BY N. DE MIKLOUHO-MACLAY. 577 



19th of March, 1881, in which was stated, that Prof. P. Virchow 

 informed the members present at the meeting that the specimen 

 of the Homo australis " Umbelah," (alias Johny Campbell), sent 

 by me from Brisbane in October last year in a conservative fluid, 

 has safely arrived in Berlin and in good condition. This will give 

 Prof. Virchow, or his pupils, the opportunity to make valuable 

 anatomical dissections of this interesting specimen of the Genus 

 Homo. 



This happy result, which I hardly had dared to expect, induces 

 me to give here the proportions of different ingredients of this 

 solution, which is different from that of Mr. Wickerskeim of 

 Berlin. The elements of the Wickerheimer Fluid are : 



Alum . . . . 100 Kilo. Arsenious Acid . . 10 Kilo. 



Com. Salt . . 25 Boiling "Water . . 3000 



Saltpetre . . 12 Glycerine . . 1 litre. 



Carbonate of Potash 60 Methyl. Alcohol. . 1 



I have used for my preservative fluid : 



4ft) White Arsenic ^ 



2ft. Carbon, of Potash Disolved in 40 gallons of 



3ft) Corrosive sublimate. water 



40ft) Com. Salt J 



Speaking of this new solution, I must mention with thanks, 

 that Mr. P. H. Staiger, the late Gov. Anal. Cheni., has assisted 

 me with his theoretical and practical experience. I had also 

 some advice from Mr. A. C. Gregory, C.M.G. 



I have to add : that before I put the body in this solution I 

 had, cutting the covering of the abdomen in the Linea alba, 

 removed the tractus intestinalis from the cardia to the rectum, 

 leaving heart, lungs, liver, kidney, etc., etc. " in situ." I injected 

 also about 40 lb of the Wickersheimer Fluid in the Aorta 

 descendens, partly as a preservative, but chiefly in order that the 

 glycerine, one of the elements of the fluid, might keep the members 



