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REMARKABLE CONSTITUENTS FOUND IN THE 
drizzled and puzzled land of Scotia, with the hopeful certitude 
that, once penetrating the cerebral depths of his countrymen, they 
will be as difficult of eradication as certainly they are of planting. 
Playfair, who has done good service at Manchester, is not wholly 
idle at “ The Economic.” Though somewhat fallen off from his 
first fervour, and become, perhaps, the least Liebigian and self- 
denying of the disciples of Giessen—-such is the influence of go¬ 
vernment touch!—there is yet in him that which gives both expe¬ 
rience and hope of good service. ITere in London, at the College 
of Chemistry, Dr. Hoffman uprears himself as a third goodly 
column of the Giessen temple; but of such massive yet graceful 
proportions as to be not unworthy of standing isolated, and yet 
winning a due meed of attention and admiration. Then follows, 
with others of less note, his and our highly esteemed friend, Hoff¬ 
man’s professional colleague in college labours, Dr. Sheridan 
Muspratt, one of the ripest and most distinguished scholars from 
the Giessen school, who proposes, we are glad to hear, to dedicate 
his practical genius and rare advantages to Liverpool, to do for 
that modernized concentration of Venice and Florence, and with, 
perhaps, more zeal, what Playfair and Gregory have done for 
Edinburgh and Manchester. Giessen and Liebig may well be 
proud of having furnished England with four such apostles, and 
we—the debtors—may be the less chary in an acknowledgment 
to be warranted by results so certain and so important as those 
which, in necessary causation, must attend the labours of those 
eminent professors. May we and science owe to each a Giessen 
in England. Pharmaceut. Times. 
Remarkable Constituents found in the Intestine of a 
Sheep, and in a Portion of the Contents taken from 
several Others suspected of being Poisoned. 
B\j LI. Osborn, Southampton. 
Last January, Mr. Pinkey, of Berwick St. James, lost 195 
sheep within fourteen days, which induced him to suspect they 
had been poisoned. 
Mr. Spooner, veterinary surgeon, of this town, who was con¬ 
sulted b}' the owner, suspecting the presence of some peculiar 
irritant poison, requested me to analyze a portion of the intestines 
and contents. 
1 first examined some of the intestine in the usual way for 
