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IX. MISCELLANEOUS. We regret to record the death, at Oxford, Sept, 24, 1883, at an advanced age, of Mr. T. Collyns Simon, well known as the author of The Nature and Elements of the External World, 1848, and as the offerer of a prize of 100 for the first conclusive disproof, within a year from that date, of the Berke- leyan doctrine of Universal Immaterialism, the judges to be men of recog- nised philosophical attainment named by the refutant himself. Descended from a Huguenot family, Collyns Simon was born at Cork in or about the year 1813. He kept nearly all his terms at Oxford, but owing to ill health did not proceed to a degree. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him later by the University of Edinburgh. Latterly he resided much abroad, and had many friends among the leading Professors of philo- sophy, both in Germany and Italy. He contributed largely at one time to the Zeitsclirift fur Philosophie d-c., edited by Ulrici. But it was in Italy that lie resided longest, where he counted amongst his friends the veteran Count Mamiani, SS. Bonatelli, Ferri, Bertini, Florentine, and others, and contributed repeatedly to the Filosofia delle Scuole Italiane. To the Con- temporary Review he contributed the striking articles on "The present state of Metaphysics in Great Britain," in June, 1868, and two in January and March, 1870, on " Hegel and his connexion with British Thought ". We are glad to learn that an early republication of these and many of his shorter writings is in contemplation. Barely is a life so entirely and consistently devoted to philosophy as was that of Collyns Simon. Those too who had the privilege of knowing him personally will not easily forget the uniform gentleness, courteousness, and chivalry of his character, or (in later days) that serene and venerable aspect which seemed an almost ideal presentment of philosophic age. The Fifth Session of the Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy was opened on Monday evening, Oct. 15, at 8 John Street, Adelphi, with an address from the President, Mr. Shadworth H. Hodgson, on " The two Senses of ' Reality ' ". The two following meetings, held on alternate Mondays, were devoted to papers by Dr. A. Senier, Hon. Sec., and Mr. E. Hawksley Rhodes, Vice-President, on Berkeley's New Theory of Vision ; and the two following to papers by Miss S. Wood and Mr. A. M. Ogilvie, on Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge. The reading was followed in each case by a discussion, turning in the first instance upon the meaning of the portion of Berkeley introduced by the paper, and then proceeding to more general questions concerning the nature and value of Berkeley's philosophy as a whole. It is proposed to devote the remainder of the Session to a similar study of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, except that some few meetings, including the first on Jan. 7th, will be reserved for the discussion of original communications. The bi-monthly journal, La Philosophie positive, founded in 1867 by MM. Littre and Wyrouboff, and since Littre's death carried on by MM. Robin and Wyrouboff, announces that it will come to an end with the No. just issued. The editors give as the reason for their decision to suspend publication, that at the present time philosophical studies are discredited and men's minds are mainly occupied with questions of a practical order. They add indeed what hardly consists with the other statement tbat, as the positivist philosophy has now spread far beyond the limits of a school,