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MEDALUC BIOGRAPHY. 



A subscription is opened for striking a hundred medals in 

 bronze, silver, and gold, in honour of those men, in all coun- 

 ;tries, who have acquired the greatest real glory by the distin- 

 guished services they have rendered to society and to the world 

 at huc;e. H. M. the king of Sweden has subscribed nearly 

 5j00U/. towards the completion of this undertaking. 



Mil K. 



Professor Schubler has published in the Dictionary of Medical 

 Sciences, a paper entitled " Researches on Milk and its consti- 

 tuent Principles." The results of his analysis differ greatly from 

 those lately published by Bcrzelius ; and hence, in the author's 

 opinion, ])rove the great influence of food and climate on the 

 "lacteal secretion. 1000 parts of new milk contain 110 of 

 -fresh cheese, rtO of fresh serai, 24 of butter, 77 of coarse sugar 

 of milk, and 739 water; or, in a dry state, 42-6 cheese, 7"87 

 serai, 24-0 butter, 77*0 sugar of milk, and S4S-53 water. 1000 

 parts of skimmed milk contain 43-61 dry cheese, 8-06 dry seraif 

 7S-94 sugar of milk, and S69-34 water. 1000 parts of cream 

 contain 240 butter, 33 cheese, Q serai, and 721 whey. Lastly, 

 721 parts of whey contain GO coarse sugar of milk. These ob- 

 servations were made at Hofwyl, which is some distance from 

 the mountnins, and where the cows are kept constantly in the 

 stable, so that the milk must be nearly the same as in other flat 

 cormtries. 



RED SNOW OF BAFFIN's BAY. 



The nal\ire of this substance was explained in Mr. Bauer's 

 paper read before the Royal Society on the 1 Ith of May, as no- 

 ticed in a former number. In the winter he ])Ut some of the red 

 globules forming this substance into a phial with compressed 

 snow, and placed the phial in the open air. A thaw having 

 melted the snow, he poured off -the water and added fresii snow. 

 In two days the mass of fungi was found raised in little heaps, 

 which gradually rose higher, filling the cells of the ice. Another 

 thaw came on, and the fungi fell to the bottom, but of about 

 twice their original bulk. They appeared capaljle of vegetating 

 in water, but in this case the g!ol)ules produced were not red, 

 but green. The author found that excessive cold killed the 

 original fnngi ; but their seeds still retained vitality, and if im- 

 mersed in snow jirodnced new fungi, generally of a red colour. — 

 Snow, then, seems to be the prn|)er soil of these fungi. 



LIVERPOOL MUSEUM. 



A public museum of natural history has been attached to the 

 Royal Liverpool Institution, and opened to proprietors and stran- 

 gers. The opulence of that town, and the extensive intercourse it is 



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