442 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
except at the joints, where he had succeeded in maintaining a certain 
degree of pliancy. The results obtained by Mr. Segato in this direction 
were altogether wonderful, and many strangers used to visit his collection 
at Florence, where he had settled. Nevertheless he was not encouraged, 
first, on account of his political principles, and, secondly, because the 
clerical party, which was then all powerful, got up a ery of impiety 
against him. His secret found no purchasers, and he died in consequence 
of a complaint which he had contracted in visiting some of the wildest 
parts of Africa. A short time after his death, the late Abbé Francesco 
Baldacconi, director of the Museum of Natural History at Sienna, ob- 
tained certain results which led to very strong hopes that Segato’s secret 
might be re-discover r. Baldacconi’s process consisted in steeping 
the anatomical specimen for several weeks in a solution of equal parts of 
corrosive subli an lammoniae, a mixture which by the earlier 
chemists was called sal alembroth ; and in 1844 a liver thus prepared 
was sent over by him to the Academy of Sciences here. This specimen 
had acquired the consistency of steatite, or of serpentine, and was per- 
fectly incorruptible. The Italian papers now state that a Sardinian nat- 
uralist, Professor Marini, has re-discovered Segato’s secret. His 
still more remarkable results than his predecessor. He has constructed 
a small table entirely composed of petrified animal substances, viz: brain, 
blood and gall, and having quite the appearance and consistency of brec- 
cia. His preparations are incorruptible, they preserve their natural color, 
and will resume their original state on being immersed in water for some 
time. Professor Marini intends to exhibit = preparations in ad aris 
now known to extend far to the west, ini cies as ian Sea to Van, 
Diarbekin, Malatia and Ienischehir. A considerable fall occurred in Oroo- 
miah, to the southwest of the Caspian, in 1829. It is common a:so in 
es Africa over Sahara. The manna is ground to flour and made 
into bread. Mr. - Hogg suggests, in The Reader of Aug. 13, that the 
ve southeast or northeast, which, falling with the rain, quickly 
Mr. Hogg refers to an article of his on this manna and the manna of 
the Israelites, in vol. iii, pp. 183-236, of the Zransactions of the Royal 
Society of Literat ture. B, Seemann, in the same Journal, observes that 
the manna of the Scriptures has been regarded, and with better reason, 
- the substance called manna which exudes from the Tamarix Gallica vat. 
es that 
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