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the tongue of adog produces instant death. Three ounces 
of the oxid of arsenic were afterwards given him, and the 
same dose again repeated but without any effect. About 
an hour afterwards he was shot through the head with a 
cannon ball and expired withouta struggle. Notwithstand- 
ing the poison he had taken, three or four hundred individ- 
uals ate of his flesh without inconvenience. His skeleton 
was carefully preserved for the Museum of Natural History, 
and his skin will be used, after due preparation, for covering 
an artificial animal to be placed i in the same inclosure. The 
occurrence at Venice, and that just described, very properly 
suggest doubts of the propriety of suffering these animals to 
be taken about the country without greater precaution. In 
India, where they are domesticated, when one of them is 
seized with a paroxysm he is immediately placed between 
two others, and sometimes a third is put behind him, which 
soon reduce him to order. 
1. Spirits in glass Jars closed with Bladder, mode of im- 
pact wines.—Dr, Summering, in a curious set of experi- 
ments detailed in the Memoirs of the Munich Academy of 
has proved, that if mixtures of spirit of wine and 
water in glass jars, are covered, some with bladder and oth- 
ers with athe that the aqueous ingredient escapes through 
the ry r, and leaves a concentrated spirit ; while on 
contrary, it is the spiritous ingredient which passes through 
the paper, and Jeaves little else than water. It is proposed 
to fine and improve wines by exposing them in vessels cov- 
ered with bladder or some similar substance. In some ex- 
periments made with Cyprus wine, a sixth part escaped, 
and the wine was very much improved in quality. This 
mode of improving wines is practised in some parts of Sua- 
bia.— Edin. Philos. Jour. 
Commmunications tn letters to the Editor, &c. 
62. Memoir on the Vincentin.—M. Brongniart is about 
publishing a memoir on the Vincentin in Italy, the agiited of 
his late travels in that country. This memoir will be ill 
—, figures of the f tregion 
63. Mineral geography of af the environs of P. 
Mess. Cuvier and Brongniart.—As this forms a part of wi 
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