Show se scientific I PIN blIS miscellany CELLAN the air of london during a fog is is found to contain a largo large excess of carbonic acid over the normal proportions the french minister of the interior ajor Is is said to bo be making provision for tile widows and children of hien men who have died or been wounded while making scientific ic resea the newly completed observatory on mount etna is fees feet above tile sea level and the tile clearness s of the tile atmosphere at tit that height leads estron astronomers omers to expect some sonic important observations the chinese chinee in how hong icon kong arc ire reported to practice va vaccination c ei nation so eo thoroughly and find ef effectually that smallpox small pox never r spreads there although no port in the world is more liable to a visitation odthe of alie disease at antibus antibes An on the tile southern coast of france a remarkable lowering of the sea sent level to the extent of a foot or more was lately observed the phenomenon lasting a fortnight bligh atmospheric pressure is is th lt by M fayo faye to have been tile cause clause alth although ouli 11 na M naudin suggested an elevation odthe of the ground tides in the mediterranean are barely perceptible in juno june 1783 stephen a and ud jos Mont montgolfier sent up t the c first balloon to commemorate tho the centenary of the event it is proposed that an niter inter national al exhibition of f aerial arts be held at paris next year the aerial arts are to include every industry art delatin re relating latin to gas or the atmosphere which is is supposed to have any connection directly or indirectly with acro static experiments attention lias has been called to some sonic new facts in relation to color blind ness nus careful investigations have llave shown the chinese and the tile nubians to be practically free from the defeet defect dr roberts lias has observed vea that color blindness is most common among persons of or red hair and it i is is very prevalent among the tile jews who are the tile most decidedly red haired of all known races it is thought probable xo bable there fire that there may te be some correlation of color blindness with p pigmentation ig and indirectly with racial peculiarities sounds produce in certain individuals the impression of color this curic curious impression phenomenon I ieno menki which was first described bv by Nussbaum cr in 1873 has recently been made the tile subject of systematic study by herren bleuler and lehmann of zurich they find that the colors associated socia ted with dif different notes differ with the individuals being as a rule light for high r notes and dark for low notes chords either cause the colors which correspond to their notes to appear to the mind side by side or r div give e a mixture of those colors rs I rill same note in different keys heys changes in color and to many persons diffie different rent colors appear when the same piece is is played by different instruments noi noises coq as well as musical notes arc are accompanied lied by colors varying with the intensity and pitch of tr the ic sound of individuals divi duals examined one eighth were color hearers four persons perceived sound as a result of sensations of li liblit ailt and color A broad quietly burning gas flame led to the perception of a sound formed of iv to and a light vowel like e but when the flame flickered the sound became that of L these cases can generally bo be explained by an association of sounds with colors by the individual minds and the on is largely hereditary |