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MISCELLANEA. 
PRESERVATION OF MILK. 
The following method is recommended for the preser- 
vation of milk, either at sea or in warm climates : — 
Provide pint or quart bottles, which must be perfectly 
clean, sweet, and dry ; draw the milk from the cow into 
the bottles, and, as they are filled, immediately cork them 
well up, and fasten the corks with packthread or wire ; 
then spread a little straw on the bottom of a boiler, on which 
place the bottles with straw between them, until the boiler 
contains a sufficient quantity. Fill it up with cold water; 
heat the water, and, as soon as it begins to boil, draw the 
fire, and let the whole cool gradually. When quite cold, 
take out the bottles and pack them with straw or sawdust in 
hampers, and stow them in the coolest part of the ship, or 
in a cool place. Some years since there was a Swedish or 
Danish vessel at Liverpool, having milk on board, preserved 
in this manner. It had been carried twice to the West 
Indies, and back to Denmark, and been above eighteen months 
in the bottles ; nevertheless, it was as sweet as when first 
taken from the cow . — New Monthly Mag. 
On this subject the Editor of the Chemist/ in the May 
number remarks, “ We lately tasted, at the Royal Institution, 
milk preserved by M. Mabbru’s process, and which had been 
presented by the Abbe Moigno to Mr. Barlow, who alluded 
to it in his lecture on preserved meats and vegetables. This 
milk was one year old, and was as sweet as when first drawn ; 
a considerable quantity of cream had collected in the neck of 
the bottles.” 
EXAMINATIONS AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OE 
VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
The following are the names of the gentlemen who passed 
their examination in the science and practice of Veterinary 
Medicine, and received their Diplomas on the 1 6th and 1 7th 
and the 23d and 24th of May : — 
James Meyrick, London 
J. F. Cawthorne, Ealing 
D. S. Hinge, Hounslow 
George Western, London 
Barnes Wimbush, East Barnet 
Egar Sharman, Thorney-Abbey* 
