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M. Galippe, in a paper read before the Biological Society of 
Paris, described the following experiment : — A rabbit received 
daily for six months a large dose of copper acetate. At the end 
of this time it was served up at the table of the learned chemist. 
The liver weighed 70 grms., and contained 13 centigrms. of 
copper, M. Galippe partook of it, and has suffered no incon- 
venience. 
Anew named metal, Norwegium,has been detected and isolated 
by Dr. Tellef Dahll in a sample of copper-nickel from Kragero, 
in Skjaergaarden. The colour of the pure metal is white, with a 
slight brownish cast. When polished it has a perfectly metallic 
lustre, but after a time it becomes covered with a thin film of 
oxide. It can be flattened out in an agate mortar, and in hard- 
ness it resembles copper. The melting-point is 350° C., and the 
specific gravity 9*441. Its equivalent appears to be 145*9. Only 
one oxide, NgO, has been obtained. With sulphuretted hydro- 
gen it gives a brown sulphide, even in strongly acid hydrochloric 
solutions, which re-dissolves in ammonium sulphide. With a 
slight addition of potassium ferrocyanide it gives a brown, but 
with larger proportions a green, precipitate. The sulphuric 
solution is turned brown on the addition of zinc, and the metal 
is deposited in a pulverulent state. The solutions of this metal 
are blue, but become greenish on dilution. 
Two new phosphates, found at Skipton Caves, Vicftoria (N.S.W.), 
are described by Vom Rath in No. 79 of the “ Bull. Soc. Min.” 
(France). H annayite — Triclinic, basal cleavage perfecft ; less 
perfedl parallel to two prismatic planes ; sp. grav., 1*893. Com- 
position : phosphoric acid, 45*70 per cent; magnesia, 18-90; 
ammonia, 8-09 ; and water, 28*20 = 100-89 P er cent * Loses, be- 
tween ioo° and 120°, 21-08 per cent water. Newberyite — 
Orthorhombic ; cleavage brachydiagonal, perfedt ; basal, imper- 
fect. Composition : phosphoric acid, 41*25 ; magnesia (by dif- 
ference), 23*02 ; water, 35*73 = 100 per cent. 
Huntilite, named after Dr. Sterry Hunt, occurs at the Silver 
Islet Mine, Lake Superior. According to the “ Engineering and 
Mining Journal ” it occurs in two varieties. The most abundant 
is amorphous, often porous ; dark slate, grey, or almost black ; 
dull. The crystalline variety is cleavable in one direction, and 
of a lighter slate-colour. The probable formula is AsAg 3 . 
The “ Mineralogical Magazine ” for July contains several inte- 
resting Papers, among which we may mention the following : — • 
“ Contributions towards a History of British Meteorites,” by 
Townsend M. Hall ; “ Geognosy and Mineralogy of Scotland,” 
“ Preliminary Notice of Supposed New Scottish Minerals,” and 
“ On Haughtonite, a New Mica,” by Prof. Heddle ; “ On some 
Gold Occurrences,” by Rev. J. Clifton Ward ; “ Additional Note 
on Penwithite,” “ On Christophite from St. Agnes,” and “ On 
the ‘ Maxwell- Stuart ’ Topaz,” by Mr. J. H. Collins; “On 
