444 Scientific Intelligence. 
weeks (where, the wonder is, that it should have grown at all, sepreance 
of the arsenic), he cut off its top, tested it for arsenic, and found “them 
distinct indications of the pres ence of that substance.” Finally, to ascer- 
evidence of having been arseniated.” The facts thus collected appear to 
Dr. Davy “to have some important bearings; for though the quantity of 
arsenic which occurs in such manures is not large when compared with 
their other constituents, and the proportion of ‘that substance which is 
thus added to the soil must be small, still plants may during their growth, 
as in the case of alkaline and earthy salts, take up a pensions Listers 
ercise an injurious effect on the health of men and anima Dr. y’s 
paper is Pee a the London, Dublin, and Edinburgh Puilsophieal 
Magers ong: | . 
Death of ip. a tall.—We learn that this veteran Eon ll 
whose healih has for several years been much impaired,—died on the 
10th of September last, at his residence, Nutgrove, near Preston in Lan- 
eashire, at the age of seventy-three, In view of the great services which 
Mr. Nuttall has rendered to the botany, ornithology, and mineralogy of 
the United States during the last forty sta a fitting tribute to his mem- 
ory may be expected from the hands of some of his surviving friends. 
wag 
vice, at the India ‘Howe ba. continued aan ae to the fom om ‘i 
lo: ae ~ sche — 
af Ar oie Seco naturforhallanden och fon orntida utbredning, af Orro 
i Part I, 8vo, pp. 154 and 2 plates, Stockholm, 1859.—A work 
of much interest to naturalists and others who have directed their re- 
atc to the Arctie regions, thes rst part commences with a bishent: 
to 
rely as has been recently determina a: Baird and Cassin. In “the 
| show the eee of the author pln 3 
on the New coast. 
species also : 
is Orn nigra. Mytitus levipalus discrepans 
