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continents. How great 
mate and natural features of India had its trigonometrical or 
revenue surveys been carried out in the same catholic spirit ? 
And what scientific literature can England and its colonies show 
to compare with that of the United States surveys?” _ 
These extracts were taken from the report in the Times news- 
paper, of November 30, in advance of the official copy in the 
Royal Society’s Proceedings. 
2. Observations on Hermetically-sealed Flasks opened on the 
Alps. Ina letter to Professor Huxiey, from Professor TyNDALL, 
dated Alp Lusgen, September 18th, 1877.—Though the question 
wo 
but for six weeks fifty of the flasks remained perfectly clear. 
Spirit-lamp, and to keep my body 
Snipped off their sealed ends. ae 
he two groups of flasks were then placed in our — _ 
hen, where the temperature varied from about 65° to 
Fahrenheit. 
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