394 New Scientific Books. [Nov. 



From their appearance, it is possible that they may be human 

 bones, but they are not sufficiently characteristic to enable him 

 to determine that point. They were examined likewise by Pro- 

 fessors Ives and Knight, of the Medical Institution of Yale 

 College. They all admitted that they might be human bones ; 

 but they did not consider the specimens as sufficiently distinct 

 to form the basis of a certain conclusion. This is understood 

 also to be the opinion of Prof. Mitchell, of New York. — (Ameri- 

 can Journal of Science and the Arts, ii. 146.) 



VIII. Explanation of the Word Calomel. 



(To Dr. Thomson.) 

 SIR, Glasgow, Oct. 6, 1820. 



In your number of the Annals of Philosophy for the present 

 month, you propose some queries relative to the origin of the 

 word calomela, or calomel. Is this word not evidently the old 

 Arabic name of the substance, and composed of the words 



JaiiLo (multazi) burning, and jl^ (kalaj) rust? So thatSpielman, 



in the year 1766, seems to have adopted the Arabic name for 

 the substance instead of the Latin name, which in time has 

 become Frenchified, and modernized into calomel. 



Yours, Abubeker-al-Rhasi. 



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