318 Messrs. Wohler and Dean on Tellurmethyle. 
slip-individual is essentially the same as the bud-individual (i. e. 
shoot-individual), we have four degrees of individuality, in which 
at least one more might have been easily inserted, between the 
cell and the shoot-individual, i. e.: the member or “ story’’-indi- 
vidual (Gaudichaud’s phyton). With this view Schleiden’s divi- 
sion is connected: he distinguishes the cell as the plant of the 
first order ; the shoot as that of the second, which he calls the 
simple plant (a term borrowed from C. F*. Wolf, who used it in 
the same sense) ; the whole stock as that of the third order, which 
- he designates as the composite plant By a searching investigation 
into the shoot, I shall endeavor to decide whether all these rela- 
tive individuals can be considered individuals with the same Jus- 
tice ; or whether, after all, one of them does not deserve the title 
preéminently, corresponding to the animal individual. In either 
ease Geethe’s words may be applied with perfect justice to plants 
and their individuality : : 
: Freuet euch des wahren Scheins, 
Euch des ernsten Spieles ; 
Kein Lebendiges ist ins 
Immer ists ein Vieles. 4 
Herder, in speaking of the works of the Creator, says: “ Every 
one of Thy works Thou makest one and perfect, and like itself 
alone.” 
This sentence presents the other aspect of existence, by which 
the multiform is one ; and every unity in the one-sidedness and 
incompleteness of all single manifestations, is after all a perfect 
whole. These words lead us to the internal essence of things, re- 
ferring us at the same time to the primary ideas, which Nature 
comprehends and realizes in Life. 
0 be continued.) 
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Arr. XXXIL—A Research on Tellurmethyle; by F. WOnLER 
and J. Dean. 
(Read before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, by Prof. Horsford.) 
Tr was not difficult to foresee that a compound of tellurium 
would be formed with the radical of methylic alcohol after the 
corresponding ethyle compound had been described. In this little 
research which we propose to offer in the following pages, W® 
only desire the credit of having made the first step, and of hav- 
ing overcome the difficulties which are inseparably connected 
with the investigation of a body possessing such an excessively 
disgusting odor. f Pre 
The preparation of tellurmethyle is conducted in a manne’ 
sxactly similar to that employed for obtaining tellurethyle ; 
iamely, by distilling telluret of potassium with a moderately con- 
Be SFOS@ at, USL 
lexxiy, 69. 
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