Genre:

News-Digest, Spoof

Subjects:

Societies, Sanitation, Public Health, Ornithology, Comparative Philology, Archaeology, Human Species, Extinction

    Spoof digest of proceedings at London's scientific societies. Reports that 'scientific circles' are discussing the possibility of thwarting London's worsening sanitary condition by means of 'mountain breezes conveyed fresh through silicated tubes from healthy districts direct to the Metropolis'. Reports Professor Ospray's paper at the Oological Society, on the amount of albumen in the Kittiwake's egg, and the 'sharp discussion' following an exhibition at the 'Acumenical' of some flint toys 'found in the lake nurseries of the ancient Hyperboreans'. Reports that the Cosmoramic Society will present news of an extinct human race, lately encountered in the 'heart of the Sunderbands', whose members have no ear-lobes.