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legitimate pursuit of knowledge, and we predict that this last utterance will have no i influence whatever in lessening the contributions to the I Prince of Wales’s Fund. The Society for the Prevent tiori of Cruelty to Animals can point with some pride
side of the head, and at the operation a large endothelioma was removed. This apparently grew from the dura mater, and covered a large area of the convexity of the hemisphere and compressed the central region and the gyrus fornicatus. Death followed from shock.
SOCIETY
arresting a
the
t venture to
to the successful crusade which it has forwarded.
The
anti-vivisection societies have had no solid success, and n never can have any. One conviction would do more than AT a meeting of this society held on March 6th Mr. John millions of silly handbills and leaflets. The medical proBirkett, F,L.S., in the chair, the Duke of Bedford, Sir G.fession fE equally with the public would rejoice at the punishHamond Græme, Bart., and nineteen others were elected ment n of the perpetrators of the atrocities which Mr. A paper was read by Mr. Martindale Fellows. calling Coleridge C alleges take place daily and hourly. But until attention to the great desirability of establishing in London ssuch conviction has been obtained we must continue in our an institution for the purpose of teaching botany similar to bbelief that Mr. Coleridge’s statement is absolutely devoid of those in existence on the Continent, and proposing that the a foundation whatever. any Council should take charge of the scheme and utilise a portion of their ground for the erection of the necessary OPEN ( SPACES ABOUT BUILDINGS IN LONDON. buildings. From its central position and the fact of all the DR. J. F. J. SYKES, medical officer of health of St. Pancras requisite material for study being at hand in a living conhas presented to the vestry a valuable report on the I dition, no other site in or near London would be so suitable parish, and duties of the vestry in relation to the inspection I for the purpose. The great fault of the present systempowers cof tenement houses, a term which, as defined in the existing of botanical teaching in England outside the medical in lodgings or schools and universities was that too much attention by-laws of the vestry, denotes houses "let coccupied by members of more than one family," and was given to botany solely with the object of enabling " ’ tenement’ means any room or rooms in a tenement house students to pass examinations, while economic and 1 let as a dwelling or lodging or for the use or occupation of a physiological botany was scarcely touched upon. If a young tenant." t In commenting on the by-laws which direct that German were desirous of emigrating, previously to doing C400 cubic feet of air must be available for each person so he could attend a short course at one of the institutions ( a room used both as a sleeping apartment and at home and learn all that would be of most use to himoccupying for some other purpose," while 300 cubic feet are deemed about the grasses, fruits, and vegetable products of the sufficient for each occupant of a room used exclusively as a, country he proposed to settle in ; but in England there was): ’" Dr. Sykes recommends the adoption of no such means of acquiring knowledge of this kind, and it sleeping apartment, a single minimum standard of cubic space, and suggests was for the purpose of supplying such a deficiency that the ‘ establishment of the institute was proposed. Among those, 400 cubic feet for all purposes, two children under ten being reckoned as one adult. An addendum to this present who gave the scheme their hearty support wereyears J deals with the subject of open spaces about buildings, Professor Oliver of University College, Mr. D. H. Scott ofreport :and contains the disquieting statement that there is Kew, Professor Henslow, Professor Greenish, Mr. M. a prospect that in course of time the whole of the open Carteighe and Mr. E. M. Holmes of the Pharmaceutical spaces about buildings may disappear." It seems that Society. according to the London Building Act, 1894, in a new domestic building abutting upon an old street the open space A SUCCESSFUL SOCIETY!! to be provided to the building may be entirely covered in up " MR. STEPHEN COLERIDGE, on behalf of a so-called antit a level of sixteen feet above the adjoining pavement, to vivisection " society, has written to His Royal Highness the and the consequence of this permission is that old houses Prince of Wales concerning °’ hapless dumb animals"in 1 yards, areas, or open spaces in some form at the t possessing London " that daily and ho?crly are slowly cut up alive without front or back, or both, are being rebuilt in such a manner even th e pretence of anæsthetics." It is needless to say that any that the whole of the previously vacant area is covered with such proceeding is wholly illegal, and we are inclined to ask; The a structure having a height of two or three storeys. how it is that a society which has collected subscriptions the Council of and and County regulations sanitary from the public for many years past has not succeeded in by-laws authorities are devised so as to cause drainage to be excluded convicting the criminals who are guilty of such atrocities.from or placed outside of domestic buildings, but they seem t Mr. Coleridge is, we believe, a trained lawyer, and must to be rendered useless by a Building Act which enables a know that "hearsay"is not evidence, and we hopee domestic building to embrace the whole of the drainage of that he would not venture to make such a statement to the premises within its external walls. the Heir Apparent unless he believed he were prepared to justify not merely the general import but the letter of it. Mr. Coleridge appears to us to be on the horns TAKA-DIASTASE IN DYSPEPSIA AND GOUT. of a dilemma. If he has knowledge of animals being " cut at TAKA-DIASTASE is an inodorous brown powder which acts up alive without even the pretence of anæsthetics," he and energetically on starch, it and converting it into digesting his society are morally particeps criminis unless they make sugar. Its discovery was the result of a lengthy investigaan attempt to obtain a conviction. If he has no such knowtion undertaken by a Japanese chemist named Takamine, 1e ledge, he has attempted on inadequate ground to deprive the who, while engaged in laboratory work in Glagow under sick poor, whose welfare the Prince of Wales has so keenly at Professor Mills, F.R.S., was led to study the phenomena of heart, of the stream of charity which is flowing towards them. and subsequently continued his researches in n. But we take it that Mr. Coleridge has not succeeded in malting, In the result he found that a fungus, Eurotium Japan. misleading anybody, and his amiable utterances will be oryzæ, cf the Aspergillus family, when grown upon common he regarded as merely due to poetic phrenzy gone sour. The bran, has a remarkable power of producing diastase, which anti-vivisection societies by their intemperate and exaggerated ad can be separated from the bran by washing and percolation. statements have gradually rendered the public immune to A full account of the nature and properties of the new subthe poison which they are engaged in disseminating. They ey stance has already appeared in our columns.l Diastase st have never obtained a conviction for any offence against 1 THE the Vivisection Act. They have not succeeded, happily, in LANCET, May 25th, 1896, p. 1332. ROYAL BOTANIC
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legitimate pursuit of knowledge, and we predict that this last utterance will have no i influence whatever in lessening the contributions to the I Prince of Wales’s Fund. The Society for the Prevent tiori of Cruelty to Animals can point with some pride
side of the head, and at the operation a large endothelioma was removed. This apparently grew from the dura mater, and covered a large area of the convexity of the hemisphere and compressed the central region and the gyrus fornicatus. Death followed from shock.
SOCIETY
arresting a
the
t venture to
to the successful crusade which it has forwarded.
The
anti-vivisection societies have had no solid success, and n never can have any. One conviction would do more than AT a meeting of this society held on March 6th Mr. John millions of silly handbills and leaflets. The medical proBirkett, F,L.S., in the chair, the Duke of Bedford, Sir G.fession fE equally with the public would rejoice at the punishHamond Græme, Bart., and nineteen others were elected ment n of the perpetrators of the atrocities which Mr. A paper was read by Mr. Martindale Fellows. calling Coleridge C alleges take place daily and hourly. But until attention to the great desirability of establishing in London ssuch conviction has been obtained we must continue in our an institution for the purpose of teaching botany similar to bbelief that Mr. Coleridge’s statement is absolutely devoid of those in existence on the Continent, and proposing that the a foundation whatever. any Council should take charge of the scheme and utilise a portion of their ground for the erection of the necessary OPEN ( SPACES ABOUT BUILDINGS IN LONDON. buildings. From its central position and the fact of all the DR. J. F. J. SYKES, medical officer of health of St. Pancras requisite material for study being at hand in a living conhas presented to the vestry a valuable report on the I dition, no other site in or near London would be so suitable parish, and duties of the vestry in relation to the inspection I for the purpose. The great fault of the present systempowers cof tenement houses, a term which, as defined in the existing of botanical teaching in England outside the medical in lodgings or schools and universities was that too much attention by-laws of the vestry, denotes houses "let coccupied by members of more than one family," and was given to botany solely with the object of enabling " ’ tenement’ means any room or rooms in a tenement house students to pass examinations, while economic and 1 let as a dwelling or lodging or for the use or occupation of a physiological botany was scarcely touched upon. If a young tenant." t In commenting on the by-laws which direct that German were desirous of emigrating, previously to doing C400 cubic feet of air must be available for each person so he could attend a short course at one of the institutions ( a room used both as a sleeping apartment and at home and learn all that would be of most use to himoccupying for some other purpose," while 300 cubic feet are deemed about the grasses, fruits, and vegetable products of the sufficient for each occupant of a room used exclusively as a, country he proposed to settle in ; but in England there was): ’" Dr. Sykes recommends the adoption of no such means of acquiring knowledge of this kind, and it sleeping apartment, a single minimum standard of cubic space, and suggests was for the purpose of supplying such a deficiency that the ‘ establishment of the institute was proposed. Among those, 400 cubic feet for all purposes, two children under ten being reckoned as one adult. An addendum to this present who gave the scheme their hearty support wereyears J deals with the subject of open spaces about buildings, Professor Oliver of University College, Mr. D. H. Scott ofreport :and contains the disquieting statement that there is Kew, Professor Henslow, Professor Greenish, Mr. M. a prospect that in course of time the whole of the open Carteighe and Mr. E. M. Holmes of the Pharmaceutical spaces about buildings may disappear." It seems that Society. according to the London Building Act, 1894, in a new domestic building abutting upon an old street the open space A SUCCESSFUL SOCIETY!! to be provided to the building may be entirely covered in up " MR. STEPHEN COLERIDGE, on behalf of a so-called antit a level of sixteen feet above the adjoining pavement, to vivisection " society, has written to His Royal Highness the and the consequence of this permission is that old houses Prince of Wales concerning °’ hapless dumb animals"in 1 yards, areas, or open spaces in some form at the t possessing London " that daily and ho?crly are slowly cut up alive without front or back, or both, are being rebuilt in such a manner even th e pretence of anæsthetics." It is needless to say that any that the whole of the previously vacant area is covered with such proceeding is wholly illegal, and we are inclined to ask; The a structure having a height of two or three storeys. how it is that a society which has collected subscriptions the Council of and and County regulations sanitary from the public for many years past has not succeeded in by-laws authorities are devised so as to cause drainage to be excluded convicting the criminals who are guilty of such atrocities.from or placed outside of domestic buildings, but they seem t Mr. Coleridge is, we believe, a trained lawyer, and must to be rendered useless by a Building Act which enables a know that "hearsay"is not evidence, and we hopee domestic building to embrace the whole of the drainage of that he would not venture to make such a statement to the premises within its external walls. the Heir Apparent unless he believed he were prepared to justify not merely the general import but the letter of it. Mr. Coleridge appears to us to be on the horns TAKA-DIASTASE IN DYSPEPSIA AND GOUT. of a dilemma. If he has knowledge of animals being " cut at TAKA-DIASTASE is an inodorous brown powder which acts up alive without even the pretence of anæsthetics," he and energetically on starch, it and converting it into digesting his society are morally particeps criminis unless they make sugar. Its discovery was the result of a lengthy investigaan attempt to obtain a conviction. If he has no such knowtion undertaken by a Japanese chemist named Takamine, 1e ledge, he has attempted on inadequate ground to deprive the who, while engaged in laboratory work in Glagow under sick poor, whose welfare the Prince of Wales has so keenly at Professor Mills, F.R.S., was led to study the phenomena of heart, of the stream of charity which is flowing towards them. and subsequently continued his researches in n. But we take it that Mr. Coleridge has not succeeded in malting, In the result he found that a fungus, Eurotium Japan. misleading anybody, and his amiable utterances will be oryzæ, cf the Aspergillus family, when grown upon common he regarded as merely due to poetic phrenzy gone sour. The bran, has a remarkable power of producing diastase, which anti-vivisection societies by their intemperate and exaggerated ad can be separated from the bran by washing and percolation. statements have gradually rendered the public immune to A full account of the nature and properties of the new subthe poison which they are engaged in disseminating. They ey stance has already appeared in our columns.l Diastase st have never obtained a conviction for any offence against 1 THE the Vivisection Act. They have not succeeded, happily, in LANCET, May 25th, 1896, p. 1332. ROYAL BOTANIC
OF LONDON.
n
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.
.
.
;
.
.
,
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