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glass, by which means he could see the differe:

conditions of the brain. He found that when the
dog was asleep the blood vessels were comparatively
empty ; the arteries lost their bright red colour, and
assumed in some degree the blue colour of the veins;
whilst the brain-tissue collapsed, leaving a space
within the skull which was filled with eerebrous
spinal fluid. When the dog was roused from slum-
ber the blood-vessels resumed their functions, and
the brain filled the -whole cavity of the skull; and
when rendered partially insensible 1)3 chloroform,
a modified ccillapse of the brain occurred. For the
purpose of showing the action of the capillary ves-
sels, through the agency of which the oxygen of the
arterial blood is distributed throughout the body
and the carbon is removed, the foot of a frog was
shown, magnified on a screen by the electric lamp,
by which means the circulation of the blood was
made visible to the whole audience. There were
also exhibited for illustration numeroue models and
diagrams of the brain, showing the ramifications of
minute blood-vessels in every part ; and it is, he
said, on the state in 'which those vessels are with
respect to the activity of the heart that the condi-
tions of sleep and of dreaming depend. The subject
of dreaming, however, Mr. Durham was obliged to
pass over almost unnoticed, in consequence of his
having occupied too much time in the preliminary
observations on the nature and effects of sleep.

7HE REVISED CODE OF EDUCA.7IOII7
THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

On Tuesday the Bishop of Oxford will present
petitions to the House of Lords against the revised
code of education, and call the attention of the house
to the proposed alterations.
On Friday next Lord Lyttelton will move the
following resolutions in the chamber of the Lords:
"1. That certificated teachers and Queen's
scholars have an equitable claim upon the Govern-
ment for the undiminished payment of the allow-
ances hitherto granted to them on certain conditions
as long as those conditions are fulfilled.
" 2. That this house approves of the principle of
public aid being given to elementary schools accord-
ing to their success in performing their work,
and also of the principle of paid assistants in
schools being engaged according to the market
value of their services from time to time ; but that
it considers that the manner in which it is proposed
in the revised code to give effect to those principles
is in some respects objectionable.
" 3. That the provisions of the Article 40, accord-
ing to which the proposed capitation grant is to be
paid .in respect of the attainments of the children
in reading, writing, and arithmetic, are not satis-
factory.
"4. That any system of public aid to schools
ought to include some specific advantage to schools
in which the branches of instruction above the ele-
ments are successfully taught.

---if 5. That the provision is section (A) Article 41,
is not satisfactory.

«6. That the diary and log book described in
Articles 50 57, if required at all, ought to be more
simply and fully explained.
" 7, That in the event of the Government aban-
doning the direct connexion which it has hitherto
maintained with pupil-teachers and other assistant
teachers in schools, it ought to be left without pre-
judice to the managers of schools to decide whether
or not they
aseitstanto," will have such pupil-teachers or