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lour of the blooij ; in what it consists ; what are the con- 

 stituent principles of the blood of the child, an abstraction 

 being mfide of the acid. parts, which should be mixed with 

 it by its contact with the atmosp-here." 



The memoirs on the above subject must be transmitted 

 to the society by the beginning of September 1S08. 



LXI. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



METEORIC STONE IN RUSSIA. 



Un the 13th of March last, in tlie afternoon, the inhabitants 

 of the canton of Juchnow, in the government of Smolensk, 

 were alarmed by an uncommon loud clap of thunder. At 

 the moment of this explosion two peasants belonging to the 

 village of Peremeschajew, in the canton of V/erreja, being 

 out in the fields, perceived at the distance of 40 paces, a 

 black stone of considerable niagnitude falling to the earth, 

 which it penetrated to a considerable depth beneath the snow. 

 It was dug up, and found to be of an oblong square figure, 

 of a black colour, resembling cast iron. Its surface was 

 very smooth, shaped like a coffin on one side, and it weighed 

 about iCO pounds. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



A traveller who lately arrived at Baltimore, in America, 

 has brought from the banks of the Missouri an enormous 

 tooth of a mammoth. He relates, that beir.g occupied, 

 along with others, in searching for mints in the neighbour- 

 hood of the river, they found the extent of a quarter of a 

 mile square, filled, to the depth of six feet, with hones of an 

 enormous size. The above traveller oBors to produce, upon 

 paynunit of a certain sum, a complete skeleton of a uunn- 

 nioth, which is 5 t feet long and '22 in height. The middle 

 toe of the fore foot of this skeUion is 7 feet 5 inches long. 

 Each jaw has eight enormous grituler?. The tooth brought 

 by the traveller was presented by him to the Dahiaiore mu- 

 seum. What he has related as to llic enormous (pumtity ot 

 A a 3 bones 



