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found] with hooks fastened on long poles, endeavor to discover the 
mber.in the interspaces, and to draw it up with small nets.” This is 
called “striking for amber.” Like the gum copal of Africa, amber is of 
interest to the entomologist from the insect remains it contains, some of 
which are figured in the second plate (from specimens selected by Mr. F. 
Smith, from the British Museum) accompanying the article, the first plate 
being a geological map with sections of the localities of Amber.—The 
gigantic Dragon-tree of Teneriffe is no more. Its age was estinated to 
years old.—M. Balsamo has obtained mE pe pe 
American and the Italian Cotton plants. He hopes to obtai plant o 
the long staple form of our species pate ere Barbadense) pehi fe 
ripen earlier in Italy than it now does. He has also investigated the 
action of light on the germination shee nhs (He: found by using a glass 
jar full of vegetable mould, that seeds exposed to the action of sunlight 
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contains Vibriones, but during life they are quiescent, showing no signs 
of life until putrescence commences. Professor Hallier, the best author- 
ity on fungi, but who does not accept Frau Liiders’ results as to the 
connection of “moulds” and ‘“vibriones,” announces ‘that he 
Able to isolate and identify from the blood of typhus fever patients a dis- 
ota form of fungus; also in vaccine matter and in other cases. 
diseases? mrien and rr i ai: a to mean ek the 
“ame thing. Frau Liiders has also successfully n that “ oak ” may 
be grown from many “moulds,” as first San by Hallier. — Dr. O. 
Fraas believes that there were formerly glaciers on Mount Sinai. — Dr. 
i has discovered on the shore of the China Sea an enormous 
© Sea-anemone, two feet in di iameter, in which little fishes take shel- 
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-cucumbe 
culture of the Ailanthus Silk-worm in Great Britain to be a delusion. The 
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