OIZZAKD OF FOWLS, (Jq;^ 



Letter concerning a Library ejlahlijhed at Aberdeen. From a 



TuAVELLER. 



IR, York Hotel, Bridge Street, Blackfriars. 



I AM extremely glad to find, that there is a (ubrcription 

 library ertabliftied in Aberdeen,' lam aftoniflied, however, 

 to be informed from IVIr. Crombie's paper, that none of the 

 very learned FrofeiTors in that part of the country are engaged 

 in the undertaking! perhaps if the fubfcriplion was raifed to 

 one guinea per annum, much more good might be effeded, 

 and thofe gentlemen would not then fcruple to join them- 

 felves; their freedom as to pecuniary motives is well known. 

 I hope for the fake of tiie genera! difiufion of knowledge, to 

 find myfelf equally miftaken with regard to Banff, Peterhead, 

 and Invernefs. Thefociefyat Aberdeen, though young, feemsto 

 be conducted with great liberahty, as appears evident from their 

 offer of affjftance to the places above mentioned, or any olh^r 

 that may be now forming rules ; is it too much for a friend 

 to the fpread of ufeful knowledge to fugged to them an ex- 

 tenfion of the benefits of their alfociation, to thofe gentiemeii 

 who are members of funilar focieties, whilft in Aberdeen, on 

 condition of a return of fuch civilities, fliould any of their 

 members be where fuch libraries are? a rule of this kind you 

 Sir, have mentioned with applaufe in a former number, 



Your's, &c. 



February 7, 1 SOG. 



A TRAVELLER. 



V. 



A Chemical and Medical Examination of the Gizzards of White 

 Fo-jols compared with Gelatine, together with an Expofition of 

 the Chara&ierifiics of the latter ivhen oxigenaled, By. M. 

 Bouillon Lagrange*. 



It has long been underftood, that the gizzards of white Gizzards of 

 poultry poffeffes certain medicinal qualities. The ufe made of fowls mediGa'.ljr 

 it by many phyficians may juflify fome reliance upon the " ^ * 



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