320 SCIENTIFIC NEVV3. 



Conroerfion of Pieces of Cloth impregnated icith a Solution of 

 Salt into Soap of Wool, hi/ the AdVon of the Galvanic Pile, 



% Br U GNAT EL LI. 



Cloth wctte<J I HAVE exarained the fingular alteration produced in the 



with fait and bj^g ^f ^i^^^ wetted With a folution of fait, interpofed between 



water, ukd n . . / 



thegalvanicpile,-thedilks of copper and zmc arranged in the pile, and I have 

 is converted inio found, that they are at length converted entirely into fo^p of 



foap of woo) ; , "^ " ' "^ * 



the muriate WOol. 



being decom- On this occafion, the muriate of fbda is decompofed by the 



«?nc which is ^^"^* ^'^^^ '^ continual!)' undergoing oxidation, and the foda, 

 oxided, and the fcparated by this decompofition, attacks the wool, and forms 



foda combining vv^th it foap. 



. THE Work of Mr. Parkmfon, of Hoxton, on the organic 

 remains ojF the former world, is in confiderable forwardnefs. 

 The firft part on the foffils of the vegetable kingdom, illuf- 

 trated with colpured plates, in quarto, is propofed to be pub- 

 lifhed on the firft of June next. 



