104 Correspondence of J. Nicklés. 
The production of aluminium is encouraged by the French goy 
ment, who wish to procure a large quantity of this metal in orde 
use it for cuirasses and other purposes, for which it is especially fitt 
by its tenacity and lightness. The chemical establishment at Javel 
near Paris, has engaged to furnish a certain number of kilograms of alu- 
minium per week. ih 
Pisciculture—The Piscicole Institution at Huningue (Haut-Rhin) dis 
tributed last year (1854) several thousands of fertile eggs of salmon, — 
trout, &c. large part of them were sent to the establishments — 
conta i 
Ramsbottom, under their direction, has established 
Yon the borders of the river Tay, and M. Ayrton, as 
the Dee. 
e h government continues to sustain the establishment a 
Huningue. hey make it also a school, where those who wish to le 
the methods of manipulation may enter as pupils. 
2 of M. J. Nicklés, dated May 2, 1855. 
Necrology. ntific world has of late suffered greatly by 
the loss of eminent men—Mathematic in the person of M. Gauss, | 
and Natural Science by the death of Duy: oy, De la Beche and 
Greenough. of pet 
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years. He was Free Academician of the Academy of Sciences at 
succeeding to the place of Sir Jos. Banks. 
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