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they cover a space 20 leagues square and are so crowded that clearing 
them out is a great labor. 
- General Vaillant, who commands one we the military divisions in 
French Algeria, states that the pulp proceeding from the extraction of 
the alcohol from agphodel may be used as food for hogs, who eat it 
without hesitation and with advanta In the month of May, June, 
‘aly, and August, the proportion of the fermentable principle reaches 
en 12 p.c., nearly - maximum of that of cane sugar, and almost 
double that of beet su: 
» M. Damas also calls anion to another plant more abundant still in 
) Algeria, the Scilla maritima, whose large and dry bulbs are so oe 
in the soil that no space is left. betw ween. According to M. Fée, 
fessor of Botany in the Faculty of Medicine of Strasburg, the Scilla 
affords more than 30 p. c. of saccharine matter. It is however i impor- 
tant to remark that it contains also a bitter principle which may injure 
the alcohol. 
them to Paris. They present the facts respecting the land and sea 
forces in all their aspects hea eR witb astonishing precision, 
e of the most surprising operations in irs A is the repro- 
inte of flowers, leaves and branches. ing rn 
f Academy of Sciences, amateurs have been agreeably. ena with 
' the exhibition of an album containing more than one hundred pho- 
— proofs of flowers, remarkable for the harmony and perfec- 
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tion oe studies, for artists who employ flowers as a means o 
| Tation for painting cloth or paper, a os pes for which the Haut- 
| Rhin is em shed. He also engages to group branches and flowers 
ij a@ manner t o produce effects highly semaine in an artistic — 
of view, Unfortunately M. Braun has not made 
| we have heard accomplished photographers say that the peabdaese 
| acthalty: known are altogether insufficient for attaining the results which 
/ claims. 
| Photographie proofs of another kind have been exhibited at the same 
{ Academie session by MM. Bisson brothers, Parisian photographers, for 
8 long time well known. They are views of the Louvre, of a size 
Nee exceeds all that has been hitherto seen. They had before exhib- 
some fine views ; but they were far inferior to these, which are 80 
Sadonctees (30 inches) high and 60 broad, and as perfect at _ 
border as at the centre. The negatives on collodion were taken wit 
objectives having an aperture of 5 inches, “— “7 meters focal distance, 
= from the shop of Lerebours and Secrétan. he plate was esceraer 
oe sear Biographiques. 
s de Franc ie Avago, tome ii, ise: Wotiees ographique 
< Paris. C Cher G Gide et aetlidl —_-This new volume contains the Eulogies 
4 of Ampére, Condorcet, Bailly, Monge, and Poisson, which were read “a 
| times at the sessions of the Institute of France, and are almos 
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