. : ■■'■ ^ " ' Scientific Intelligence. — Botany. S07 



here recorded, was drawn up by Mr Trevelyan*'s grandfather, 

 and appeared in the Newcastle Courant, of the 21st October last. 

 35. Gigantic Orang Outang. — A female of the Gigantic 

 Orang Outang, has lately been met with in Sumatra, and brought 

 from thence to Calcutta, where it has been examined and de- 

 scribed by Dr Abel. 



BOTANY. 



86. Irish Furze, Broom, and Yew. — It is not generally 

 known that Ireland possesses varieties of the furze, the broom, 

 and the yew, very different from any yet found in Great Bri- 

 tain. The Ulex europcens of Ireland is more upright in its 

 growth than the common plant, more compact, but much softer, 

 and scarcely prickly to the touch. The Irish broom is very re- 

 markable, and seems to be really a different species from Cytisus 

 scoparius, (Spartium scoparium, auct.^. This is characterized 

 by the pod being glabrous on the sides, but furnished with a 

 margin of short woolly hair. The Irish one has the pod so to- 

 tally covered with long woolly hairs, as to appear at a distance 

 like balls of white cotton. It in all probability will be found to 

 be Cytisus grandijlorus, a species hitherto found only in Portu- 

 gal. Lastly, The Irish yew is merely a shrub ; the leaves are 

 not distichous, as in the common Taocus baccati, but are quater- 

 nate. Of all the three, the British varieties are also found in 

 Ireland, the above mentioned being rare. 



ARTS. 



37. Easy mode of Cutting Glass. — Mr Buchner of Mayence 

 describes in the Archives of the Society of Phannacy of Nor- 

 thern Germany, a method of cutting glass, which is as follows: 

 A thin card, one, two or three inches broad, is glued to the 

 glass in such a manner, as to cover the line in which the frac- 

 ture is intended to follow, in its whole extent. When the card is 

 dry, a line is traced upon it by means of an iron or steel point, 

 taking care to cut it down to the glass. In this groove a thread 

 is then placed of a line and a half or two lines diameter, and 

 brought round the vessel. The latter is steadied, and two people 

 laying hold of the extremities of the thread, move it rapidly 

 backward and forward upon the glass. In less than a minute,. 



