300 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
more so afterwards, The rate was unchanged, but the pulse fell, onan 
average, 1-7 per min. Amylene similarly administered and t o the same 
degree, increased the quantity during inhalation 60 cub. ins. per min, 
but shetstheds decreased it to 100 cub. ins. per min, less than during the 
inhalation, The rate of respiration was unchanged: the pulse fell 6 per 
min. at the end of the observation. 
Digitalis ct a a Zi) varied the quantity, increasing it at first and 
then decreasing it. The rate of inspiration was unaffected, whilst rte of 
pulsation somewhat increas 
se paper is accom wore tables of “pamcig statements, and by 
s exhibiting the aang in a series of cur 
uorescence.—Prof. J. W. Mallet states in a letter to one of the 
editors of this Journal (dated —— Ala., Jan. 29) that an old solu- 
tion o ny of orange-flowers (Oleum Neroli) in alcohol—one part of the 
former to twelve or fifteen of the latter—fluoresces strongly with a beau- 
tiful pale purplish light. The solution was made some six or seven years 
did not exhibit this phenomenon at first. . 
4, mA System of Instruction in the Practicul Use of the Blowpipe, being 
a > os gest course of analysis for the use of Students and all those en- 
in the examination of, metallic combinations, 268 pp. 12mo. 
foe. York, 1858. H. Bailliere-—The use of the blowpipe has been so 
thoroughly perfected by Berzelius and Plattner that now-a-days it 1s 
hardly possible . produce an original treatise on this subject. Those 
who have hit undertaken to prepare blowpipe manuals, have wisely 
a the pane observations of these masters, and have roduced 
na more or less altered form and arrangement, to suit the couven- 
ience of students. The book before us is neenmicngm to be chiefly 4 
copy, but it is — and unfortunately ori 
The work is due, as appears from the satielaen advertisement, to Prof 
J. Milton Sanders oO Cincinnati, Ohio, though a modest 8 . appended to the 
is all of the name the present volume contains. ‘We had occasion 
recently to criticise a publication issued over the same name; and we 
could wish that now we had only to commend. But w wit: - uld not be 
just to English or good science if we were so to tre 
leper incorrect use of plain English, w tik: ‘nett idioms 
strangely intruded on the language of the Iboratory and also owner 
stood. He says, “If insoluble substances are fused with others for 
purpose of causing a combination which is solnbled in water and acid, 
operation is anclosing” (aufschliessen ?), Again, “If we detent 
{as it is tersued by the German chemists) the > suiphide of nee 
the sulphide of arsenic with nitrate of potash, we get the nitrate of ant 
Mony or nitrate of arsenic.” We are not aware that either our ow? “ 
the Latin language is indebted to the Germans tor the word vary 
Thea 
moreover we do not see any propriety in its use in that place. from 
may have meant to say deflagrate, though this would not be a term ‘ 
the German chemists. The science of the: passage is its most ih 
feature ; for we have here announced for the first time in the wie 
chemistry, the existence of a basic oxyd of arsenic and tls nitrate—a i 
even mentioned in the 4th American edition of Gregory's : 
edited by Prof. Sanders himself! 
