Miscellaneous Intelligence. 441. 
having first initiated us into these utiful researches, which he. 
studied at Heidelberg whence he ee eo first pe seen in 
spectrosco 
action in Paris. Since then it has become all the rage at Paris, and 
recently Mr. Jacmin has sshibited i pare a numerous — a large 
— by Duboseq which projects the spectrum on a s¢ 
r. Grandeau has had the satisfaction of discovering the new metals, 
a and Rubidium, in the thermal waters of Bourbonne-les-Bains in 
larger quantities than in the waters examined by Bunsen. We might at 
first suppose that the discovery of new elements would be multiplied like 
those of the planets by a method at once so simple and certain. It does 
is not sufficient, as seemed at first to be suppo expose a substance 
in the flame of the specious pe to see defined ves traces of all the ele- 
ments it contains, while for those elements which like Cesium and Ru- 
bidium exist in very minute quantity, it will always found n 
arger “ of the associated subs 
a me 
one 
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up to science, and even to the last moment of his long life he was at its 
head. Three Academies of the Institute counted him among their mem- 
gled st the oe of jealous 
pee “a Professor : ssors in the a of Plants.—Messrs. Daubrée 
ak a’Archiae oped their courses i d week of March. Both 
the opening discourses resembled sack phaser Be came an eulogy on 
their predecessors, followed by a profession of faith on their own part, and 
they were commencing. ese opening 
& programme of me Berger atid ead together large audiences who 
eir legit ff 
ly sketch of “ghee of geo tracing its 
Mr. Daubrée gave a master y ske ae oe a came 
hi 
his ly so-called, by the pa ‘otion ia voleanic phenomena, 
and ‘ahiOunead & "commplete ¢ ep exposition of of Metamorph, wt hich a be 
gg Feels, April, 1863, detection of Nat al 
on t is ion of specimens in Natur 
€ 7, rt te from Prof. nin Zt tiation (To the Editors of the Ameri 
respon ed on page cee 148 of the January number of the 
_ nent for 1862, it is stated under the head of the Civic 
of Milan, that the British Museum, and the ene Insti- 
Am. Jour. Scr.—Secoxp Sunrise, VOL. XXXIII, No. 99.—Mar, 
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