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tion in the ordinary direction (bright surfaces first) ; the rumble of 
ht is at first insufficient to 
is lessened during certain intervals, and the apparatus is thus 
rendered more sensitive to light.— Nature, xiv, 419. BE. 0. P. 
. Fusion of Soft Bodies.—M. PraunpueR has presented to 
the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Vienna, papers on the nature 
of the soft or half liquid state of aggregation, and on regelation 
and recrystallization. After dividing the bodies in question into 
mixtures of small solid parts with true liquids, soft bodies proper, 
containing no dissimilar parts, and mixtures of the two classes, 
he gives a hypothesis on the process of melting and the soft state. 
e common ideal melting process, when the temperature remains 
the same from the beginning to the end is not according to fact. 
ed. 
the Electro-magnetice action of Electric oe 
by Dr. Hetmnorrz. A report on some experiments carried ou 
* Monatsbericht of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, June 17, 1875, P- 405. 
