<520 SCIENTIFIC NEWSI* 



Jacksoniaii The Royal College of Surgeons in London have awarded 



preiaiiuB, the Jacksonian premium of j^lO, and an extraordinary pre- 

 mium of £lO, to Mr. John Smith Soden, of Coventry, and 

 to Mr. James Gillman, of Highgate, both members of that 

 college, for their dissertations on the Bite of a Rabid Animat, 

 from the consideration, that such two dissertations are highly 

 meretorious productions, and are equally worthy of the 

 Jacksonian prize. 



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Cotton manu- The cultivation of cotton, and its manufacture, are said 

 f^toiy la ^Q Y)e carrying on to a considerable extent in Italy. 



Vessel of a Mr. Daubusson de la Feuillade has exhibited on a canal 



near Paris a model of a vessel of his invention. The model 

 was 25 feet long, 52 inches broad, and did not draw 5 inches, 

 of water. The inventor proposes to builcl one 200 feet long, 

 and 50 feet beam*, which ia to carry 66 guns. It is to 

 have four masts, be deep waisted, and with two thousand 

 men, and provision for 50 days, would draw only 91 f*?et of 

 water. It will sail faster, and lie nearer the wind, than 

 any other vessel. Its sails are to turn quite round, and 

 cither end may be made the stem or stern at pleasure, so as to 

 render tacking unnecessuiryf. In a dead caim a rame aspi^ 

 rante is to supply the want of wind, Cork sheathing, and 

 airvessels of copper, afe to be employed, to render it inca- 

 pable of being sunk. Its intention is to surprise an enemy''* 

 harbour. 



Valuable writ- An inkmaker at Paris professes to have discovered a 

 inj Ink, vegetable flukl ink, which never thickens or loses in any 



degree its fluidity by evaporation, is always free from sedi- 

 ment, and never occasions iron moulds, or in any way in- 

 jures linen or clothes, that may be accidentally soiled with 

 it. He adds, that what is written with it never becomcB^ 

 yellow by age. Sonnini says, that he has long used this 

 new ink made by his neighbour, Mr. Alphonsus Wee, and 

 that it possesses the', qualities ascribed to it. 



♦ This is not proportional to the model. C. 



•f^ The inventor appears from this to hare but little knowledge oCruiU 

 gating a ship. C. 



