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some of the turns, they were daubed over in a few places with 

 two different substances, the one consisting of wax and resin, 

 the other of resin alone, both applied warm ; so that, while the 

 first served to give phancy to some of the linen employed, the 

 second caused the slack and loose edges of the bandages to 

 adhere together, by which process the whole was rendered 

 compact and firm, without producing hardness. 



" The lumps of myrrh, resin, and bituminous earth, noticed in 

 the abdomen, were pushed up through the enlarged aperture of 

 the anus, immediately before the application of the bandages, 

 for the purposes already detailed." E. W. B. 



{To be continued.) 



Article XII. 



Proceedings of Philosophical Societies. 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 



Jan. 26 {continued). — A paper was read, On the Barometer : 

 by J. F. Daniell, Esq. FRS. 



The author, referring to some former papers which he had 

 presented to the Society, supplies the deficiency, which he therein 

 regretted, of evidence of the gradual deterioration of barometers, 

 from registers which had been continued for a sufficient length 

 of time, with the same instruments, to establish the fact. From 

 the Transactions of the Meteorological Society of the Palatinate, 

 he has now extracted the mean annual heights of the mercurial 

 column at eight different stations in Europe, for twelve succes- 

 sive years, and dividing them into periods of six years each, he 

 has shown that the averages of the last six are invariably lower 

 than those of the first six. He has also made another remark, 

 ivhich, he observes, might have been anticipated from theory, 

 that the amount of the depression depends, in some measure, 

 upon the elasticity of the medium in which the instrument is 

 placed. The five series of observations, whose mean pressure is 

 29*235 inches, exhibit an average depression of "059 inch in 

 twelve years ; while the three series, whose mean pressure is 

 25'977 mches, present a depression of only -026 inch in the 

 same interval. 



From the same Transactions an extract is also made of some 

 observations of Hemmer, strongly corroborative of the opinion, 

 that the air gains access to the vacuum by means of the glass 

 and not of the mercury. 



Mr. Daniell proceeds to state, that the results of the experi- 

 ments which he has instituted with the platinum guard are satis- 

 factory, as far as there has been time for their developement. In 



