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acids, and perceived that at the end of 3 days each was much altered ; that in 

 the nitrous acid was much softened, and on separating the acid from it, he found 

 it to be exactly the same with that which he had before got from the water ; 

 that in the muriatic acid was not in that time so much altered; the vitriolic acid 

 had turned the other black. 



From these experiments it appears, that it is not at all necessary that the 

 putrefactive fermentation should take place ; on the contrary, that it takes away 

 a great deal of the flesh which might serve for the formation of a greater quan- 

 tity of this waxy substance. 



XJll. AbslracL of a Register of the Barometer, Thermometer, and Rain, at 

 Lyndon, in Rutland, 1793. By Thos. Barker, Esq. p. 174. 



JT/F". Observations on some Egi/ptian Mummies opened in London. By John 

 Frederick Blumenbach, M. D., F. R. S. Addressed to Sir Joseph Banks, 

 Bart., P. R. S. p. 177. 



Among the many instances of kindness I have experienced, says Dr. B.j 

 during my late abode in London, of which tlie recollection can never be obli- 



