PROFESSOR AGASSIZ TO THE LATE DR. LEOTAUD. 179 
douce en nombreux exemplaires, jeunes et vieux, y compris 
les especes les plus insignifiantes qua l’on trouve en grand 
nombre dans les plus petits ruisseaux et dont quelques unes 
n’ont pas plus de 3 a 4 centimetres de longueur. II a paru 
& New York, il y a une dizaine d’annees, un memoir© sur les 
poissons de Trinidad, mais l’auteur, Mr. Gill, n’a pas eu 
occasion de comparer ses especes avec ceiles du continent, 
et il n’a pu consulter personne sur la nomenclature qu’il a 
adoptee, en sorte que son travail est a refaire. Agreez, 
Monsieur, &c. 
Ls. AGASSIZ. 
2. On a Method of Burial. 
By William Henry Stone, M.A., M.B., F.R.C.P., 
F.R.C.S., &c. 
(Abstract.) 
After an introduction in wbicb tbe author remarked upon 
the present mode of burial and its concomitant circumstances 
in different countries, he states that it occurred to him that 
the experiments of Dr. Stenhouse on the preservative pow- 
ers of charcoal might be made to bear useful fruit in this 
direction. 
The Author continued as follows : — Dr. Stenhouse 
showed by experiment that the bodies of small animals 
i might be kept embedded in charcoal for an indefinite time 
even in dwelling rooms without giving a single evidence of 
putrefaction. The experience which I can add to his amounts 
to this : that the process is equally efficacious when applied 
to the human body. In the first instance I made use of it 
for the body of a near relative which, from circumstances, 
