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_ upper plate, which is also prolonged 
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ence which, in this respect, the right and left tartaric acids exhibit, since 
both have exactly the same physical properties, the same chemi 
position, and they differ only in the interior arrangement, which gives to 
their constituent parts a rotatory power equal, but in opposite directions, 
stance, and communicate with those in its vicinity, as can be proved by 
careful injection after death: Ollier has likewise proved that, several 
hours after death, the possibility of this transplantation of the periosteum 
sill remains. ; 
_ Prize relative to the unhealthy Arts——This prize was awarded to the 
_ ‘lventor of a lamp suitable for giving light to laborers at work beneath 
su of water. It is a lantern, consisting of a thick cylindrical 
Sovering of glass fixed between two iron plates. reservoir, containing 
interior, ere the apparatus is plunged into water, the air neces- 
‘aty to support combustion comes to the bottom of the lantern through 
two Iron tubes opening up into the atmosphere. e products of com- 
P pestoee ; 
_ Smixture of aleohol and turpentine (“ burning fluid ”) is placed in the 
ed so as to open into the atmo- 
he section is double that of both the tubes, 
through which the external air is supplied. 
_— Wenty metres, It has been used with success at the works of the monu- 
tal bridge built over the Rhine, at Strasbourg. It illuminates a circle 
Men 
: of gm. 50 radius, even in turbed water. 
vize-—In the preceding years we gave much praise to the’ 
‘ommittee in charge of the medical prize. They sometimes expended 
Sten 90,000 fr eet prizes of all kinds, awarded even to chemists when- 
: The Heir labors were important to one of the branches of the healing art. 
is year the committee have been. economical, one knows not why, inas- 
i anti They have awarded only 
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hor ; t works are not wanting. — ’ 
; ’0le mention to physicians for the labors of their profession. 
