56 Intelligence.— Fossiis. 
applied the stomachic or gastric juice taken out of the 
stomach to alimentary substances of all kinds, he wit- 
nessed, when it was aided by a sufficient heat, effects nearly 
similar to those which it would have produced in the sto- 
mach itself. He even went the length of ascribing to the 
gastric juice, when thus isolated, the property of arresting 
the progress of putrefaction. 
He drew this conclusion; (since adopted, tacitly at least, 
by most physiologists), viz. that the gastric juice exercises 
its digestive and antiseptic action by its own peculiar nature, 
and in virtue of its composition and affinities. 
[To be continued. } 
XV. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 
FOSSILS, 
Fossits of an extraordinary nature have recently been 
found in the neighbourhood of Brentford. The soil as far 
as it has been dug presents five distinct strata. The upper- 
most is a gravelly loam; then sand and gravel; a cal- 
careous loam ; sand; and the fifth, blue clay. : The upper- 
most contains no fossil remains: the next three contain 
Jarge tusks like those of the African and Indian elephants, 
and the hippopotamus; horns and jaws of oxen; horns of 
deer; pearl shells, and the shells of fresh-water fish ; but 
no sea animals. The clay contains the fossil remains of 
sea animals only ; as echini, shells, &c. 
LIST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 
To Thomas Mead, of Scot Street, in the parish of Scul- 
coates, in the county of York, engineer, for his endless 
- chain of a peculiar constguction, with appendages, which 
with the assistance of other mechanical apparatus is apphi- 
eable to a variety of useful purposes. —28th April 1813.— 
Four months to mroil spectfication. 
To Samuel Whitfield, of Birmingham, in the county of 
Warwick, brazier, for his improved mountings or furniture 
\ for culinary and other utensils.—2sth April? months. 
To Samuel Evans, of Brynrywen, in the county of Den- 
bigh, farmer, for his certain improvements in the working 
or giving motion to mill work, and machinery applicable 
to raising or drawing water from mines, and other useful 
purposes.—1Ist May.—6 months. 
To Thomas Walker, of the city of Norwich, machine- 
maker, for bis various improvements in the construction of 
a horte 
