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ecounts in your pages o of this glass, but if my memory 
sl te to the world, as he in 
e deceased fr nten ded, | 0 
a m iret on ‘the growin) 
peran me rightly, ee 
materials of which i different from 
those of sop sheet pea is Tiinan a and that it was 
ralculated produ uce a slight shade ; what then if we 
Aotiees of of He) 
make both kinds from the same material and the 
ou will, 
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or perhaps more 
We mig with equal reason do the same thing w - 
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also oheerve that this glass was suppl 
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ouse, which is very 
d it in h any nursery catalogue, which 
e | lead as brilliant views or scie ntific 
The author's new work is of a higher, hdlaghh Pe 
LE. [Ocroper 25, 1856. 
| sets and the power of abso 
ot more important kind, for nothing can be 
iain then to learn accurately, however slightly, 
the rudiments of a science. The great merit of these 
consists in their good arrangement, exact 
ll must 
ear explanations, and sagacious sepa- épi 
the less effectual method of the 
eto indiehtions of the assistance which geology is a 
pained to confer on agriculture—an assistanee very 
o be e OV errated, however, unless the farmer at the 
e, which can so oa be very well 
dispensed re course of this — oe nde ed 
a and vegetable physiologist. As with 
farmer so with the land- valuator ; 
the 
an nd though a 
sheds iet light t which 
illuminates without it dazzling or r distort ing, 
indeed ms i 
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I regret, as it ie is one of the mos 
epe i pexpaitent specimen 
ia R d with flowers and buds, 
rdenia 
whi-h is highly erridmetal: The | leadin 
also bearing fnit. 
plant's 8 feet high ri is robust health. This plant is 
e 
oar mr an exposition of his 
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t | the pean 
land-v; 
t his eyes open to points of sa at facilites for 
market, and so forth, may often 
sate osely to the real value of an "a ‘dope 
nother possessed of the same 
Panase and — in the “geologien bearings of the 
district to boot, safer guide, 
k 
the 
f the one should 
mineral 
wn pe er t 
ay outline nl the tol as now ag Tea: by the 
ng work in Britain, France, Germany, and 
America, he. main object has been to render the 
POE E T h + 
be accompanied 
the aoe et the other ; but even in 
ne aphia uing o the 
by 
of bean for 
om seen in collections. $ fs) observe that very 
pa fags improvemen w going on which wil 
iss 
these se gardens among the. first | in the kingdom 
the field as a practical observer, and to read with 
papers, and new discover o Such 
on the one-boiler or Weeks’s s system, ‘has been erected, 
alwa, 
which heats 10. s000 feet of „Piping, ang gives t — satis- | 
dded in case 
An extra f accident, 
Ammonia.— “A New Sabarin referring to 
this subject in the Sean ticle of the |Ë 
s appare a to akeg ount for the| 
eo ciN ol ts obuined in my a Br thy) we | 
to the property charcoal to absorb a 
ammonia. TA ur Pave been ane alt ty in 
implied solution had the = n between ras 
plants b s ing in 
alone, and the other in sand an 
have been singe pr that case with some reason that 
the plant gr in sand oar rom 
Se tel 
ore chia equal to the heat 
Re 
appreciation the higher ope: special peta 
d = ould 
1 
=: so forth 
Formation of Flings “The henni: of fint within a 
Iations, Staaten, and ondiko of the Earth— 
Are ~~ a or chiefly concerned in 
he Modifie: of its Crust—C sition and Charac- 
eristics of oe. Principal Rocke and Rock- Mia 
Classification into stems, Groups ries— 
Sys o 
General Characteristics of Fossile — Tho Silurian, pa e- 
iferous, Pe: assic, 
Ge t occurs in 
nodu. oe masses of very remem ea ri fantasti) forms 
and variable magnitude— —some of these not exceeding 
an} inch, ers more than a“ yard in cir ania l 
irs 
is | Vonian, Car! bon: ermian, Tri Oolitic, Cre- | each other, each being ~~ enveloped by the 
tacecus, Terti ost-Tertiary Sys ms—General | chalk. It i is rare, indeed, find a continuous layer of 
Review of the Stratified Systems—Theoreti educ- | flint, though the 
tio ic Aspects of the Science, and Methods nodular or concretionary states of these two materials. 
of capital Gt Procedure. The whole concluding with are pr ecisely similar. paces the ght com- 
a tal Glossary of Technical Geological T t ; internally, they are of 
š General ag grey or black silex, frequent Mig of crt or eracks, 
bed | _ From this enumeration the reader will see how com- | and often eo with chaleedony and 
plete a aei p is worked up. The manner | crystallised quar MWh a pot ton ‘te chalk pit, 
of working it is excellen! ; there is „neither too much they are brittle and full of BB yer but soon dry 
even if hs could, i 
Em real merits of t question 
e largest extent er eirebal 
ns pienie the only question at all 
ains unanswered. In what wa; 
experiment ; 
or element which it supplied 
t ag tades vega ap or bydro-carbona- 
ceous matter aw or nitrogen? J. H. H. 
imperial. This may possibly bea veneers 
plant for p pot an Bisse to decorate our greenhouses with 
spring, but 1 have not heard of its succee ding in beds, | © 
I two plants of it in spring, and intended to 
of i its paeten features. 
details being wisely referred to im the special treatises 
or the most eminent writers om the one What the 
respec he 
d and refractory qualities. 
Flints almost without scorpion enclose remains of 
sponges, sea-urchii ins, detached s nes, corals, and other 
ews zed p» e aut thor are with ct to t 
Mri 
di the most delicate and beautiful manner. 
Ts 
culture and Geology; will be g 
the following Pinia nt. 
“Tr 
ae 
ass istance which 
a Ps science of a pases, fonga, somewhat over- 
at one time, is certainly am ong t the most obvious 
et hollow or pommel filled with some sparry incrusta- 
classes „in gredien ts—or aera rr epar the 
Fro m these facts it would seem that flints are 
some organie nucleus, just 
the coal-shales, the 
like the eng ‘Septaria o 
of 
ironstone nodules of the s gault—all o “ 
animal matter, the latt 
eae or of the merlini pre masses, a a 
n proporti ic il can 
fertile, hence the continuous application of animal and 
I Tanini 
Ain e gree 
e due admixture of i inorganic 
bl 3, but it is oe true that without 
a ss of plant, a a shell, a tooth, , coprolite, or other 
organism. This w the 
and when it is yatiionabienii that the organi sms must 
have been deposit ted when the chalk was in a flocculent 
Th 
All the mineral el ts essential to et may not 
exist in the soil oia a spatula cen See the moment 
that c hemical a s has i in indica’ 
ceiv- 
ow the silex, held in solution by t ters of 
deposit would, by chemical afinity, attach i itself to the 
decay ying organism. The solubility of silica is a well- 
defi ciency, 
este impredieht hae 
y be 
2 0 it from the subsoil of his 
own a ds, d th 
—in soils, whence it is elaborated by many growing 
calices made their ap re enter- 
tained of beholding beautifal Aabla white 
flowers, ted like a Carta ; gags my expectations 
Med om for i ecalices, which were 
fully formed, some were found quite pis — others 
bad only are of flowers in them. the season 
passed, and I have not been re oa ith a single 
p ena araon rA 
lants for their struci eture—in waters, whence 
p shells and spicula 
o do this, however, he e requires 
not Lge: as che position of rocks oe ail 
ber estes aa nerd rihagtted they occupy ; in other 
the e wad er 
prear map ae his own distric 
wn w the 
iarities of the pee formations. 
e | the streams, rivers, 
tai 
reenstones, and tufas, are Aeara su lying it to 
al i th Bsns `; ‘sre its abun- 
dance in certain eretaceous areas we may never know, 
but it is altogether a mistake tp suppose that "Aint is 2 
product peculiar to the chalk. The spongiferous rous cherts 
of the Portland and coralline oolites, and p be 
e ever 
keep a +; N, 
dener to the Right Hon. Tord. y omy Teddesley Park,| 
| of 
n Sellis Would some of your readers favour me with 
fail 9 
I am anxi Sanio — 
to my dwelling “house ; is it bett: tter to put a 
| otbempegiiary ‘empston. 
0 e Callison, La Lancashire, on the 14th inst., 
65 years, Mr. Alexander Morton, who for 30 years 
served as eae Ge — Walker, re 
dey as 
Ep by such halpa ia 
rara e sci ence to be able 
dentical in- pamar 2 
in èrigin, as they are all but i 
i flint fint nodules may be 
mse aes repented lines o para 
traced in the carbonifer 
<a 
d peaa pera as A pals silicious 8$- 
23, L ait a. f Kent and > 
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as Soe 
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Surrey. 
high he may turn to the best seeouti; 
n the perma nent improvement of the so 
Let us add that a there are no ad ca; rm 
this w ork, „the ere excellent Woodcuts, w 
t of "ulin. 
ms necessary to 
creased fertility ; such as facilities for a en 
capability of retaining moisture, the innocui 
~ cer 
in- | (Letts and Oo) This is a pamphlet 
proper E 
reich on Rewersionary monet ‘om pany 
Noi Union by Mr Le appe, 
seit who as an auditor of the pany com 
the directors garble papers, withhold inf ‘formation, and 
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