. Popular science monthly. ame a professor in the Liver-pool Institution. He was appointed to theMuseum in Edinburgh in 1860. Among hisscientific publications are a text-book on Economic Botany, and papers before theRoyal Society of Edinburgh on Graphitein Siberia, on an undescribed variety offlexible sandstone, on Two Species of Fora-minifera, and on some objects from theNicobar Islands of great ethnological inter-est. Mr. Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, whosename is inseparably associated with the ba-sic or Thomas-Gilclirist process for makingsteel from phosphoric pig-iron, died in Parison the 1st
. Popular science monthly. ame a professor in the Liver-pool Institution. He was appointed to theMuseum in Edinburgh in 1860. Among hisscientific publications are a text-book on Economic Botany, and papers before theRoyal Society of Edinburgh on Graphitein Siberia, on an undescribed variety offlexible sandstone, on Two Species of Fora-minifera, and on some objects from theNicobar Islands of great ethnological inter-est. Mr. Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, whosename is inseparably associated with the ba-sic or Thomas-Gilclirist process for makingsteel from phosphoric pig-iron, died in Parison the 1st of February. He was educatedat Dulwich College, England, and was in-tended for the medical profession, but en-teied the civil service, while he kept up allhis life a strong interest in the study ofchemistry. The first announcement of thediscovery in iron-working which he and hisrelative, Mr. Gilchrist, had made, was givenin a paper which he read before the Ironand Steel Institute in 1878, On the Elimi-nation of ALFRED E. BREHM. THE POPULAR SCIENCEMONTHLY. JUNE, ia85. AKE WE TO BECOME AFKICAKIZED? By HENEY GANNETT. DURING- the past few months the presence of the negro in theUnited States, his future, and his possible influence upon oursocial and political fabric, have become a fertile subject of far the argument has tended entirely in one direction, all writersseeming to be agreed that the country is rapidly getting into a badway, by reason of its millions of black laborers. Various remedieshave been prescribed, all of them more or less difficult to apply. It would appear that the wisest course to pursue would be to firststudy the case thoroughly, and make sure that the alleged patient isreally ill, before pouring into him any nauseous draughts. It is pos-sible that he is merely a hypochondriac. In The Popular Science Monthly for February, 1883, there ap-peared an article by Professor E. W. Gilliam, entitled The Africanin the United States, in which,
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