304 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
In the preparation of beet-root sugar bisulphite of lime is quite as 
useful as in the extraction of cane-sugar; the way in which it is to be 
employed in the former is fully explained in the second article publish- 
ed in the 507th number of the Courier de [ Europe, to which we must 
refer those among our readers who desire any further information on 
- Somerset House, the Earl of Rosse, President, in the chair. An able 
review of the progress of astronomical and physical science was de- 
livered by the President, the obituaries of deceased fellows read, and 
and the other as a Paleontologist: both Sir G. Murchison and Dr. Man- 
tell were also elected into the new council of the Royal Society. 
6. Ray Society, (Athen., No. 1142.)—The Sixth Anniversary of the 
in 1847. 
- Mastodon angustidens.—A nearly perfect specimen of this mas- 
todon has been found about six leagues from Turin, in a bed of plastic 
clay containing fresh water shells and covered with sand. The skele- 
ton is preserved in the Royal Museum at Turin and is one of the most 
perfect hitherto found in Europe. 
). Development of Electricity by Muscular Contraction.—The ex- 
periments of Du Bois Reymond have been repeated by Prof. Buff of 
‘ with apparent success. In one trial, sixteen persons held each 
