Merino Sheep.— 'Packing Trees. J 55 



found yery advantageous ; but as it requires more time to 

 load a gun in this way, they can only be employed in fixed 

 batteries. 



Count Runiford has communicated some curious experi- 

 ments relative to the general action oF affini'lies, and which 

 prove that two liquids may continue a long time superposed 

 without being completely mixed, although predisposed by 

 nature. A saturated solution of sea salt was covered with 

 distilled water : a drop of oil of rosemary heavier than fresh, 

 and lighter than salt water, kept between both, and served as 

 an index for the progress of the Aiixture, ascending about 

 two or three lines pt:7- diem. 



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XXII. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



MERINO SHEEP. 



xXcL persons who possess ewes of pure Merino race, and 

 are desirous of increasing their stock, are requested to apply 

 to Sir Joseph Banks, who has received the king's commands 

 to distribute a considerable flock, newly imported from 

 Spain, among such persons as are most likely to preserve 

 them free from all admixture, and to improve their form by 

 judiciously matching them in breeding ; giving a due prele • 

 lence to those who have manifested their approl ationof this 

 kind of stock, by having already provided themselves with 

 the breed, but who have not yet obtamed a sufficient in- 

 crease to be able to supply the wants of their neighbours 

 who wish to improve their British wools by th^ use of this 

 valuable cross. 



Letters addressed to Sir Joseph Banks, Soho-Square, 

 London, will be duly attended to. He requests to be cor- 

 rectly informed of the actual number of pure Merino ewes, 

 ewe tegs, and ewe lambs, each applicant is now in posses^ 

 sion of, and of the source from whence the breed was oU-* 

 ginally procured. 



Sir Joseph Banks will be thankful to gentlemen who will 

 inform him what was the average weight of the pure Me- 

 rino fleeces of the clips of 1808 and isoy, and what price 

 per pound ihty were sold f«r, with the name of the pur- 

 chaser. 



Mr. Wm. Curtis, of the Botanic Garden, Brompton, has 

 lately been rewarded by the Society of Arts, 5cc. Sec, for 

 his valuable applicatvon of the Long While Moss of the 

 Marshes (the Sphagnum palitatrc ijiLiunxus) to the pack- 



