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Hilaire. Three of these great naturalists have their statues; Daubenton 
alone awaits his. In 1778 Daubenton occupied the chair of General 
= entry repeated anecdotes which pertain to this part of the la- 
‘mount of flour, the bread became better, more nutritious and more 
sory. The art of the baker was also studied by this indefatigable phi- 
lanthropist. His works upon the art of grinding kia and of makin 
has rendered no less service by making known improved processes Qf 
grinding flour and baking, than by extending the culture of the potato.’ 
Artificial Production of Protein Substances.—For a considerable time 
much attention has been given in France to the possibility of preparing 
i i rocesses 
Fae sein i 
€ssor in the Faculty of Medicine at Strasbourg, independently, an 
we at the same nef reached the same result not only for starch 
also for the sugars, and even for coloring matters. 
ished (May 7, 1860) by Schoonbrodt, 
analogous results were ire it wren a duel ke 
* Sucro-nitrile. Without disputing the merit of these observers, we remark 
a2 imputrescible material, In these experiments, Dusart fixed four- 
AM. JOUR. Sct—Szcoxp Serres, VoL. XXXII, No. 97.—Jan., 1802. 
