184 Scientific Intelligence. — Statistics. 



3. Revue Encydopedique. — At the monthly supper given in com- 

 memoration of the establishment of this journal, the company which 

 assembled on the second Tuesday of November, were the represen- 

 tatives of seventeen nations, five of which were Americans, one 

 Asiatic, and eleven Europeans. 



Prior to the repast, Aldini of Bologna executed in presence of 

 a select company of eighty persons, his fine experiment for preserv- 

 ing the body from the action of flame. — A young Swedish savant. 

 Professor Ritzius, pupil and friend of Berzelius, seized and held 

 for some minutes in his hand, covered with a thick glove of amian- 

 thus, a bar of red hot iron, and a fireman furnished with a double 

 mask of the same substance, covered with a double cap of metallic 

 gauze, braved with impunity, torrents of flame and smoke from a 

 vast chafing dish. — The generous philanthropist Eynard of Geneva, 

 gave an interesting detail of the actual situation of Greece, and the 

 advantages which civilization and commerce will derive from the po- 

 litical reorganization of that nation. — The distinguished French en- 

 gineer Brunel of de Rouen, now of London, who is equally an 

 honor to his native and adopted country, explained the plan of his 

 tunnel under the Thames, and stated his hopes that this bold enter- 

 prize would soon be resumed with renewed activity, and brought 

 eventually to a successful termination. — Admiral Sir Sidney Smith 

 deeply interested the company in an account of experiments which 

 he had made in several ports of France and Holland, with a life boat 

 of his invention, in cases of shipwreck. — Roccafuerti, minister 

 plenipotentiary of Mexico at London, and Salazar and Torres 



