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much toward the introduction of a better 



class of general stock for the whole country. 



INCURVED or INCUKVATE, curved in- 



ICHOROLOGT, the doctrine of the secretive ward*, 

 and lymphatic systems. | INDIAN FIRE, a pyrotechnic mixture of 



ICHTHtDiN, an albuminous substance twenty -four parts of uitre, seven of sulphur, 

 found in the roe of some fishes. I and two of realgar, producing a brilliant 



ICHTHYOLITES, fossil remains of fishes. I white light. 



IcHTHYOPHAGi.tish eaters. Certain savages INDUCTION, ELECTRICAL, that electric 

 who lived wholly on fish were so called by action produced in adjacent bodies by any 

 the ancients. I body under electrical excitement. 



ICTEKUS, the jaundice. ) INDULT, a form of indulgence or dispen- 



IDKIALINE, an inflammable substance sation, or licence to transgress or sin against 

 found in the quicksilver mines of Idria, ordinary law, granted by the Pope. 

 Carniola. ] INDCSIAL LIMESTONE, a freshwater lime- 



IGASURIC ACID, an acid found in combi- stone of Auvergne, composed largely of the 

 nation with strychnia in nax vomica. ' cases or indusiae of the larvse of Phryganea, 



ILICIN, a crystalline neutral substance iucnisted by travertin, 

 found in holly leaves. I INDUVIJE, the withered remains ot leaves 



ILMEXICM, a metallic base said to be not articulated with the stem, 

 identical with columbium or niobium. It is INDUVIATE, covered with induvise. 

 found in the Yttro-ilmenite of the Ilmen INERTES, the order of birds of Temminck 

 Mountains. which includes the Apteryx and Dodo. 



ILVAITE, a silicate of iron and lime found INFORMED STARS, stars not included in 

 in Elba. any of the recognised stellar arrangements 



ILYANTHUS, a genus of sea anemones, called constellations. 



They are non-adherent and large in column INITIAL VELOCITY, the velocity of a 

 comparatively. projectile at the outset, or immediately after 



IMBIBITION, the absorption of a liquid it leaves the muzzle of the gun. 

 into the pores of a solid. A property of INOSIC ACID, an acid found in the juices 

 some importance in organic tissues. ; of the flesh of animals. 



IMPARIPINNATE. odd winged or leaved ; ' INSTANTANEOUS AXES, the series of vary- 

 used to signify in botany that there is an ingandsuccessiveaxeson whichany non-con- 

 odd terminal floret or leaflet, and not an centric body moves in the course of its 

 equal number of pairs. rotation. Motion produces many such axes 



IMPASTATION, binding different matters in bodies, according to the nature of the 

 together by cements in sculpture, so that rotation and its combination with other 

 they can resist the action of fire. motions, as, for example, when a body 



IMPASTO, the body of colour, or thickness slides as well as rotates, instantaneous 

 of the layer, relatively, in painting. A thin sliding axes being thereby produced, 

 layer of pigment is equal to a thin impasto, INSTRUMENTAL ERRORS, errors arising 

 &c. from defect of the mathematical instru- 



INCANDESCENCE, the luminosity exhibited meuts employed in measurements, observa- 

 by any body from interior heat. tions, &c. 



INCENSE WOOD, the aromatic resinous INTERCOSTAL, between the ribs. An ad- 

 \rood of certain species of Idea, as/. Hetero- jective used anatomically of vessels so 

 phylla, I. Guianensis, &c. The juice of situated, 

 some is also used for incense. INTERMEDIATE SHAFT, the connecting 



INCINERATION, burning to ashes, some- shaft of a pair of marine engines, at the ends 

 times resorted to for the purpose of obtaining of which the two paddle-wheels are fixed, 

 the incombustible remains of the substance. INTERNODE, between the knots : the space 

 Cremation is the name applied to the process on a branch between the leaves upon it. 

 when the human body is incinerated for the | INTESTINALIA, a class of animals, in- 

 put-pose of obtaining the ashes of the dead, testinal worms or parasites, which infest the 



IXCRASSATE, bodies more than usually interior of other animals. They are arranged 



thick in proportion to their usual dimeu 

 sums in botany, as in the case of many 

 succulent leaves, 4c. 

 INCUBATION, ARTIFICIAL. 



hatching independently of the hen is of great second, Acanthocephalu, Trematoda, and 

 antiquity, having been early practised by 

 the Egyptians and Chinese. It may be 

 effected either by the oven, stove, or steam. 

 The Eccaleobion, or egg-hatching machine, of 



under two classes, Caelelmintha and Stereo- 

 mintha. Each subdivided into three orders, 

 the first class comprehending A'ematoidea, 

 Acanthotheca, and Syngamoidea, and the 



IODATES, salts of iodic acid. 

 IODIDES, compounds of iodine with the 

 metals. 



the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, by which the IODITE, a native iodide of silver, 

 best and most improved breeds of poultry IOLITE, a violet-tinted crystalline mineral 

 iwenow regularly produced for sale, is doin; found native in grains and masse*. 

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