APPENDIX. 
I HAVE already stated as my opinion, that no method will 
ever be devised by which man can be preserved, so as to be 
fit for placing in a museum. I still adhere to that opinion, al- 
though a highly important discovery has recently been made 
by two celebrated chemists of Chaillot in France, the Monsrs. 
Capron and Boniface, by which they can preserve the human 
figure in a manner superior to any mode hitherto practised. 
By a process which these chemists keep secret, and to which 
they have given the name of “ Momification,” they have suc- 
ceeded, after passing a number of years in experiments, in so 
modifying and perfecting the known process of preserving bo- 
dies, as to reduce them to mummies, leaving all the forms un- 
altered. All the elements of disorganization which show 
themselves in the human body so soon after death, are com- 
pletely destroyed, and not only the external body, but all the 
viscera, the lungs, the heart, the liver, and even the brain, are 
perfectly preserved. The operation requires but a very few 
days, after which the dead bodies may be preserved in a room 
ora vault, or interred in the ordinary way, without being ac- 
cessible to worms. They may also be exposed to all the vari- 
ations of the air, either in a standing or sitting position, with- 
out undergoing any alteration. The inventers do not intend 
to make their process public, but it may be adopted even by 
those who reside at a considerable distance from Paris, as a body 
placed in a leaden coffin or bathing tub, and completely sur- 
rounded by ice, may be kept uninjured for twenty days, and 
the operation may still be performed. At a late meeting of 
the Academie des Sciences, a human body and also two hearts 
preserved in this manner, were exhibited, and the process ap- 
peared perfect. The discoloured state of the skin, occasioned 
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