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7 sil with 
pi ened ip at the top, and enough fuel 
through an op 
oy ie _ be shot in at once to last for many hours without 
fuel, insuring 
Š i Bee nine b ‘below Mall pass Bj the 
shall b 
Oats 
to be tempered. 
With respect to the whole subjec 
Jv 
ee Le Cor r of equivalent sur- we surface within narrow space at mo oderate cost, | curious loss, the Glypl D i, and x 
jams and the oo boile a auch ip oie ity has been exercis joo but was tl í pert rip rata 
_ penis very Fer form of boiler which adds to some of the | variety there is not novelty of principle and the a ey which eal pene w mith death, p which has 
‘Another fo: Cornish others pec o | tage in ores a nfiuenced the progress of botanical science 
iol, eS the upright cylindrical or conical | plexity. Almost a ae of them may be in th 
golf is that nt be described as a short Co: h boiler set | as to effect the pu , but not with the ati pees At the ame of the last century the Admiralty yri 
wer. J t ng fire placed near the bottom of the in ill in the attendants The esti mate of w vork done induced to fit out an expedition ; for desi survey and e 
aand, witha h specimens in cast iron have been by particular forms will be th rig wn was 
iabe- a t Fibition by Messrs. Hood and others. i mae satisfactorily these four things se oe selected by Sir Joseph Banks to soci its com- 
to it:—1, The quai of fuel consumed i mander, Com. Matthew Flinders, R.N., as Naturalist in 
TA fire is surrounded by the water. a time; 2 ‘ditto of air e sala th h the Solin $ H.M.S. Investigator. Mr. B was accompanied by 
BA d t| ditto of water he a er tain number of degrees; | Ferdinand Bauer as Jonom draughtsman, and by 
3 2 The surfac usly near to the fire, and the opie 4, the temperature o; moke s: the see PE as gardener; and the ex n further in- 
sig heat by contact of the burned air is of c ventilating change of air to ee as landscape pis ar the late eminent artist 
Se asta a greenhouse, the fresh’ air should si one to enter l, and among oon my wa tg Sir John 
sienble exte fuel in the easiest conceivable | where it must come into contact with heated surfaces | Frankl, pens whom d ost inti- 
Mr. Bro 
e frie ndship. The Investigator s sailed i in 1801 ; rae 
4 
ect of the mana 
ent of temperature and eee not on 2 con- | 
sabvaitatios and hot-hou = also 
re S, de abt 
one can errors Field 
oe 
me AR 
pons or stove be 
"iio 
` eS uniform current of air 
instruction in regard to 
heat and air. 
ROBERT BROWN, FOREIGN 
OF THE INSTITUTE OF an 
I 
N our last week’s Number it was our eas ost 
uty to announce the decease 2 one who thr rongan 
of aN esired 
BE some remarkable qualities or results are addi- 
|, as 
1 The fuel burns as regularly and eee as oil 
ina lamp or f candles. 
wi It may ‘be charged so as to burn for two d 
Bay op burning to the end, troublin: 
SG mor than a kitchen clock which h 
be wound up. 
3 The fire may be qhe surrounded by waten as 
described, o: 
ays | mor 
vithont attendance, and if lighted in the beginning o Ea 
beth m 
has been 
ecognised as the first of living botanists ; ‘one, 
no hat m: 
ntinue to be committed until on common courses of vies 
o; 
DR. D.C.L.,, FR 
MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY oF SCIENCES J 
NC ackso: 
arrived in the oo 2 ya at t King. George’s Pre 4 
n the south-west ustralia. During the 
thik edie devoted to tothe eag v of that ri go Mr. 
collected no fewer than 
pentaria, to the Pel ew and Wellesley 
ae 
reover, who has proved himself to be second t 
ne his 
history o of botany is paontacgs wal 
but we should Be > wanting, both in 
r the ce b yin bagi 
e inthe 1 an 
Pe vat ths MORTE of Rober our 
uty rege i 5 the 
du to we. mopio lected to 
hotter 
boilers ished 
piai several forms of 
oe 
‘bat the principle rkm 
the execution ie Se nat not being at first ly 
an account | ofa 
p REE Y our 
to "Weasels Islands, long. 136° E. Here tbe soba 
state of the SS at ine reel see s health of 
her commander, an appearan 
the crew, rendere io necessary to 
where they obtained provisions. 
along the west and south kios 
their crew by d: ysontery, a ‘ea among them Pi 
Good the e garde 
ner, after v 
man Pi: whose 5 tale i and pain we ever enter- 
to his s name is no less familiar from its ag nt 
understood by persons | quite unaccustomed to 
s 
w. ur. ` hav ked as | 
P a ai in Ae great S. Ti st ie Hee 
whom 
by Mr. Brown 
At Port Jackson the Investigator was condemned as 
rr for further service, and Capt. Flinders sailed for 
well, 
man 
d na the vseentie men of every count: 
ry, i ay 
strange e should think it necessar, ry to 
ist 
i | dapavertes w 
inv 
1 ht 4 
rved 
beer | ee 
iti happens | 
ength of Ee aga that hap ipei s since his great Port J 
which need, p | sch 
| 
f his le a the ‘comparatively =i thea 
On her 
proc y way of Timor and the 
ina nie leaky condition of his tite erat ben: ue 
3 any man 
n, and I had leisure on to ublish the, ia 
could not check the evil. have be z 
Y 
k: = 
J 
ft 7 
proofs in my own house 24 amon 
it so 
ongst | 
are quite unaware of the =e gee 
raphe t the desired obj 
55 
q oF 
pitoi eg ally bes a and of the v 
i boiler of which I have to speak, and whicl 
ce has several points of resemblance te 
ee, is that called the upright or conical 
boiler, Of this there are many specimens in the 
hog sizes, from, Messrs. Weeks, 
ha) 
Shag rtant ad ti f b fi d 
lon the Pg a vantage o being e 
e had upon ae own he 
suits. ‘Nor r are they p Bases in their wa 
tion; the gener ral ignorance of a educa 
RN revs: 
a ai babes L TOR doh rpe athe 
men of the Pot the T who 
si 
at h 
scientific academies t 
whatever, not even excepting Humboldt ; ; and that an 
is 
„the scientific i 
nds | where 
of Europe, ve a carriage at his disposal: whereas 
| him to put into Port are his v 
ously solidt by the Fren aie eG oe hye ecaen, who 
beter ‘in eiat Partly in prison and partly on 
1803 t med e 1810. 
ons, residing ai 
on the piti in Mey 
Risdon: 
including the efit of the foundation of the town of 
einai uence of the on of Capt. Flinders a 
the" “time fixed by him eae a eunt o ae the 
too opportunity 
1 
et th Oeeahe 
%0 fall a a charge at one time as t 
a we into 
4 
ř 
as to ae was Robert Brown; er that on the occasion 
ey 
tio 
ra m veh e not with the bb sort 
these, h the smoke must depart 
temperature p 
It might 
baba fa be expected that the 
ual heati: 
from the radiation falling E ohielly on pag 
n and for a air r contact, gig the | of the 
a lau; 
t a | taunts 
9 
me was greeted with 
ugh ® band a jeer Fatt the ET alumni. ens 
e current on the c con ntin ent, and wh 
stri ney ‘teu or not, are 
som exten’ t merited; the time has however A 
r | obtained ba 
On M: i erion urn he was directed by the 
Board of ‘Admiralty to f publish the botanical results of 
the voyage; of these one portion appeared in the 
human knowledge, and time will eventually show that 
me has really done more to 1 raise it Bd a dignified 
gh owing 
odromus Flore Nove Hollandia, and another 
re expansion and l 
Pi to be made of the tubes to their no o 
So increase the liability to leakage, | p 
and they are ` willing 0 repair any. 
t which we shall hereafter ate his per- 
ect was duri ing his lifetim 
pen, at their own cost. ` Some of these | 
ee one ee to Reg the trouble of 
Tam prepared to say with what 
as TESpe: 
pith felt by a Dei a | 
nean Societ; of Loniki 
ed nat Tele, that Society a series of most 
anical ich 
origin nal boi 
pie we 
f 
whi 
o artical h 
ony at the Pata University, 
is 
allude. 
ool, or tax, he was a raped 
Aberdeen. 
he afterwards studied medi- | 
where his gy of 
may be more than 
ybe commenced 
with which the heat- | 
tany Was ful 
Professor at that t period. 
Havi east his diploma, he was appointed surgeon 
f | in 
Dr. Rutherford, the 
is easily diffused in the air of 
DY nacie flat open vessels of water on 
many boilers—or ra essela for | D 
means of aR ed era in pa 
tempting all to bring extens 
eciment of Scotch Fencibles stationed gs cal 
E of ‘Traian, vaeni he pursued hi 
h great ardour, rmed a frien 
equally ent thustastic botanist, the late Cap ia fe 
'hael, sa serving in the same country 
Dagali Carmi : n becam ; e kno’ shel ag r Joseph 
| At this peri 
Banks, we believe hiodh the Discon ot 
as accepted. hos 
his death to occupy that portion 
i Sanare re vhi looked into Dean Street, 
y him 
i fice expiry 
of the lease, soon after which 
Burlington House, where apartments were 
