Miscellaneous, Iggf 



Mr. John Ayrton Paris, of Caius College, Cambridge, 

 and fellow of the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh, ha» 

 now in the press, A Compendium of Modern Chemistry, in 

 the Latin Language; — a small work intended as the J^ofz^j 

 Achates of the medical as well as chemical ph.loiopher. It 

 treats not only of the principal subjects in chemistry, but 

 unfolds the processes by which the different compounds of 

 the London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeise are prepared, 

 and the theories upon which such operations are founded. 

 The analyses also of animal and vegetable bodies are as fully 

 given as the prescribed limits of a compendium will allow. — 

 This work will also afford easy instructions for the disciple of 

 the Stahlean school to become the proselyte of Lavoisier, — 

 The language in which it is written, will, it is hoped, render 

 it no inconsiderable assistant to those desirous of writincr or 



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speaking medical Latin. And if it be remembered that no 

 such publication has appeared in the chemical department 

 subsequent to Boerhaave, the hope may not be presump- 

 tuous. 



CULTIVATION OF INDIGO IN FRANCE. 



i,.; A proceS'Verhal oi the municipality of Lille, in the de- 

 partment of Vaucluse, has lately stated the success of a 

 plantation of indigo, executed on a large scale and in the 

 the open air at an estate belonging to M. Icard de Bataglini, 

 an agriculturalist. It is stated in the Proces-verbal, that 

 after an attentive examination of the indigo produced, the 

 commissioners were of opinion that this precious plant may 

 be naturalized in the department, and become a principal 

 source of its riches. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



New Method of takhig Stains out of Linen. — Lemon-juice 

 has generally been employed for this purpose ; — but a German 

 journal devoted to subjects of rural oeconomy, and edited 

 .by M. Schnee, gives another more ceconomical, but not 

 less certain, method, by means of aqua fortis. One or two 

 drops are sufficient for taking out a large spot of ink with- 

 «^ut damaging the linen : it is only necessary previously to 



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