The substance of a paper on "Crop Pests and Diseases" given by C. T. Gemingham before the British Association last year forms an interesting and not too technical article.
The other articles are "The Hydrogen Bond and other links between Molecules" by Dr. Robertson, of the Davy Faraday Laboratory, "The Directional Sensitivity of the Retina" by Dr. Styles, of the National Physical Laboratory, and "Molecules and Surfaces," an appreciation of the work of Irvine Langmuir by Professor Adam, of Southampton.
Recent advances in nine branches The more one reads the fewer traces docs what is read leave on the mind. It is like a tablet on which many things have been written over one another.—ScHOPENHAUER, Our higher moral faculties, like our higher intellectual ones, are comparatively complex. By consequence they are both comparatively late in their evolution. And with the one as with the other, a very early activity produced by stimulation will be at the expense of the future character.—
HERBERT SPENCER.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.