30 COMBINATIONS OF OXKMURIATIC ACID AND METALS. 



another ; and no bud in a third. In short, instead of that 

 rej^ularity of figure with the line of life leadini^j up to each 

 bud as in fi<j. -i, all will be confusion and disorder. I never 



On til? inc'rn- divide a plant without first niarking it with ap instrument. 



th?mr!!?ef^' I use aliBOSt as many different sorts as a surgeon : to separate 

 the cylinders requires a very sharp and cutting instrument, 

 and I am at lust driven to the necessity of inventing and con- 

 triving my own. 



I noticed above the having frequently found instances, 

 where nature makes use of the same means we should our- 

 selves have had recourse to in the same predicament: and 

 some have expressed surprise at it. But why should we be 

 astonished? whence proceed the ideas of man, but from the 

 suggestions of that Creator whose works we are studying ? Is 

 it strange then, that we should find them alike; when pro- 

 ceeding from the same source? The works of nature are 

 certainly infinitely more perfect; and if we studied them 

 with stricter attention, ours would borrow more of that beau- 

 tiful simplicity, which so admirably distinguishes them. Still 

 both proceed from God alone ; though our notions and ideas 

 are so contaminated with the feebleness of man's nature. 

 I am, Sir, 



Your obliged servant, 



AGNES IBBETSON. 

 Fig. 6, the first passing op of the flower buds, or rather 

 the embryo, as Q, to form the flower at PP. 



Fig. 7 a horizontal section of the wheat in the middle of 

 the fourth knot or band; where the embryo is generated on 

 the line of life, throwing onl two buds at each end ; see RR, 

 SS are the bark vetsels which form the meal. 



II. 



j!n Account of some Experiments on the Combinations ofdif" 

 fereut Metals and Chlorine, Sfc. By John Davy, Esq, 

 Communicated by Sir Humphry Davy, Kiit,f LL. D.\ 

 Sec. R. S*, 



Introduction* 



rfKnb'inations ^^11 Y brother, Sir Humphry Davy, appears to me to have 

 icid -imibr lo demonstrated, in his last Bakerian Lecture, the existence of 

 <'*.'*J«5' * Pbilos. Trans, for 1812, p. 169, a class 



