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SIXTH ORDINARY MEETING. 



Royal Institution, 11th January, 1858. 



The Rev. H. H. HIGGINS, M.A., V.P., in the Chair. 



Charles Botterill, Esq., was elected an Ordinary 

 Member. 



A paper was read "On the Preservation of Fresh 

 Meats, &c., in Metallic Cases," by Christopher Bell, 

 Esq. 



The author entered into the details of the various pro- 

 cesses in use, the particulars of which he had ascer- 

 tained, and illustrated the same by specimens of home 

 and foreign product. In presence of the members, many 

 cases were opened, some of which had been sealed 

 for ten and fourteen years. Mr. Goldner's stood this 

 severe test, as well as those prepared by the Messrs. 

 McCall and Co., his successors in the business. Not 

 one of the canisters opened was unsound, but the home 

 was better than the foreign. The process of preserva- 

 tion was the coagulation of the albumen and expulsion 

 of oxygen, effected by simple means effectually appHed. 

 The following paper was then read : — 



NOTES ON SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL STATIONS 



FOR BOTANIZING 



IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF LIVERPOOL. 



By The Rev. IT. H. HIGGINS, M.A., Sen. V.P. 



The vicinity of Liverpool has for many years been 

 diligently examined by botanists in search of phanero- 

 gamic plants, and their labours have been reAvarded by 

 the discovery of a series probably as extensive as any 

 collected in Britain within a district of similar extent. 

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