618 ME. .1. B. LAMTES ASD DE. J. H. GILBEET OS THE COMPOSITIOS OE 
I • !-• H- would be easy to suggest seyeral sources of probable inac- 
rimental determinations. nn in tbe collective nitrogenous com- 
by incineration and tliemselves what were tbe relative proportions 
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Looking to the tigures oomuie j scarcely hoped to attain, 
that the correspondence between them is su p^tremely laborious imdertaking. 
We accept it as a proof of success “ J " deriyed horn 
such as gives us moie confidence in a, anticipated. It wiH be easily under- 
them, than at the commencemen we a analysis perfectly proportional and 
stood, that, although the difficulty of getting for a* 
“''^nerTh^t ^suclsrot tUrpXrrill depend only upon the amount of care and 
fabour devoted to it. Feelhig that so much depended upon these, we were, particular > 
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cviyrm -1 iyi Table VI now under consideration, in tins exam 
second decimal place ; and further, that the calculated peiceiitage . 
what lower than the experimental ones. Comparing until each otliei ^ J « 
entlv obtained experimental results, the difference between them is aluays "it nn tl 
tT In the majority of cases, the difference, even in the second decima place, 
amounts to very few units. The actual figures, in these three 
taken as pretty closely indicating the real percentages of 
ouerated upon. They furnish, therefoie, a concise view of the ditteiences 
respect between the different animals, according to their description “ ! ' ?"j; j 
Tt is remarkable, that, of the beef-yielding animals, the whole bo y 
contained scarcely 2| per cent, of nitrogen, and that of 
•about 2i per cent. The fat Calf contained a rather larger piopoit.on 
the fat Ox ; namely, nearly 2^ per cent. 
