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tanning leather, and that they appear to be applicable for 

 that purpose. 



I am, dear Sir, &c. 

 Warsaw, May, 1826. Kitaiewski. 



The engravings with which we have illustrated Professor 

 Kitaiewski's interesting communication, are from sketches 

 taken by us in 1813. Other sketches from the same resi- 

 dences and other places in Poland, will be found in our 

 Encyclopaedias. — Cond. 



Art. IV. On a Disease which has attacked certain Elm Trees 

 in Camberwell Grove, Surrey. By a Constant Reader. 



Sir, 



My attention was excited some few months since by an 

 advertisement which appeared in several London and provincial 

 journals headed " Diseased Elm Trees," and requesting persons 

 having trees visited with a disease similar to that briefly described 

 in the advertisement, to communicate with the advertiser, as it 

 appeared that a suit in Chancery was depending thereon. 

 Feeling considerable interest in whatever concerns forest tim- 

 ber and vegetable physiology, and wondering how such a 

 matter could have got before the Court cf Chancery, I took 

 some pains to ascertain the nature of the disease to which 

 the attention of the public was thus attracted ; and as the sub- 

 ject is of importance, and the circumstances not altogether un- 

 interesting, I avail myself of the opportunity afforded by your 

 excellent Magazine of laying before your readers the result 

 of my enquiry; the publication of it may possibly save some of 

 them a suit in Chancery. For much of the detail I ought to 

 say that I am indebted to the gentleman who inserted the 

 advertisement, but of the facts I have satisfied myself. 



It appears, that in July, 1 825, some newly established Gas 

 Company at Bankside began to lay down mains and erect 

 posts, in the usual way, at Camberwell, in Surrey, preparatory 

 to the lighting the village with gas ; and that on the 23d of 

 August following, the whole village was, for the first time, illu- 

 mined with that elegant and unequalled light. Amongst the 

 reads thus lighted was Camberwell Grove ; a place well known 

 to Cockneys as the reputed spot where George Barnwell is 

 said to have murdered his uncle ; and to a higher class of per- 

 sons as the hospitable residence, for many years, of the cele- 



