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the space of four months. His excellency, the minister of the inte- 

 rior, has had the kindness to transmit me, by his letter of December 

 31, 1827, a copy of these valuable documents, which I shall consign 

 to the pages of my next publication. 



4. By immersion in chlorated water anatomical pieces can be 

 preserved for a long time in very hot cUmates. 



RemarJc. 



It may, perhaps, appear surprising that I attribute so many prop- 

 erties to the chloride ; but they have all been substantiated by facts, 

 and it is on the authority of these facts that I publish these instruc- 

 tions, for the sole purpose of preventing the evils, that might result 

 from an unskilful use of it. I hope soon to lay before the public a 

 number of other uses, not less important than those I have already 

 published, and thus to justify the honorable suffrage of the Society 

 for the Encouragement of National Industry, which, at its general 

 sitting of October 30, 1822, decreed me a prize, which was followed 

 by a resolve of the counsellor of state, prefect of police, under date 

 of October 19, 1823, directing the establishment of my process of 

 disinfection at la Morgue,* and with the police agents of the metrop- 

 olis. 



I hope likewise to justify the no less honorable testimony of the 

 Royal Institute of France, which awarded me a prize of three thou- 

 sand francs at its public sitting of June 20, 1825. Adopting the in- 

 structions of this illustrious body, the minister of the interior, by his 

 circular to all the prefects, dated October 17, 1825, was pleased to 

 direct the use of the chlorides as disinfecting agents, and as means of 

 cleansing the lazarettos, prisons and other unhealthy places. The 

 counsellor of state, director general of the public works at Paris, has 

 likewise ordered the use of the same disinfecting agents in the nume- 

 rous establishments subject to his direction. The authentic results, 

 when obtained, will be presented to the public. 



2. Seleniuret of palladium, <^c. — We are requested by Dr. Lewis 

 Feuchtwanger to state, that the mineral described by him as the se- 

 leniuret of lead, consists principally of palladium, and is now called 

 in Europe seleniuret of palladium, silver and lead. 



* The place in Paris where the bodies of suicides and others found dead, are de- 

 posited for inspection, that they may be claimed by their friends. 



