Aveust 13, 1859.] THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
part of the Course R. J. B. him ridiculous. This condit f excitement — in] carbonic acid durin x thed y and reject it during the 
mom AAS Edinburgh. Certificates of Merit.— | which his face and eyes got —.— re Y . rejec g daring aH 
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per É redder, the mha night. The 
zt . H. Ramsbotham, Leeds; E Colin 8. Valentine, | jective heat of the body considerably increased, and the | and there takes pla 
Richard Lord, Cheshire; 5. David "Xo b of — = motio — 
Montrose 6. James ae ‘Edinb n; John lasted about 90 1 
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Plants — during the ly Exeursions.— | anxiety, accompanied by the sensation as if his blood 
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state to his head; the feeling bela ng "sent out, its carbon being fixed, a v its o xygen 
of Edinburgh. Botanical Ci if his ly was raised aloft, and asif he was about to | only elimin: ated. The we on of vaste thus con- 
List. Prizes — Session 1800. —I. T. Goid fly up, was particularly characteristic. Wi th b 
Medal for the id » roved Herb 
the | sists of nena :—1. An absorption of 9 5 0 
| acid during the day with t the emission of oxygen. 2, An 
rogamous Plants Jit llected within 20,miles pression and tightness in the precordial region. His | oxidation in the petals at the expense of the y^ m 
of TES II. A Prize of Two —— is offered —— and wi eakn mess overcame him to such a degree | of the "yd an m formation of carbonic acid dur 
f his da; s d 
by Dr. W . A. F. Browne for the and app vill, | the uring the night, pud with "the 
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exha ation of “hs acid during the night only, because 
by the connection of tho 9 h species of in order to bring — on, which was — in a all has as | during the day it is deco omposed i in passing through t — 
Salix, Populus, Alnus, Corylus, and Urtion in the he feared a new attack, and wished, if possible, . leaves. Thus respiration — Beste sene in 
district round Edinb: The to be accompanied | reach a place w] e coul of; but in e plants ed Y. grea nalogy than is Mns 
by specimens. III. Æ Prize will be given for the | the course of three minutes, while he was still upposed. The laticifero Bee 2 represent the venous 
and approved Essay on the Spontaneous Movements | the attack set in with increased violence. T , and the Y vessel a a e S rn Lu aa 
which take place in Plants, such as those observed in | with great difficulty he rene the Pharmacologi ioni] system. Hence M. Treen 
sensitive plants of various k inds, in cells, in the repro- | Institute; here he immediately drank two pi col l, reticulated, peri ei dotted 
laeti g cillatoria wi d washed his! neck, and arms with fresh | vessels are N rterial vessels, In the case 
in Diatoms. The author i is expected to to make original | water, on which he became . het better. The | of plants which have laticiferous vess sels and no true 
b ti j Zxperim. — may be con- | improvement, tn only about fi inutes, 
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tunately (as he|the latter; and in 9 plants, having neither lati- 
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Rosaces, illus specim and dissections, | ascertain more — the = of his pulse, 4 for notion that in ner the female E is 
V. A Prize will be pires for the est ap! approved | the — of anxiety came over again, g At leas in the vicinity of Edin urgh, we 
"Et on the vg of the Place; he traced tl int 
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raced the 1. — symptoms o of a g winter. 
ns or models. All t ys to to the violent attack. He was brought into the ee rd the individual then about our um sing — 
* chamber, rm! ol himself partly of his clothes, a nd | fight, till, in the month of March, some stra 
Bani xd on or ores 1st Jy, E and to b ga ith | show themselves, € do not sing, and are Len 
panied by mottoes and as usual. m after his h, for he was firmly convinced that followed — fed b à ad Fixer cond A: at which time 
VI. ^ Prize i is Y fered by Dr, Gauche. D Dumfries, im his Inst MÀ ads — * p de — — 2 | they (the sup ales) utter a low hissing note, 
the best and fate id ape of Fossil Plants from | am dying; —— n be a undergoing d and aah va P wings like 
id-Lothian. n on or before Tst July, 1800) dead-room.” The attack was more * e have n, an 
VII. A Pri: rae wil be give for Large Modelsillustrating | the — —— m ei that — PP s iore ji nba Britannica Ne p Edition. 
he Compositio e Seed, with its coverings and only an egree sciousness, vd Aid to Seience Instruetion.—The following Minute 
contents ; also ( ba) rélation m gustum the Cotyledons and | at the h height ol of the paroxysm vit "tis disa peared. | has been „recently passed by the Committee of Council 
— Radice i in the Em (To be given After the fit, too, consciousness returned but imper i] 
P hima. Fia — ‘birds. 
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or before Ist E. 1860.) VIII. A Book or | fectly; only so much remain eli in his welle chat which dave been passed ir n the Science and Art depar 
Books of. the i of Three Guineas will be given by | the images which rose bae him constantly increased | ment for the ene couragement of scientific instr uction 
Messrs. B. n & Son for the | best and approved in ghastliness until t ye way to the classes of this country who have 
— — varieties of Culti Wheats. | state, and that gto with eps! conscio iiin l — received primary education. I. All former 
of Wheats for dissection may be had from less formidable figures appeared in their stead. Sub- | Minutes relating to Seience Trade Schools, and 
essre. Lawson. IX. A Similar Prize is offered by sequently hes stated tha at it appeared to him a as if he | Scientific class-instruction, eid those referring to 
1 Messrs. P. I ill thence 8 r. ers ee s and t he training of 
Structure and Germination of d D ing Grasses steep precipice, thence to a —— rock, — lastly | Teachers (as hereafte ended by cancelled, 
Festuca pratensis, Triticum repe media, Tod m i: the ridge of a hill, with an immense ab syss before | and the 
italieum, — — "Hone. sterilis Glyceri 
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e following regulations are substituted in their 
a|him. From this time he — no longer control the | place. II. The nd Art D U her 
— Psamma W and | current of —— — ae owing one another with impetuous after assist the indus bial Men of this country in sup- 
r Ce oc- | e, and 4 speaking iinterrupted]y ying th emse truction i Diner agi s of— 
is understood that the e i « m 
placed at the of Messrs. Lawson. — aed gave an — > ensatior r. , 
mens to be 8 while under the influence of — ats 1 ning). tural His X. 
dissections exhibited ay meee ra for which the radar is referred t the grants ina of pny to comis 
specimens of the Grasses to Journal for August, p. 127. and by Tin time a results, 
— pio. with the via "The Latin names Dates is + present in the Spiral, Reticulated, Barred, grants dr span rising wa III. An 
thorities to be given along with the English | and Dotted a hithert either exist? tod 
mne X. A Medal is ohn M‘Nab, M. D., looked upon latex as contained only in laticiferous duly ap proved by the Sci Science a T Deere 
anessan, near Oban, for the best and approved collec- | vessels. Tréeul, on the other hand, maintains that this | may — through its man: mage ioe a certifica 
tion of British i Alge, accompanied with n is found also in spiral, reticulated, barred, and e: or for the cer rester: any teacher, rake 
remarks on their economical y A el vessels. Th hese vessels, according to him, —— or more of the a i 
ies. (To be given in — the end of June, 1860.) n fluid, and di te it tl p IV. Examinations for certifica es of th of 
A Prize will be given to the wii in the Senior — latex assumes different colours ti t | any of the "Move -named Seiences 
Division of the Class who shall acquit himself best at it is white or milky, at other — s yellow orange, | will io held — by the — nt, in the last 
the Monthly Competitive n ae, which are to at other times colourless. 'Trécul has — — week o vemb 25 in the Metropolis: as follows :— 
be conducted in the Class-room by means of ne ogi with — or orange-coloured latex as su bjects of Nos. 1 po 5, South Kensington; No. 3, at the 
q s, anyai any aid | from experiment, oS ome ium, | Royal ' College of Chemist, 3 5 "e RUM 2 
XII. A similar Prize will be given in the Agemone —— and A. grandiflora. coloured the School of Mines , Jer 
lass. XIII. A Prize will be | latex is not fou: —— — th rel nt onoo, nor even ia Grants, in au bes j^ S 
given in the Junior Division of the Class for Dissections | all parts rof certified to teach in any of the Pro Bion or ae 
ng urse, e nature of the Dis- | in this respect. "The ane juice seems to be modified Sciences, will be given as follows :—For the Ist Grade 
to be intimated in May or June 1860.|by the physiolo, ogicalactiou of the vascular tissues. The of Competency, 207.; 2nd, 2 9rd, 107. y 
that the success! ls, eacher 
Essays, Mode certain — a holding a certificate of mpeteney to give 
— uiis specified) from the — vessels, and becomes collected in the primary instruction will — eur the Science and 
be added to the public collection at the Botanic — pa ls. Similar results were observed in epartmen augme 0 
ks wich aky latex, as Ficus Carica, Morus alba, grant which has been attached to such certificate, in 
Effects of the narcotice called Hachisch, ge Eoi Characias, E. ae — P He thinks addition to the grants above mentioned. VI. Such 
3 ^ ; having obtained fi d their |grants will o kp) be made while the teacher is giving 
D a form of this drug called Birmingi ti chool E = nee Class for the i 
“4 : ives the following accoun nt. Of this | by the — vessels. At the same time it appears trial clases, ei» roved by the Department. 
Dr. Hei —who had fully tried 2 | tha ut sta archy matter is aree in the latter IA — Depar will require ‘hal vire premises shall 
in my former experiments on Cann: 9 the other 4 — sels in im- be found ree ainta ained a the a locality 
en several pi tions of this n — re where the School or CI Id; 
|shows — — —— ho fl laticiferous vessels | ten 
are prolonged to the surface of t tieulated v 
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the inolie sod retin, anom amounting to about rat of substances little fitted for immediate 
ud out, eau e 8 on, since they are carb e (eemtehono) oF or ien 
and slight n io smoke a products alkaloids, m 
cigar in the open si» had to be — account of ine, ‘codeine, Ko.) 
dryness „roughness in the throat. Dr. Heinrich — — 
- a bil —— and inspected the print - shops — ijo rd and — wi e to 
- ip t perceiving 5 * may be ovate oe ars “ake part tie prodaction action of “teacher — wa. Jass r. Ix. obtain ned by 
he met juai e, to whom he talked all kinds of — sugar, albumin matter, and cells. These f the st — IX. e wre v "oi — d: ro udis c Wer 
X and made the most foolish com-! observations, he says, explain certain puse pu — ds d eee 
parisons; from this, everything he locked at seemed to have puzzled physiologists, viz, why plants absorb} apparatus, fittings, diagrams, &e., of 50 per cent on 
