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the slasa Maten 
owth forming the outsi ide: 
Soci ieties. 
BOTANI ICAL SOCIETY 0 EDINBURGH: 
OF 
wee first meeting for the ‘session. 
Tv 
—Thi 
ne Proiitcht in the 
rantacere, with a large Urania in the 
n the front, a-little farther on, there is a ‘ats Paha 
irele , the tall 6 Ones being in the ha cei ag 0s 
7 T gro 
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Miscellaneous. 
Asimp’e age Senai Hig. S e- free and com- 
Peal Ra onia auo ah 
ig accurat nd a 
ri 
t the 
ime us "o for ewan ark the 
felt by 
amount “of ammouia in guano, has, I th rink, been ; 
marks on the org ‘state and ie ae of the 
Soi During the past, as w well as 
that manure for commercial _ purposes, where t “re 
necessarily 
following ‘method, which I have eto | ag os 
laboratory of Dr, G. Wilson, Edinburgh, where several 
ser 
5 tion, seenis to me to possess thebe advan 
interesting botanical eraren especiali on 
had 
ma 
inini @ umstanced, The gh y of free am- 
a 
Sat 
-haf; 
an xf and cree In 
the nie 
si erty the Society hs hd 
iii 
ee been denak; 
of members etit 
were p fall ied, a epee utiable ‘t 
give toa purely: scientific Society tiit a 
sa were able: z 
a iA 
estow on tA ei Ena] societies ahil 
_ Dur ing st session, they had also felta gréat 
ti air president, 
ca , precluded his bem es atiy pole 
ings. The e Chairman felt it to be unn 
t, Dr. Graham, whose lor ng 
painful ‘illness had, for many months a ot to his 
Tube with copper salt: 
They alt ‘hotOnly kriew'him to be 
| a 
ne and Suteessful tea eliet of Apel but ¢ 
ig ght 
J 
+ 
she of all who a the asi’ of I iaa him. It v 
AIT Sla gratification ‘to find in Dr. Graliam’s Successor the 
tl 
e wou ld „Tiit erially support and adv: 
eines o po 7R arb- 
Pipes History,” and ‘in sae Soci ie 
= Mr. J Jame: ies, ENA ee bited a 
hy any ab pie! so fi’ ‘nln nd as 4 un havo 
med 
ce was wad trialin alisa city, with the view of e 
beme eniployedi in the thanufacture of ha ts. ime 
A 
: Hailstone, Esq, F:L:S,, 
. | was ect anon- -resitlent fellow. The fóllowi ng 
tip. nuks 6 wére Yea =1. ntributions to the 
Ay oe og: . Dicki 
i pt 
“| e- | by A. Dewar, Esq, ¥ 
ut | lowing jiane ons Were ann rarest as ‘having b 
© | received since last niéeting, viz, ;—Examination of the 
a, ews adgpied by Liebig on the “ 
by Dr. W ‘Sëller, from tiie zutiror:; 
ito Ws the author ; “ froin Re c. 
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as lection ‘made-by the- 
fy | Malta, aud ‘Bisbon. 
New Plants. 
oe Èva ‘AtreENvATA. ‘Attentiated- lavet 
denoviacere. 
-hardy Shrub.) 
A 
Talf- 
cI made a glorio ous Mons yai +As momar 4 plant, a native ‘of 
det and déstribéed by M 
Austral 
veHToos nearly the, | passee it ‘fittte’ voaty i in ts ‘mode of is oe Hae An 
e 
and July bearing rather 
bright, but Tight, blue apne which: ‘our reat ite vel 
ions ge ‘Our pla iit Was ‘reared fro 
in pre 6. “gpd under my direc- 
es, 
tag 
place fa before the 3 seis ce of chemists wh 
g 6 
< OS 
q along with that óf the wate er, by the fol- 
or 
Wing pru A common test-tube, 
åbout 5 inches Tati and } wide), is taken, 
and in ita determinate qu of the 
convenient. To the e her 
joined, by m rk, a tube of the 
same eer but ouly about 4 inches 
lung, havin of its čids. con tra cted 
and drawn-out, 
re the mpi ced 
‘the ‘tube, to 'prëveéiit ‘the ape 
ea up during fhe Progress; zand the 
then ‘filled h fragute of 
caustic > potash, © either ore me = mined 
wh ay n pre 
fo the t top of this tu be is the ii Joined 
another tube ‘of E ng similar con- 
struction, but bei ing ouly about 3 inche 5 
ix 
s fille à 
sulphate, nitrate, or edoide of Lepper 
previously well dried. A few fr: apicoats 
of asbestos are placed I f 
p 
h of th tul to‘prevent any 
f their conterits falling, “ok The tubes 
are then weighed separa rately. The three 
tubes are then map te an è test- 
fà beer contains tlre guano “is ‘placed 
r-bath u fit : 
ol led t 
útil all moisture has 
phe ‘os The re now dis 
ounect! Lagdin ed, when the 
quantity of aimtonia ‘contained in ‘th 
guano ina free state is directly deter- 
mined by’the increase óf weight which it 
uid ‘tliat the tute 
Tr salt las - 
water i Z of 
weight in the tube edritdining the potash 
sea lime. = nig oe ned combined am- 
momia hasn tained, whi ich 
4 veontaive ‘in upper tube, 
set bef fure, itis détermived by dir rect 
j he 
steadily ie is vey easy to.ju udge wiieh all t 
Had 
d, as the a nimionia, ih combining with the coy 
per 
it proceeds tip the ‘tube, a magnificent 
>| Salt, gives it, xs 
a | blue Ciut: dbiék, when it does not extend any Pa 
es d the tube, indiedtes the conclusion = the = 
Tn the ease of ay ther manure, where ‘the sind 
has to be fou ud, the <= re riot is rechealy sinia te the 
h E ba 1 have no 
e here: take: De 
v 
og 
sF 
= 
wo plist and a dey Sees ae at 
vicki 
te"nide of ‘patter’ 
Ho fo a ‘flower Buils are € 
the ‘hairs on ‘the inside 
ie | in compliment to 
The. age aa lier, who 
= of upright (iot climbing) shrubs, with os 
— ae allied to Pass ciffora; fi 
bby M 
phon intive, 
-Rower ‘is both 
Tiris shrub 
f ofi M 
wiih gh alst di 
agrarna sia jie 
re 
iay e ‘the nat ery Sree 
viet sil, and thie 
and - 
‘of po pons 
with of 
x are are Tt is mire ‘th good en Bt {t of _ Copper would px d road = tise in 
‘house: plait, fully & as trogen : 
pee gtr ic aes the- ster, dad odl and in one dr two eases where I hive rane it, tb the: re- 
saw} préenhe Tt my be inerénsed R 
h and Sis tanisa M Magazine, aay peN Forbes, Esq, in-the Chemical Gazette, 
NNA Gat Smoolirstalked eure weer is 
The county around is very een, “(sine aoe — Effect of Exposing T to Hot Suihice—Tt 
mentioned that-honey-combs melt when 
icpesctito ahotsean; butasthat eatin sel 
be he “he “white ‘to ar ome thre tiftas- 
, S. rir i trae pe bse Bi — 
sania tial aea nea eve expose to 
| the’s a sur. = Far e oe padi ter he bees to Work 
Hara í 
e top of ‘tie ‘hive ; te enue Beng 
a the hive in crenied so that the eembs 
idaro be> je Hive; 
cha) aa T 
vhi fe ‘the ~~ of thdse ae ue nut enfer, cate the 
ied the aa to be ‘be obsér shan _ agg os did not 
:strophe u pinne jer the 
ke. one Sr iai rirani e any eine ra it, 
| in which niany of the poor bees were dreneled in their 
treasure 5 
while outside > hive was sg" te cove = 
‘eseaping ‘from th e wreck. a litt 
Tremoved the h 
ies, 
feli on the Bode, erushi of the oe 
itga ‘aby o Hav 
eared the floor, abd ‘also vak Vroken combs from ‘the 
| haveyalter the the honey had drained a little, the hive was 
ced in its Genet sation, fenced from E sun bya 
Meloth, ‘The bets Soow took possession again, excepting 
