fi£ sfclfcNTIFIC NEWS. 



Prefervation of Succulent Plants. 

 Whether (lie facl be generally in pofleflion of the collectors 

 of plants I know not, but it will certainly be inftruclive to 

 many readers to be informed that green fucculent plants are 

 much better preferved after a momentary immerfion in boiling 

 water than otherwife. This treatment, which I am told is 

 adopted for the economical prefervation of cabbage and other 

 plants which are dried for keeping, deftroys the vegetable life 

 at once, and feems to prevent an after procefs of decay or 

 mortification, by which the plant would have been more con- 

 fiderably changed, if it had not been ib fuddenly killed. 



Corrections to the 1 \th Volume. 



P. 1 59, I. 2, area r. era. — 1. 2 1 , Agy r. Acjy. — 1 .36, qxp—2* 

 r# qJ^-p — <2n. — 1. 12, for r. of. — 1. 23, put a comma before 

 that. — p. 2.36, 1. 20 from the bottom, after the words preferved 

 a* add as perfecl as poffible, but the prefs recommended by Dr. 

 Withering does not appear calculated, fyc. — 



Dr. BoftocVs eflay upon animal fluids which was communi- 

 cated by the author and inferted in our laft number, appeared 

 alfo in the third number of (he Edinburgh Medical and Surgical 

 Journal. This by a cafual omiffion of the friend who for- 

 warded me manufcript was not intimated to me until fevs- 

 jaldays after the paper came to hand. 



