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I should also observe, that mistakes concerning the relative intox- 
icating powers of mixtures of alcohol and water and of wines, may 
have arisen from the different modes in which they are ordinarily 
drank. A half pint glass of brandy and water of common strength 
contains an amount of alcohol but little less than the same measure 
of ordinary Madeira. And if these portions of wine and of brandy 
and water should be drank in the same manner, the effects on the 
animal economy would not be so different as is generally supposed. 
Wine is usually taken in small quantities and at intervals ;—circum- 
stances which must have a great effect in modifying its action on the 
system: and to these may also be added the fact that its habitual use 
impairs the susceptibility of the system to its intoxicating power. 
On the whole then there is reason to conclude that the difference 
in the intoxicating power of wine and that of the ordinary mixtures 
of water with the same proportion of alcohol, if it exists at all, is 
owing more to the intimate combination of the alcohol with the water 
in the former, than to any peculiar effect of the other vegetable mat- 
ters contained in it. But, from the considerations above stated, I 
am inclined to believe, that, after all, the difference is rather appar- 
ent, than real. 
Art. VI.— Notice of the Meetings of the British Association for 
the advancement of Science, in 1833, at Cambridge, and in 1834, 
at Edinburgh ; in two parts. 
Parr I.—WNotes extracted from a Tour in England, during the 
months of June and July, 1833; by Mr. Queteier, of Brus- 
sels. Translated for this Journal, by a pupil of Prof. Jos. Henry, 
of the College of Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, and com- 
municated by that gentleman. 
General meeting of the English Philosophers at Cambridge.— 
The British Association for the advancement of Science, was in- 
stituted at York, and the first meeting took place in 1831. The one 
which succeeded this, was held at Oxford, and in its results far sur- 
passed all the expectations of the founders of the institution. The 
third meeting, just held at Cambridge, has been perhaps even more 
celebrated, and will certainly form an epoch in the annals of science 
