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phosphate of lime and starch. Besides, any physician 

 would testify to the medical properties of sarsaparilla in 

 certain diseases of the bones ; and this plant too, like the 

 other Dietyogens, abounds so in raphides of phosphate of 

 lime, in an organic form, that I have suggested a plenti- 

 ful course of it in those sad cases in which this salt is 

 morbidly deficient, as in the Rickets of children. Such 

 facts are among the practical applications of the subject. 



Finally, simple and plain evidence has now been adduced 

 of the novelty and importance of the cell-biography 

 plants ; and we may conclude that, without a discrimina- 

 tive recognition of this subject, both in its physiological 

 bearings, and as presenting intrinsic and essential charac- 

 ters in systematic botany, no fair and complete history can 

 ever be written of the Vegetable Kingdom. 



Valuable microscopes were lent for the occasion by 

 Colonel Horsley, Colonel Cox, and Mr. flarvey. The lec- 

 turer showed the method of making the preparations or 

 dissections, of the choice of plants and suitable parts, and 

 of the easiest means of subjecting them to microscopic 

 examination ; and so the subjects under discussion were 

 thus amply and practically illustrated. Colonel Horsley 

 exhibited the crystal prisms subjected to polarized light, 

 while the raphides, sphseraphides, and other objects were 

 under view with the other microscopes. At the conclusion 

 of the meeting, a vote of thanks to Mr. Gulliver, for his 

 agreeable and instructive lecture and demonstrations, was 

 proposed by Colonel Hoesley, seconded by Mr. Dowkeb, 

 and cordially carried. 



