1 90 Intelligence and Miscellanies. 



and shoulders above that element. Chlorine destroys the 

 peculiar smell. 



Dr. C. is making preparations to manufacture this cloth, 

 for dresses, life preservers, &c. on a large scale. He has 

 secured a patent from government, and expects the ensuing 

 year to supply the Steam Boats of the Ohio, and Mississippi 

 with the life securing machines. 



6. Vermont Manganese. — A few tons may be obtained of 

 Mr. Isaac Doolittle, Bennington iron works. If this be of 

 the same quality as some received a few years since from that 

 place, at the laboratory of Yale College, it may be recom- 

 mended with confidence, as that affords very pure oxigen 

 gas. — Editor. 



7. Geological Notice. — T. D wight Eaton, a son of Prof. 

 Eaton, will collect and deliver suits of geological specimens, 

 correctly labelled, including all the general strata and varie- 

 ties named in the synopsis published in this number of the 

 journal, on the following conditions. Specimens all to be 

 two inches across in both directions, and of a suitable thick- 

 ness. If he receives twenty responsible subscribers, (before 

 the first day of next August,) at $25 per suit, regularly cased. 

 If thirty subscribers, at $20. If fifty, at $15. If seventy, 

 at $12,50. If one hundred, at $10. Subscriptions are to 

 be by letter, post paid, directed to T. Dwight Eaton, Troy, 

 N. Y. with directions whether to be delivered at Albany, Bos- 

 ton, New Haven, New York, Philadelphia, or Washington. 

 The boxes of specimens will be delivered at the above places, 

 the first day of next December, if encouraged, and a letter 

 sent to each subscriber, giving notice where to send the 

 money in payment, and to receive the specimens. Each box 

 will contain seventy-five specimens, and a colored synopsis 

 of the Nomenclature. 



8. Proceedings of the Lyceum of Natural History, N. York. 



(Continued from Vol. XIII. p. 381.) 



April 1827. — Dr. Van Rensselaer read a paper on the 

 larva of an insect passed through the urethra of a female, 

 with several analogous cases. (See this Jour. vol. 13. p. 229.) 



Dr. Mitchill presented a parasitic animal, about twelve 

 mehes long, found in the liver of a cod — the organ being 



