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nature, the liquid the next, and the solid the lowest, this con- 
dition of power being related directly to the amount of heat, 
(6) The plant grows from its germ, enlarges, accumulates force 
storing it away in vegetable fibre, and accomplishes its highest 
fanctions in its blossoms and fruit. But there is here only datent 
or stored force generated, besides that which is used up in growth, 
and no mechanical force. he minute spore or reproductive 
cellule of some seaweeds has locomotive power, but it is lost at 
the commencement of germination; and the plant is ever after 
as incapable of self-locomotion as a rock. : 
(c) In the animal, there is not only a storing of force in animal 
roducts (the fifth and highest grade of stored force in nature), 
The creation of any such animal germ out of dead carbon, 
nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen, or any of their dead com unds, 
is therefore op all known action or law of ¢ 
forees; and as much so, the creation of a vegetable germ from 
inorganic elements. 
Moreover, it is seen that the two kingdoms, the vegetable ane 
animal, have their specific limits an ehensive recip 
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ART XLIX.— Eruption of Mauna Loa, Hawan. 
_ THE central crater of Mauna Loa is again in action. ait 
ing to a letter from the Rey. T. Coan of Hilo and the P 
rs, the eruption began on Sunday the 23d of Reap the 
This is the fourth great eruption since the beginning spa 
Year 1848. Previous to that time Kilauea, the still move 5Pt 
Cious crater on the eastern slopes of the mountain, | 
often in violent action, while the summit crater 
