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is about thirty — of sedentary pursuits, and a delicate state of health, having for 

 two years previous suffered from acute rheumatism and neuralgic affections, with 

 peculiar symptoms. 



Cure of Cancer. — At the sitting of the Academy of Sciences, Paris, Jan. 13, 

 1838, MM. Baupherthuy and Adelbe-Roseville addressed to the academy a 

 detailed note on the animalcule which are found in the contiguity of cancerous 

 ulcers. These observations have proved the presence of animalcule in all the 

 cancers which they have examined. These gentlemen have sought the means 

 which are best fitted to destroy the animalcule, and their experiments have led 

 them to the following results : — brandy, the tincture of iodine, concentrated 

 solutions of the double chloride of mercury, of the chloride of gold, of arsenic, of 

 the salts of copper, of the nitrate of silver, the laudanum of Sydenham and 

 Rosseau, kill the animalcule instantaneously. Solutions of the same agents, in 

 the dose of two grains to the ounce, do not make their action felt on the animal- 

 cule before the end of a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes, but destroy them 

 insensibly after a space of time more or less long. — Journal de Paris. 



Mode of Destroying Snails. — These creatures are passionately fond of bran, 

 or the outward skin of Wheat. When this food is placed out for them they 

 leave it as seldom as possible, and when they do retire for a time they return 

 most eagerly again to feed on it. This suggests a mode of freeing any piece of 

 ground of the insect. You have only to place over it little heaps of bran, pieces of 

 broken pipes, or pots, or vessels of any kind, which may shelter the food from the 

 rain, and your work is done. The Snails will congregate below, and you can in 

 a short time destroy multitudes of them. — Blackburn Gazette, June 13, 1838. 



Arcturus Sparshalli taken at Horning. — Another Arcturus Sparshalli was 

 taken last year, having settled, I believe, on the outside of a boat there ; it was 

 crushed before it was noticed. — J. C. Dale, Glanville's Wootion, Dorsetshire, 

 July 9, 1837. 



The Snow Bunting (Plectrophanes nivalis) occurs near this town in its varied 

 plumage. — Patrick Hawkridge, Scarborough, Aug. 7, 1837- 



Osprey shot near Bury. — A few days since, Mr. Th»mas Bridge, farmer, 

 Pilsworth, near Bury, shot an Osprey or Sea-eagle in a field near his own 

 house. Its expanded wings measure five feet seven inches, and from head to 

 tail one foot ten inches. It is a male bird, and had in its crop a fish weighing 

 six and a half ounces. It is now being stuffed at Mr. Robert Turner's, top of 

 Hebers, Middleton.— York Herald, May 26, 1838. 



New Birds. — Three new genera of birds, hitherto entirely unknown to science, 

 have been sent from Madagascar by M. Bernier, to the Museum of Natural 

 History in Paris. M. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire has named them Phi' 

 lepitta, Oriolia, and Mesites. The latter is the most curious, as it bears affinity 



