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increasing the secretion of bile to such a degree, that the 

 large vessels even are colored yellow by it. — Ibid. 



30. New Agricultural and Manufacturing Establishment 

 in France. — The king has directed the purchase and addi- 

 tion to the domains of the crown, of the territory de Grignon, 

 at the price of about a million. It will be placed at the dispo- 

 sal of a stock company who will manage the concern so as to 

 derive the greatest advantages from the soil, agreeably to the 

 most judicious procedures. They will receive 300 pupils 

 who will be taught the theory and practice of agriculture, 

 horticulture, the economy of farming, and the art of deriving 

 by means of various fabrications, the greatest possible ad- 

 vantages from the productions of the soil. The shares are 

 1 200 francs each ; the society is chartered for 40 years ; the 

 king takes 400 shares, and abandons the profits, which are 

 to be applied to the increase of the establishment, and to the 

 diminution of the pension required from the pupils.— Ibid. 



,31. Chlorate of Lime. — M. Lemaire states that a solution 

 of chlorate of lime in the proportion of one part of the salt 

 to three of water, has proved very useful in the cure of ulcers, 

 which have thereby been cicatrised in the course of eight or 

 ten days. The proto-ioduret of mercury has had the same ef- 

 fect. M. Latbert asserts that in the military hospitals, the 

 good effects of the chlorate of lime had been before verified. 

 M. Vauquelin remarks that Dr. Chamsem had for some time 

 employed the oxygenized muriatic acid diluted with water, as 

 a drink in syphlitic diseases, but the irritation which it cau- 

 sed in the stomach obliged him to renounce it. The urine 

 and the foeces were white and entirely discolored. — Bull 

 Univ. Jan. 1826. 



32. Theory of Flame. — An interesting paper on the na- 

 ture and properties of flame, was read by G. Libri, at the 

 Society des Georgophiles (Florence,) on the 3d of Decem- 

 ber, 1826. The author was led to doubt the correctness of 

 the theory or explanation given by Sir H. Davy, in order to 

 account for the phenomenon of his safety lamp. The dis- 

 tinguished inventor ascribes the security which the lamp af- 

 fords to the conducting power of the metallic gauze, by which 

 it is supposed the temperature of the flame is so much lower- 

 ed as to be insufficient to ignite the inflammable mixture on 



