Dr MacCuiloch on preserving Fish by Sugar. 43 



sary to wipe and ventilate it occasionally, to prevent mouldi- 

 ness. 



A table spoonful of brown sugar is sufficient in this manner, 

 for a salmon of five or six pounds weight; and if salt is desired, 

 a tea spoonful or more may be added. Saltpetre may be used in- 

 stead, in the same proportion, if it is desired to make the kipper 

 hard. 



Trusting that I have taught you how to improve a Highland 

 breakfast, I am, &c. J. MAcCuLLOCH. 



EDINBURGH, July 



ART. XI. Account of the Memoires de la Societe de Phy- 

 sique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve. 



JL HIS is the first part of a volume of natural and physical 

 science, published by a society of " Savants" of Geneva. The 

 society itself was constituted so far back as the year 1790, and 

 many of the communications made to it, have, from time to 

 time, been given to the public in different scientific journals, or 

 in the particular works of their respective authors. By the 

 present publication, it aspires to a more permanent character, 

 and seems destined to take no mean station among the various 

 philosophical societies and scientific institutions of Europe. 

 Among its members we recognise many names already highly 

 distinguished in the scientific world, and others which, though 

 at present less known, will, we have no doubt, sustain the high 

 reputation which their predecessors have acquired. Having al- 

 ready exhibited to our readers a list of the memoirs which form 

 this portion of the first volume of the society's labours *, we 

 shall proceed to notice a/few of the principal papers. 



In his " Memoir on the Fall of Leaves," M. Vaucher objects 

 to the hypothesis that attributes the fall of the old leaf to the 

 growth of the new bud ; to that also which ascribes it to an al- 

 leged superabundance of juice in the plant, and defective tran- 

 spiration ; or to the inequality of growth between the circum- 

 ference of the stem and the petiole of the leaf. The true cause, 



* See this Volum.^ p. 193. 



