276 Scientific Intelligence. 
Gaseta,’ or Russian Commercial Journal, published by the Ministry of 
Finance, in February, 1847, there had beet remitted to the mint at St. 
Petersburg 1397°378 poods of gold, the produce of the imperial and 
private mines in the Ural and Siberia during the year 1846. There 
was still — $25:368 poods of gold, the produce of these mines 
in that yea 
The Gola produce eevee = Russian gold in 1846 was 1722-746 
bs. 
poods, or. about 62,792 | irdupois, whilst in the previous year 
(1845) it was only 1371 ‘800 pods or 49, “eh Ibs. Pde i The 
annual increase, which had fallen in the last two years to 7 and 30 
poods, has ee risen to 351 poods; or 12,670 Ibe. naceranie 
which much surpasses any previous increase’; “the largest fowterlps or 
that pees rice and 1843, being only 6 ale poods. 
Ill. Zoouoey. 
1. Pancreatic secretion, (L’Institut, No. 748, May 3, 1848.) )—M. 
t 
of fatty substances. . It is a limpid athe viscous and alkaline, having 
the physical properties nearly of the saliva. The follo = are the 
principal experiments bearing on this subject-which he has made. 
1. On mixing the pancreatic juice’ with oil ~ a glass tube, the oil 
is immediately and completely emulsionated ; and the same takes place 
with hog’s lard, butter.or suet, at a temperature of 35° or 40° C. 
2. No other fluid of the animal economy. possesses this property of 
al fatty substances. bile , saliva, 
serum of the > blood, gastric juice, tiave afforded me no such results. 
8. The action of tlie pancreatic juice oh ‘fats is not a saponification 
sumed l cotibasien It is-at-first an emulsion and a subdivision 
of the fatty matter operating under the influence of an organic sub- 
peculiar to the pancreatic juice, Sometimes this substance 
which ied is tesiroyed and een by heat, produces other modifige- 
he — the eel nee aor rg tai ated by the pashli 
juice, an energetic acid reaction is rapidly developed ‘and the odor of 
butyric and sebacic acids, which becomes tre ies decided if butter or suet 
are used. With MM. Barreswill and Marguerite we have examined th 
products of this nature, and nati found that the fatty bodies are chang- 
ed to a fatty acid and glyceri 
. Bile removes spots of eats long exposed, ‘while the pa nereatic 
juice does not; because the former dissolves the fatty. ids. 
not, as the latter, the fat itself. ee: 
mixture of the bile and ~ eg juice, as in the ioe 
