C 3°5 3 



XIII. Defcription of the Apparatus contrived by f Mr. Cap alio 

 for containing Gas of any Kind, and transferring it to Bottles t 

 Bladders., 5sV. 



jT I G. 6, Plate X, (hews a feftion of the veflel A, which 

 may be of glafs or tin ; B, a funnel, into which is faftened a 

 bent glafs tube C j D, is a tube foldered to the funnel, and 

 which with it paffes through the cork a ; E, reprefents a 

 tube of tin, wood, or other materials, to one end of which a 

 bladder or oiled filk bag is faftened •, the other is inferted in 

 the tube D. 



The veflel A being filled with the required gas *, when- 

 ever it may be neceflary to transfer any quantity to a bottle, 

 bladder, &c. an equal quantity of water is to be poured 

 through the funnel B, which will difplace the gas, and force 

 it through D into E. 



The bent part of the tube C, by always containing fome 

 water, prevents the gas from efcaping through the funnel j 

 but when the apparatus is to be fet by, both the funnel, and 

 the tube D, muft be clofe flopped with corks. 



XIV. Curfory View of fome of the late Difcoveries in Science, 



[Continued from the laft Number, p. 212. | 



SENSIBILITY OF PLANTS. 



X H E caufe of this fenfibility is ftill little known. The 

 following is the explanation given of it by Lamark * : 

 " In my opinion, there exift in the articulations of many 



• This is done by taking out the cork with the funnel, &c. filling the 

 veflel with water, and inverting it with its opening under water. Thus, if 

 a tube leading from the apparatus whence the gas is produced, be brought 

 under the mouth of the veflel, the gas will afcend and difplace the water 

 rill it be full. 



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