238 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
any annual meeting, and relieves them from the necessity of limit 
ing it to discoveries or improvements made during the two years 
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the question whether the idea that the bottom of the ocean is ra 
being preyed upon, suggested in the Reports of the dredging expe 
ditions of H. M. 8. Porcupi i 
ders the bottom barren of life, pointing out many facts with re ze 
to the growth of life, in great variety, over the muddy bottom© — 
seas, | 
leaves of an old linden, in the Vosges. In composition it is am fi 
by Ehembeey and Berth 2 
I It contains, in round numbers, 55 p. c. of cane sugar, *" 
mverted sugar, and 20 of dextrine. It occurred on the yee 
part of the tree, not the lower. Although there were egies 
of the same kind in the vicinity, only this one afforded the mav” 
tare of an insect; but Boussingault thinks that this is not {® 
Source of it in the case of the linden manna; for he had seen 20™ 
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