Scientific intelligence. — Botany. 375 



zen was collected in the water. Four of them were alive, the 

 others dead, or nearly so. This brought to my recollection 

 Linnaeus's Tjcnia, found in water. With exception of vast num- 

 bers of Gasteroceus pungitius, scarcely any other animal was ob- 

 served in the water. Many of these fishes were taken, and, in 

 all of them, the belly was much swollen. On opening them, a 

 Bothriocephalus solidus was found, which, when extended, was 

 longer than the fish in which it was contained. Every speci- 

 men of fish we opened contained a worm, and the fishermen as- 

 sured us, that they were rarely met with without them. It is 

 understood that these worms escape, or are forced from the fish 

 into the water, in which they will live for a considerable time. 

 Thus the observation of Linnaeus, that tape-worms, which are 

 true intestinal animals, sometimes occur externally, as in water, 



is confirmed. 



31. Comparative Analysis of the Bones of the different 

 Classes of Animals. By Fernandes de Bariios.— De Barros 

 found, in a thousand parts of bone, the following proportions of 

 carbonate and phosphate of lime : 



Sheeps' Bones, 



Hens' Bones, 



Fishes' Bones, 

 Frogs' Bones, 



Lions'' Bones, 



Carbonate of lime, 

 Phosphate of lime, 

 Carbonate of lime, 

 Phosphate of lime, 

 Carbonate of lime, 

 Phosphate of lime. 

 Carbonate of lime, 

 Phosphate of lime. 

 Carbonate of lime, 

 Phosphate of lime, 



193 

 800 

 10* 

 886 



53 

 919 



24 

 952 



25 

 950 



BOTANY. 



32. Rice Paper.— Kice paper is the pith of the Tong-t-sao 

 {Calamus petrceiis, Loureir), as M. Vallot has demonstrated in 

 the Memoires de VAcademie de Dijon, 1820, p. 187-190, where 

 he has given a full account of this substance. 



33. Method of Preserving Funguses.—Mx Cooke, surgeon, 

 Trinity Square, Tower Hill, having been very successful in his 

 endeavours to preserve anatomical preparations in salt and wa- 

 ter, was re(jucsted to try to preserve, in the same way, a speci- 

 men of Clavaria muscmdes, supposing that it might answer for 



