1 56 Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



It cannot but be agreeable to this meeting to know that our 

 award is duly appreciated by I\I. Plana himself, and regarded by him 

 in the light which it is ever most desirable it should be, — as a 

 stimulus to fresh researches and further exertions of his powerful 

 talents in the same line where they have already reaped so rich a 

 han-est. No sooner had the Council decided on their award, than, 

 as in private regard no less than in public duty bound, I communi- 

 cated to him the result ; and his reply, which breathes the warmest 

 spirit of attachment to the Astronomical Society, and of undimi- 

 nished zeal in his own peculiar line of research, is now before me. 

 In the absence of any personal friend to receive it for him, I shall 

 now, therefore, present our medal to Mr. Rothman (in the absence 

 of our Foreign Secretary, Captain Smyth), in his name, and request 

 him to forward it to him, with our best wishes for his health and 

 hap2)iness. 



XXXI. hitelligencc and Miscellaneous Articles. 



ANALYSIS OF CHYLE AND LYMPH. BY G. O. EEES, M.D., F.G.S., 



ETC.* 



THE following analyses of chyle and lymph have lately been made 

 by Dr. Rees, with the view of ascertaining what those ingredi- 

 ents of chyle are which disappear from the lymph, and which are 

 consequently of most service for the nourishment of the body. The 

 fluids were both obtained from the same animal immediately after 

 death. The subject of experiment was a young ass, which was killed 

 by a blow on the head about seven hours after taking a full meal of 

 oats and beans. The chyle was taken fi-om the lacteal vessels before 

 entering the thoracic duct, and was therefore free from lymph ; the 

 lymph was from the absorbents of the lower extremity. Analysis 

 yielded the following results : — Chvle. Lymph. 



Water 90-237 96-536 



Albuminous matter 3-516 1-200 



Fibrinous matter 0-370 0-120 



Alcoholic extractive 0-332 0-240 



Aqueous extractive 1-233 1'3]9 



Fatty matter 3-601 a trace only. 



["alkaline, chloride, sulphate "1 

 Salts< and carbonate, traces of > 0-711 0-585 



(^phosphate, oxide of iron. . J ■ 



100000 100000 



On these analyses Dr. Rees makes the following observations : — 

 The albuminous matter, as obtained from the chyle, contained a 

 substance in admixture which gave it a dead white colour, and which 

 Dr, Rees is inclined to believe is identical with a substance existing 

 in the saliva. It may be obtained from both the chyle and saliva 

 by agitating them with aether, when the peculiar principle appears 

 floating above the inferior stratum of fluid. Iron was found in con- 

 siderable quantity in the aqueous extractive of chyle ; and Dr. Rees 



* Abstract from the Med.Gaz- for Jan. 1st, 1S41. 



