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hanging ten days the joint was simply roasted, with a part 
of the loin-fat or suet, another part of this being made into 
a suet pudding. The meat when brought to table and carved 
presented the colour of pork. Committee unanimous as to 
its texture—the finest, closest, most tender, and masticable 
of any meat. In taste, the first impression was of its sweet¬ 
ness and goodness, without any strongly marked especiality 
of flavour; it was compared with veal, w 7 ith capon ; finally, 
the suggestion that it was ( mammalian ) meat, with a soupgon 
of pheasant flavour, was generally accepted. Committee 
unanimous that a six-year-old eland would most probably 
yield a meat equally fine in texture, with a more marked and 
distinctive flavour; and that the extreme delicacy of flavour 
might be due to the immaturity of the present animal. The 
portion of fat served with the joint differed from that of 
deer in not rapidly condensing into tallow, but retaining, 
like the best beef fat, its clear melting character; it was 
perfection as fat. Suet pudding extremely light and delicate. 
And, on the whole, the committee rose with the conviction 
that a new and superior kind of animal food had been added 
to the restricted choice from the mammalian class at present 
available in Europe. 5 ' 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
ON THE PRODUCTION AND SOURCES OE ANIMAL HEAT 
AND MOTION. 
Bead before the Utica c Medical Club / Oct. 1, 1858. 
By Prof. A. S. Copeman, V.S., Utica, New York. 
On introducing the topic proposed for discussion this 
evening, feeling, as I do, a strong conviction that there still 
exists in the minds of many intelligent men a somewhat 
vague or indefinite idea respecting the laws of the phenomena 
of vital heat and force, I beg to call attention to the following 
propositions: 
1. It is incompatible with a sound judgment to believe 
that a something can come of or to nothing. 
2. All matter and all force are indestructable; that under 
the present dispensations of Providence not a single atom of 
matter, not a wave or a line of force is ever created or lost. 
