105 



These conditions, the coexistence of which in practice is impossible, 

 have prevented practising physicians in modern times from paying that 

 minute attention to the urine of their patients that was customary in the 

 Earliest times of medicine. 



In the accompanying Table, which is founded on many observations of 

 urine, both of health and disease, of specific gravities from 1003 to 1028, 

 I have given what I believe will prove a very useful approximation to 

 the daily excretion of Urea in all cases in which sugar is absent, and 

 albumin either absent, or only present in small quantities. 



The Table is one of double entry, to be used in finding the daily 

 excretions of urine in fluid ounces, and its specific gravity determined 

 by a carefully graduated urinometer. 



I submit it with confidence to the test of practical experience, as I 

 have so often tested it myself in fever, in pneumonia, in dyspepsia, and 

 in kidney diseases, that I believe it will be found a most valuable aid to 

 the physician, both in the prognosis and in the treatment of these and 

 other diseases. 



D. Moobe, Ph. D., read the following paper : — 



DlSCOVEEY OF NEOTINEA LNTACTA (ReICHENBACh) IN IeELAND. 

 NaTUEAL OeDEE OECBTDACE.S:. 



Teibe — Ophbydine^. * 

 Section — Loeoglossum. 

 Genus — Neotinea (Reichenbach). 

 Species — intacta. 



Synonyms. — Aceras intacta (Reich.). Ic. 13, p. 2. 



Orchis intacta (Link.), in " SchraderDiar." p. 1 1 (1799). 

 Satyrium maculatum (Desf.), "Fl. Atlantica," 2, 319. 

 Orchis Atlantica (Willd. Sp.), 4, 442. 

 Aceras secundiflora (Lindley), "Bot. Reg.," 1. 1525. 

 Pery stylus densiflorus (Lindley), " Orchid." 298. 



Halitat. — This highly interesting addition to the British and Irish 

 Floras was discovered, in May, 1864, growing on the dry calcareous 

 pastures of Castle Taylor, county of Galway, by Miss More. 



Obseevations. — "When Dr. Lindley described and figured this plant 

 in the " Botanical Register," he remarked that it had an unusually 

 extensive geographical range for an Orchis ; the present discovery, how- 

 ever, extends the range very considerably, and is highly interesting, 

 geographically, when viewed in connexion with some other plants 

 which occur in the neighbouring counties of Kerry and Mayo. In those 

 counties it is well known that several plants which are typical of the 

 south of Europe Flora, and also of the Flora of North America, appear, 



E. i. a. peoc. — VOL. IX. p 



