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Steel bars, formed of old files welded together, were 
pierced more quickly than iron, and presented the same 
phenomena. Z 
Cast iron. heated nearly to the me't'ng point, underwent no 
alteration, by the application o! -ulphurto its surface. The 
sulphur did not even leave a mark. I took a piece of this 
cast iron and fashioned it into a crucible, and put into it 
some sulphur and iron. On heating the crucible the 
iro’ and sulphur were quick.y melted, but the erucible 
underwent no change.—An. de Chimie, Jan. 1824. 
4. * The naturalists <utde, in collecting and preserving 
the various objects of natural history.”— ecimo vol- 
ume under this title, price 5s. 6d. sterling, has been pub- 
vlished by Wm. Swaimon of Liverpool. A work of this 
nature by a person so well quaiised to give the needful in- 
struction must be valuable toamateu's. An edition of it, 
we should imagine, would be saleable in this country. 
the progress of national Industry. 
6. WurtemBerc. Organization of the University.—For a 
long time past, in Germany, the students have formed as- 
Sociations, either public or private, against which the gov- 
ernment has found it necessary to take precautionary 
measures. In vain has it forbidden those which are known 
under the names of Landmanschafften; Burschenschafften, 
Ke, ; they have been ostensibly dissolved, but only to re- 
vive under other denominations unknown to the authority. 
