6. Wet hand towels suspended in a room are insufficient.

7. Of all the methods tested, the most efficient seemed to be to hang up

a number of wet cloths on a winch or some contrivance that permits

of turning them, so as to hasten their giving out moisture to the

air.--_Med. Zeitung_.

* * * * *

[The following article is from the June number of the _American

Naturalist_, edited by Prof. A. S. Packard, Jr., and Prof. E. D. Cope.

Published by McCalla & Stavely, Philadelphia, Pa.]

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