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FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS. 
they would survive without food of any kind, some of the 
young ticks were kept in the glass tube in which they had 
been hatched, wrapped in a little cotton-wool, and were found 
to he alive at the end of August. 
A precis of these facts formed part of the annual report 
of the Governors of the College to the Royal Agricultural 
Society for the year 1839, and was published in the Society’s 
Journal, Part 2, 1870. We have, however, thought right to 
give these details, as the subject has been taken up by the “East 
Kent Natural History Society,” and as such they may assist 
in its further investigation. We should also add that through 
the kindness of Mr. J. Algernon Clarke, of the Central Chamber 
of Agriculture, we have at hand a good supply of parent ticks 
from Kent, and plenty of ova for additional experiments. 
In the mean time every effort should he made by farmers 
and others to destroy as many as possible of the parasites, 
wherever they may be discovered, and nothing can be easier, 
in so far as those existing on sheep, in particular, are con¬ 
cerned. A simple dipping of the animals in diluted carbolic 
acid, as was pointed out in the report already alluded to, will 
be found to quickly destroy the parasites, notwithstanding 
their extraordinary tenacity of life. 
Facts and Observations. 
Singular Accumulation of Metallic and other 
Substances in the Stomach and Intestines of a 
Horse. —Mr. J. Begg, Manager of the Springbank Chemi¬ 
cal Works, Bellfield, writes to the Glasgow Herald to say 
that the following materials were found in the stomach (?) of 
a horse, the carcase of which was sent to the Works on the 
6th of March last:— Cf Broken nails, 62 9; nails 1J to 2 
inches long, 30; ditto, 1 to 1£, 144; spring nails 1 inch, 
131 ; f inch tacks, 158 ; screw nails, 6 whole and 3 broken, 
9; rivets, 2; broken gas burner, 1; shoe tackets, 15; 
broken pieces of metal, 129; nail heads, sorts, 102; small 
washers, 5 ; buttons, 4 whole and 4 broken, 8; pieces of 
lead, zinc, and round shot, 75; small pieces of wire, 121 ; 
pins, 33; ditto, broken, 4; needle, 1; ditto, broken, 20; 
small broken pieces of wire riddles, 889; glove catch, 1 ; 
boot eyelets, 7; hook and eye, 1 ; small wire staple, 1; small 
brass ring, 1 ; odd bits of metal, 8—in all, 2525 articles, 
weighing 3 lb. 2 \ oz.; and of gravel and sand, 6 lb. 13 oz. 
Total, 91b. 15| oz. 5 ’ 
A New Source of Sulphur. —A new source of supply 
