(502 the animal cell/^ 
per cent, of albuminous compounds. If made from inferior 
linseed, the albuminous may be as low as 24 per cent., if 
below 23 it is suspicious, and if much below the chances are 
that it is adulterated. Avoid cheap cakes. If the farmer 
will take adulterated cake without question, merely be¬ 
cause it is cheap, the fair trader must obviously go to the 
wall. 
The value of researches like these it is needless to advocate. 
The long-continued quiet improvement in the quality of our 
live stock, their largely increased number now supported on 
a given extent of land, their early arrival at maturity, their 
increased weight, with a decreasing consumption of food—all 
these great advances have been only attained by patient and 
laborious attention to their breed and food. These success¬ 
ful efforts will, there is no reason to doubt, long continue to 
reward the owners of those noble stocks and herds which now 
adorn our country.— Farmer^s Magazine. 
THE ANIMAL “CELL” NOT ESSENTIALLY DIFFERENT IN 
FUNCTION FROM THE VEGETABLE. 
In a paper read before the Association of German Natural¬ 
ists, at its last session in Frankfort, on the Physics of the Cell, 
Herr Wundt stated as follows :—It used to be thought that the 
vegetable cell had to form organic matter, and that the animal 
cell had to destroy it in order that, by its alternation of creation 
and destruction, the general end of life might be attained. At 
present we are compelled to admit that, if the vegetable cell 
is the seat of a phenomenon of reduction by which carbonic 
acid is decomposed into its elements, a similar phenomenon 
is produced in the animal cell. Nonazotised combinations, 
it is now known, can be formed in the interior of the animal 
cell. Alexander Schmidt was the first to observe that, after 
the addition of carbonic acid to blood, the total contents of 
carbonic acid diminished in certain circumstances. This 
observation furnishes direct support to the idea of a pheno¬ 
menon of reduction. The blood globule plays, therefore, a 
part analogous to that played by chlorophyll in the vegetable 
cell in contact with the carbonic acid of the atmosphere. 
The only difference which exists is, that in the blood-cell 
there is, besides, a process of oxidation going on which 
surpasses the process of reduction. Just as the chlorophyll 
