......
The Outbreak Of Yellow Fever In The United States, And
especially in Granada, New Orleans, Memphis, and along the course of the Mississippi, seems to be of a more fatal and alarming nature than any hitherto known. In Granada the......
"from Which," Said The Lecturer, "we See That A Pike
is very slow in forming his ideas, and then again in unforming them, thus resembling many respectable members of a higher community, who spend one-half of their lives in......
On Wednesday, Mr. G. J. Romanes Delivered Before The...
tion an address on "Animal Intelligence," which has not been well reported, but appears to have been intended to show that animal instincts are the hereditarily transmitted......
One Of Professor Huxley's Remarks On The Awful Stupidity...
by mankind in sticking to any groove of intellectual habit - which had once been found useful, received a curious illustration in the very copy of the Times in which his address......
To An Audience In The Same Section Sir John Lubbock
de- livered one of his amusing lectures on the habits of ants,—to some of the more interesting facts of which we have drawn attention in another column. Here we may add that, in......
A Great Controversy Has Been Raging As To The Proposal
that all middle-class schools should be inspected by Government In- spectors, just as all elementary schools are. Some of the head masters say it would degrade the character of......
Mr. Caird Writes To Wednesday's Times That "the Wheat Crbp
now being harvested is a full average, and the best we have had for some years." The area under wheat has increased, he says, in the United Kingdom by 50,000 acres, the total......
The Elections Of This Week To The Conseils-gdneraux Of...
seem to make a Republican majority in the Senate next January more than probable. In three Departments, the Conservative was replaced by a sound Republican, and this as the......
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