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ness exactly passed. The appearances were every way extraordinary, 
unexpected, and most singular. At the moment when the total obscu- 
ration commenced, a brilliant crown of glory encircled the moon, like 
the aureola, which Catholic painters append to their saints. Suddenly, 
from the border of the black and laboring moon, thus singularly en- 
shrined, burst forth at three distinct points, within the aureola, purple 
or lilac flames, visible to every eye. At this moment, from the whole 
assembled population of the town, a simultaneous and deafening shout 
broke forth. A similar manifestation of popular feeling occurred at 
Milan, occasioned by the self-same astonishing spectacle, accompanied 
in the latter instance with a general Huzzah! vivent les astronomes ! — 
The eclipse was also viewed from the Superga, near Turin, by our As- 
tronomer Royal, Mr. Ont: dais under less favorable circum- 
stances.— London Atheneu vei 
10. Vegetable and Animal Fibrine, Albumen, and Caseine.—MM. 
Scherer and Jones, operating in the laboratory of M. Liebig at Giessen, 
have found that vegetables contain three azotized bodies, which they 
have called vegetable fibrine, vegetable albumen, and vegetable caseine. 
These substances possess precisely the same elementary | composition. 
Vegetable. fibrine is the matter which does not dissolve when gluten is 
treated with alcohol—that portion soluble in this liquid they have 
named vegetable gluten. Vegetable albumen is found in the juice of 
vegetables, and caseine is extracted from peas, beans, or lentils—when 
these are treated with water, the portion dissolved is caseine. On com- : 
paring the properties of these three bodies with those of the corres- Z ‘ 
ponding bodies of animal origin, that is to say, albumen, fibrine, and # 
caseine, it is found that the vegetable substances possess all the prop- 
erties which belong to those of animal origin, and analysis shows 3 
they. are isomeric. These unexpected results throw great light on 
physiological phenomena ; they explain the reciprocal transformations 
which. fibrine, caseine, and albumen undergo i in the ania) sespintl 
tion ; they also lead to this very remarkable 
that herbivorous animals find in in vegetables, gubstannes. which are anal-— 
ogous to their blood asap pea The ipcagemiqaeers 
of eit different —— we 
