as part of the moral order on the one hand and as pathological phenomena on the other. Dr. Riese writes interestingly of his seventeenth century theorists, and the reader will find much of what he has to say rewarding, especially with respect to the work of medical men so little known as de la Forge and de la Chambre. Rather than praise the obvious merits of Dr. Riese's monograph, however, I sh...

between sound and meaning within vast possible variations in the items under comparison, reducing the possibility of chance similarity. In contrast, there is a 'poverty of choice' of some other language features. " For example there are only six permutations for the ordering of the subject, object and verb that a language can use. Accordingly, there is a one in six chance that any two languages...

habitats directives. It is the fi rst such report to include EU-wide data on bird populations and the second one on habitat quality. While just over half of European bird species are listed as “secure”, the report fi nds that one in three European bird species is now threatened, including formerly common species such as the skylark and the turtle dove, whose populations shrank by 50 and 80%, re...

of crime ! He fell by the hand of a friend and boon companion. Six months after, on the 27th of May, 1856, providentially for the ends of justice and the interests of society, the perpetrator of this foul murder was convicted and sentenced to execution; and, on the 14th of last month, he, in the presence of 50,000 persons, suffered an ignominious death upon the scaffold. We might well leave him...

DOCTOR FLEETWOOD has apparently spent some hAppy years in browsing through the medical archives of Ireland, and has presented to us a book which is not wvithout interest, although, in hiis own words, it is "not an exhaustive account of Irish medical practice throughout the centuries. " The opening chapters dealing with earlier history are full of interest and pleasantly written. We find that he...

A model including detailed gas phase chemistry previously applied to nitrate ester and nitramine solid propellants and their major ingredients has been successfully applied to the pure energetic ingredient nitroguanidine and to M30, a triple base propellant which contains nitroguanidine. This is the first modeling of either based on a detailed gas phase mechanism. Computed burning rates are in ...

Ttiic greater the man the greater are his potentialities for good or for evil, and in many instances for both good and evil. The influence of many great men lias been during their lifttime almost entirely good, yet much harm has been done in their names through the unreasoning hero-worship of posterity. For fifteen hundred years, commencing from the second century of the Christian era, the teac...

The much-agitated question respecting this man's moral and legal responsibility has been determinately and irrevocabty settled by the public executioner! William Dove was hanged on the 8th of August. On the evening of the 1st of August the editor of this journal had a lengthened interview with Mr. Barret, Dove s solicitor, and Mr. Morley, one of the witnesses for the Crown. Mr. Morley was only ...

j This is one of the 11 Masters of Medicine" series, the introductory volume of which we reviewed in March. Everything as been done to make the record of the life of this truly great ^>an as complete as possible ; and although the material at the author's disposal was somewhat scanty, yet we have a consecutive and very readable biography supplemented by wellhosen extracts from Harvey's works. T...