THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
LDECEMBER 24, 1839 
1036 
awn — ,appear to involve the constant abso 
was strongly urged that the whole of M once, however, the wood is ner ected, nthe 8 d soon | those of e life D — N d k. — 
Herbarium, known as the Banksian, should be the diseased condition spread rapi » idv. l'auncobEdfransubitánoos lready organised, the derives 
eared to Kew, which should become the extend beyond the limits E k externa it 5 à from unorganised or atter; heat ax nd eee 
centre of botanical science n that situation , The trees are | planted i n old s ton ne pl the ote” DARGA bnt on in vegeta a 
there is already the finest assemblage i energy in animals. 
world of living plants, an unrivalled museum of aue while the Larches pu yw ies v" 25 These propositions, however, although in a 
cts T - Vegetable Kingdom, and a Scotch Firs with them Scotch nse true, are each to be rece ied with nae nen] 
erbarium ared with which the Banksia The disease peer so A er one in | + | tant limitations. Impor, 
sinks into Werle ance. The Kew Herbarium is in Fir which we describe er occasio ha Vegetables, for instance, although mainly instr 
art the pro E x the State, and in part private | we thought that, as c that c 
1 ty. Th F $ hole might e ily become publie ; | impervious substr beet prev ted the Larch | per to the atmosphere the oxygen. consumed, doneres 
i the Banksian would possess | being proper); 1 but this re not appear | theless carry on severa. operations, of w h the 
yan ented y F g proper y 0 8 5 sorption of this very element is the result; 
an interest far beyond ay of any on €—— t.|t case; as nich although mainly dependant upon organised EL 
As a question of mere cost we — B that i pur r, it is clear 5 the er under wh spor r 8 din Wines. 
would be more economi ras eiie ca the Botanical | it has arisen canno mon salí, phosphate of lime, an MU 
collections to Kew than to preserve them as a dis- It may ber m "s in porem that the pre- it "he said that these subs stances aii iron; mi 
tinct Botanical Museum. For to render them at | sence a in the specimens first sent |. veyed t o the em through the medium of the orm 
i or the wants of men of — it | was only acciden Say "für it does pt seem uniformly matters we find them also Organi 
sufficie y 
would not be enough to preserve what alr werd to accompany the disease. M. the um. when proceeding immediately — 
exists in Great Russell Street. It would be ind mineral kingdom. 
pensable in addition to pure ender ac ADE MEMORANDA s Dr. Gilbert states that his Pigs became otat 
sible the bed modern collections that have been fs — Indian meal alone was pem uten 
0 ain our last p appeared a letter. which Mr. | the Aper When supplied w 
h S y 
formed by travellers yin the death of Sir of coal 
JosEkPH BA — W s if we are rightl with | ashes, salt, and ene T "ins ft 
informed, for th part deficient in ghtiy ^ site mt made by the police of Manchester, me which, 0 mineral substan they e aiid a 
ven qnte Perey nt : T k which alread cress of which we gave. We have now to announ — siderable relish ean ; 
Russell Street ; x kr P Y | that a =e serious mistake has deer committed by the Lastly, whilst on the one Pandi ce are n 
at Kew. Moreo f two publie Herbaria are police, as will bes seen n from the ee letter :— ure but that coming a diis io ertum 
a — at cn distant ‘points there ME also cen , own 1 Manchester, bility may actuate the 9 of plants, we hare 
a umstance not to be 15 185 i 
wholly ud d M our paper of the 17th inst., a statement appeared s eed . eal er light are 
Iti iV true that the gentleman who is now the 3 dle rade Memoranda,’ in in which the “Hi Ms ache I ve talea. ym 
ru 32 , Cheetham anchester, ] 
keeper of the Banksian Herbarium would h err 9 riously D ted w upon. and, as it stated, on the I cannot, however, agree with an ingenio as wi 
to be provided for; but during his life he should authority of information re pe D^ ster Polio, a, recent popular work, ontio. the Physiology d 
personally r in ch of the collection explanation, and thereby secure the immediate refutation of a Common Life,“ when he — lants, lll 
which he has v^ so many years done everything | of Hieb e s e an to 4 oe. A: etar 0 1 . e pend upon or sm their 
to render as useful as his 1 . permitted. € | tion was given to Mr. Scott, of Merriott Nurseries, Crewke: Thi to the ol d M us theo hich 
taff would be that of Kew ; and event- | in reply to a letter in which he states he had received a co is return pee edis * Lidig 
—— me ` prie 2- ion from a Mr. Maudley, w. shi th bye ey 1 ht & 
uall a single keeper of the whole would l similarity in ap rance, read Maudsley, bein, of a | be maintained on more pudica. pue de 
cient. — Shoul ese two ant foci of vegetable | notorious i er in this city. * Mapi dedi regret "that ud stale and often r efuted argument de rived from tte 
we shall here- | Mandley, Who is, as I have aed, 8 entlem: ighly utilit ai 
bins a peaking of 
rather than | Se 
advantageous to 
When we nt that to rode a new site i 
London for the Banksian Herbarium would be far 
more eostly than at Kew, . the ding whioh of a 
rooms in the b e ou 
our article upon the curious form of 
EE ROT which has appeared in the North of 
England was written, we have received some 
excellent — and a little additional in- 
ar the iim which — y 
cular 
the ring of the previous AEn growth is quite 
hable ch 
obedien: 
“Chief Constable of — 
e Editor of the Gardeners’ Chronicle.” 
wi need not say how much we regret having been | 
unwittingly made the channel 5 publishing what; as it 
now appears, was a complete mis-statem and 
| hasten to make all es Tani —— 
of | de. publie press, 
like all other conduc are | a 
| extremely anxious to — such accidents, which, how- 
ever, will sometimes occur. 
A LECTURE ON THE | THEORY OF ANIMAL 
NUTRITION, 
> 
WITH REFERENCE TO THE — ON THAT 
SUBJECT CONTA! 28 Pisos 
EWES’ “PHYSIOLOGY OF 
Babe on November 15, 1859, ag god ‘te Onani 
DAUBENY, M.D., F, R. 8., Professor of Rural 
ee omy in ee University. 
- n I have Lect ire 
you the v of p aron x LM w with respect 
nutrition of 3 and attempted, by availing wary 
val ees principles that may be gathered from the 
ings of that eminent philosopher, to explain by normally present in the system em of an ani 
Saisi considerations some of the phenomena o t rate th e is this di 
| living bodies. twi ki 
e principles al alluded to have since undergone the | kno 
and Robin, vach merely som that fi 
ic substance. The question 
e constituents of the manure, or of the 
olved in the soil, are 7 assim · 
& 
ibu 
| resolved into their elements 1 
reely, as 2 are requi uired, to 
into c 
ey are brought i 
nd with rega 
ant by yi ielding th 
e bodies with 
ontact. 
^g the converse E ia | 
nimals far be capable . 9 me 
| — it ilit 4 
— 
I 
composition of the animal 
| agency of chemical forces, or 
from inorganic matter wit! 
As an abstract question, indeed, I d 
such chemical compounds as are 
might not be produced by the same affinit 
but the practical consideration is is, whether the 
—— p ely to occur, at least 
á pee ist prts the Ng 
ich can be recon 
ding which is still healthy | ordeal of t ears' searching examination, and, as it 
deed layer, but when | a rs to me, still continue in the main to stand their 
growth of the year has ceased a portion of that ground; so that i in adopting them as the basis of my | sho 
diseased and no more wood is and upon kindred subjects, I feel! fruit, as we lominates 1 7 r 
cath the diseased „ The same 5 if 1 were ‘building o a foundation that had been amatora, rie owt do th g Loo of th 
di after all the more firmly consolidated in consequence of the | the carbonic present 
goes on year year, so that a depression em Thus 
made, and when the bark is stri — opposition it has ex — — 
„which, if it be Pp — — to tem ing nE eos tie as ME I am bound | E pd acid 
mportant reservati lst, that the of ditto.. 
with — ee Fa resembles an adoption ofl Liebigs Me up on my part only y| et E drous ` oxalic 
ck More Pee: “above | to fundamental propositions he has —— 6 of hydrous di i & 
; 8 E x ous es domein OE le, T n ed — te sm the 3 H 6 
fined to the sod alae Pt ls more than mere His d. vira r : hing lof vie 12 12H12— 
istry is in buildin of Grape sugar. proim byH. 
and downwards, IE the 1 abric. ^ g up Or 12 of carbonic acid with } its be gt 
ut Liebig has lately found, that tartano — 
] yious y PEE erse. secti In er therefore to remove th against artificia a reflex szali 
some distance from tig — 1 ogi "€ 8 ull the chemical theory, which e we Mni ves tg those, | uch as nitric acid, from sac of E ri same 
d is distinctly defined, and while the wood of who argue as if the truth of its ‘ates y so de was ews ne or Grape sugar rand the process 
the year before the dis commenced is strongly involved in that of an any of the mo which the by, the following form be violent 
discoloured, that wá m succeeding years is only | them, and have chosen to deduce from | 1 of sugar, with N O 5, if the action 
slightly altered. in BK The bark óf the as if chem ust be set new 3 6 of oxalic acid 
diseased patch is thoroughl ted wi IP Ue nd feque ft o ire i And 
the spawn of the Fun ar err ie aie mystery of life, I will in the first place bedercid 12 of wate 
at bak T is so ceri few of the general conclusions which Liebig has arrived | x of sugar, wit 7 ste dg X 3 j 
made in it it is covered with be eni in the | to physiol — aricacid.. 94 ad 4 
ogy and pathology"; 2d s s 
course of 33 two days. The wood also which tions that have em By | -— discuss | 112 si waren : 23 
was produced t e year before the commencement al be 
H +h ipl tical appli — 3 of hyd: rta d being A 
of the disease, ade of pearl Á Er mime — 2 9 A 
death, is almost cc impregnated, | the test of inquiry, of sugar — 2 
as also in their proportion are the layers deposited | Fi irst then I , conceive the contrast between the 
afterward 15 E IM t tartaric acid is sugar half 
It should seem, then, that the disease doos rked char „as it did at thet The sume compound therefore i p 
3 and that the Fungus is * ngagement of oxygen, as 
Sis fon Mir end oar thi hu qui Sep Sb a a azid wore to bé e en the 
*Statique chimique des êtres organisés. be by the latter agency and not 
