Acclimation of the Angora goat. 405 
The forms of  saeereobie apparate are numerous and interesting, 
though constru on known principles. The more important are 
those of at Bréguet, Garnier, in France, Berg and Soerrenden, 
force of the w inds ;* a heat — fort hot- boas and drying cham- 
bers; anda send of electric communication between railroad trains. 
M. Henley of London, has on exhibition a magneto-electric machine 
e 
Bekking of Holland, have induction apeareieecs for medical uses. 
There is nothing especially remarkable in 
he exposition contains also models of ie submarine cables which 
have been used in connection with telegraphs, and of those which are 
soon to be laid down between Italy and Algiers. 
In another communication, I propose to allude to other machines and 
nomical Society of St. Petersburg, and established with that Society a 
system of exchanges of objects industrially useful. 
This Russian Society has in view an end gh ince proposed for 
M. Guéri ‘aw 
the series of transformations they undergo in the processes of the arts. 
man, will find ee illustrates his own departments, and be able 
make c cone important to direct them in the various operations of 
the arts and tra 
The St. Peutnan Society has already made such a collection of 
the productions of Russia, and their transformations. It includes all 
kinds of wheat, from the grain to the flour, bran, and starch, &c., as 
well as models of machines employe in ener &c., from the 
plough to the wind-mill and the implements aking. So there is 
wool of various rshigei and the raw material, be all the tissues coarse 
and fine, &c.; and s cg a multitude of objects, pertaining to the 
three kingdoms o 
The Zoological Society of Acclimation, not wenine. 4 to ee — 
to the productions of France alone, esolved to e the objec 
it may obtain by exchange for a “ Mu séum d° Histoire "Naturelle Fit 
quée et comparée,” to contain sh products of all countries so as to 
exhibit the differences — 
Acclimation of the Angora pe eis Society is trying to decide 
whether the Angora goat can be acclimated. At their request, they 
* This Journal, September, 1853. 
