Mr. Mayo on Human Physiology, 101 



The remarks which follow show that the adjacent cellular 

 texture is equally impo¥^nt in the reparation of cartilage 

 and of bone ; a conclusion, the justness of which is borne out 

 by (at the same time that it seems to explain) the want of 

 bony union in fractures of the neck of the femur within the 

 capsule. 



We have thus given a few extracts or the substance of a few 

 passages in Mr. Mayo's Outlines of Physiology : but it is not 

 possible to convey, by these means, a just notion of the merits 

 of a systematic work ; and we recommend those who are 

 interested in medical science, to peruse for themselves the 

 volume to which we have thus called their attention. 



Report on the subject of Weights and Measures made to the 

 Commissioners for Revising the Laws of the State of New 

 York. By James Renwick, Professor of Natural Philosophy 

 and Chemistry in Columbia College. 



[Communicated by the Author, with the consent of the Commis- 

 sioners to whom it is addressed.] 



(1.) It is conceived that it would be inexpedient, indeed it may 

 be said, impossible, to change the present denominations of 

 weight and measure. The terms foot, yard, pound, ounce, 

 bushel, gallon, quart, &c. are identified with our language ; and 

 it would be as easy to subvert the form and dialect of our ordi- 

 nary colloquial speech, as to introduce new standards of weight 

 and measure, with new names. All that could reasonably be 

 attempted, is to refer the units of the several denominations to 

 some measure in nature, constant, determinate and easily deter- 

 minable, making such slight changes, not appreciable in the 

 transactions of trade, as will tend to the facility of this determi- 

 nation ; and, in addition, the means by which the accuracy of 

 existing standards may be tested in future times, or the standards 

 themselves restored, if lost, must be defined. To do more 

 would be to attempt what is wholly beyond the reach of legisla- 

 tive power. 



That this view of the subject is correct, may be shown by an 

 appeal to the experience of the people of France. At the 

 breaking out of the Revolution in that country, the steps neces- 

 sary to form a system of weights and measures entirely different 



