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the surprise are often times feelings of regret and chagrin by his com- 
—s that they had not discovered this most obvious path. To such 
s the words of Milton are quite apropos 
“The invention all admired, = ach - we he 
bs be the inventor missed; so easy it seemed, 
ce found, which yet cn: aay most youd have deemed 
impossible’ e 
Such cases are the most embarrassing to your examiners. ‘If meas 
ured by the length and breadth of novelty, little is to be found, while 
yet the measure of utility has in no way been made to appear. But to 
return to the churns. 5 
A modification of the last named churn has been patented, in which A. 
the hole in the dasher at the lower part was large enough to contain a 
sig eg ly fitting loosely within the dasher, which acts the part of a 
) 
the office that the inventions claimed “psiied their pretensions to be 
real improvements. In most of these cases, the results were unfavor- 
able to the inventor ; but in some, patents were ordered to issue. 
one occasion an experiment was performed (humorously characterized 
by a bystander as a “ churn race,”) between a patented and a 
churn, ip which they both came out ee making butter from new milk 
in two minutes and a half. Such a rapid separation of the butter, 
however, is by no means es although this is the general aim of 
these improvements. We have it upon the highest chemical authority, 
oes butter made so rapidly is a likely to be as good as that which is 
ma y- 
2. Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains, consisting of Colored arid 
Pisa selected from Parkinson’s ‘“ Organic Remains of a For 
Worl Hanah Artis’s * eee res Phytology ; 3” with Descriptions by 
G. fanTeLL, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., &c., nate 208 Pp: 4to, with 74 
H. G. Bohn. 
ance of J. Morris, Esq., F.G.S., distinguished in the departm 
Paleontology. The frontispiece to the volume is a beautiful p 
a recent memoir 
