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tried to make his escape. I made a ring of red hot wood 
embers and placed a scorpion in the middle. He pushed his 
way out, displacing two of the embers. I made a better fire- 
wall, and put him in the middle again. He crept over the 
embers. I placed him in the midst of a ring of embers on the 
= fat and much-heated stone of the fire-place. He crept over the 
embers again, but this time got baked before he could escape. 
4. Placing in burning alcohol. I placed a layer of an eighth of 
an ‘inch of alcohol in a shallow vessel, lit the alcohol, and placed 
the scorpion in the midst of the burning spirit. 
5. Placing in concentrated sulphuric acid. I moistened the 
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sulphuric acid, and put in a scorpion. The creature died in about 
ten minutes. (I have also tried other strong acids, a concentrated 
-solution of sodium hydrate, and a potassium cyanide solution.) 
: 6. Burning phosphorus on the creature’s body. I placed a 
and lit the phosphorus with a touch of a heated wire. The 
Creature tried to remove the phosphorus with its sting, carrying 
aWay some of the burning material. 
Me 7. Drowning in water, alcohol and ether. 
tly barbarous (the sixth is positively sickening) to induce 
n who had the slightest suicidal tendency to find re- 
‘destruction. 
n all cases repeated the experiments on several individ- 
ave in nearly all cases examined the dead scorpion 
lens. My belief is that the efforts made by the scorpion 
source of irritation are put down by those who are 
med to accurate observation as efforts at self-destruc- 
/ one occasion I called in one of my servants to. 
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bottom of a large beaker with a very thin layer of concentrated 
nd over its back, upon which my servant exclaimed, 
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