Scientific Intelligence, — Mechanical Philosophy. 171 



4. About fifteen days. — Face slightly swelled, red spots ; green- 

 ish tint of the middle of the sternum ; epidermis of the hands and 

 feet totally white and beginning to fold. 



6. About one month. — Face red, brownish, eyelids and lips green ; 

 breast reddish brown, and greenish in front, epidermis of the hands 

 and feet white, loosened and folded as if by poultices. 



6. About two months. — Face generally brownish and swelled ; 

 hair rather loose, epidermis of the hands and feet in a great degree 

 detached ; nails still adherent. 



7. Two months and a half. — Epidermis and nails of the hands 

 detached ; epidermis of the feet detached, nails still adherent ; in 

 females, redness of the subcutaneous cellular tissue of the neck, of 

 that which surrounds the trachea and organs in the cavity of the 

 breast ; partial saponification of the cheeks of the chin ; superficies 

 of the breasts, groin, and anterior part of the thighs. 



8. Three months and a half. — Destruction of part of the scalp, 

 eyelids, nose ; partial saponification of the face, superior part of the 

 neck and groins ; corrosion and destruction of the skin on various 

 parts of the body, epidermis of the hands and feet completely re- 

 moved ; nails gone, 



9. Four months and a half. — Almost total saponification of the 

 fat of the face, neck, groins, front of the thighs ; commencement of 

 a calcareous incrustation upon the thighs, and a saponification of the 

 anterior part of the brain 5 most of the skin opaline ', loosening and 

 destruction of almost the whole of the scalp ; scull bare, beginning 

 to be very friable. — Annales d'' Hygiene publique, Oct. 1829. 



MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY. 



1 . Magnetic influence of the Violet Ray. — The power of the vio- 

 let portion of the solar spectrum to convert -a. steel needle into a per- 

 manent magnet seemed to have been well established by Prof. Mor- 

 ichini in 1812, and confirmed by Mrs. Somerville in 1826. But 

 other philosophers having failed to obtain results which they deemed 

 satisfactory, some doubts appear to have prevailed with respect to the 

 certainty of such an influence in the violet ray. Prof. Zantedeschi, 

 of Pavia, in an article communicated to the Bib. Univ. of Geneva, 

 states, that having placed the extremity of a well polished soft iron 

 wire four inches long, and one fourth of a line in diameter, to the 

 violet spectrum, kept in its place in a dark chamber by a Heliostat, 



