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a sponge in a glass funnel) into a confectioner’s show-glass. I put in 
of animals, as I wished the water to be first somewhat impregnated 
with the scattered spores of the Ulva; and | thought that if any subtle 
elements were thrown off from growing vegetable s, the water should 
have the advantage of it, before the entrance of animal life. This too 
is the order of nature ; plants first; then animals 
A coating of the green spores was soon deposited on the sides of the 
glass, and bubbles of oxygen were copiously thrown off every day un- 
er the excitement of the sun’s ie After a week therefore I ven- 
ured to put in animals as follows 


2 Actinia mesembryanthemum. Coryne ramosa. 
7 Serpula triquetra Crisia eburnea. 
3 Balanus balanoides, — aculeata. 
2 Sabella Cellepora pumicosa. 
. me mad ab cotta 2) Cellularia ciliata. 
2 Spio vu Bowerbankia imbricata. 
1 egaihis (4 quadrangular 2) Pedicellina vo ag te 
est health and vigor; the plants Siaeaicii| one or two Red Weeds that 
clinia ae es anguicoma and A. clavata, a Trochus 
umbilicatus, and a Littorina a s wére at different times added 
\x weeks have now elapse nee the introduction of the. animals. 
T have just carefully searched over the jar, as well as I could do it with- 
on disturbing the contents. I find e id one of the species and y ie 
ciliata, and Pedicellina "Belptea hese I cannot find, and ai therefore 
- Observations, economical and sanatory, on the employment of 
Chemical gg am, base Peace. a E AN 
» (Proc. Roy. I of Gr. Britain, 1853, 31 19.)—There are two 
ct sources of peer el light, viz., electricity and the chemical 
force ; the latt tter, however, has been, and still is, the only practical 
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from animal and mineral bodies is primarily derived from the vegeta- 
ble kingdom ; every plant being an apparatus for the absorption and 
