QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 
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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 
article: XXII.—queries and answers. 
Answer to Correspondents and Queries, by the Author of 
the Domestic Gardeners’ Manual.—-Before I reply to J. B. I must 
require the readers to correct a few important errors of the press.— 
Vol. 3, page 100, the names Antipholi and Dromios’ should com¬ 
mence with Capital Letters. The word perstiteste in the latin 
lines, at the conclusion page 101 should he perstitisti. Page 112, 
line 10, for “elements” read “element,” omitting the terminals; 
add an s to the word “concomitant” in line 29. Page 113, line 3, 
for “highly” read “slightly;” ditto, line 24, for “acid” read “arid.” 
I have not time, on the present occasion, to answer J. B. of Gos¬ 
port, minutely. To his first query, Vol. 3, page 91, (for I conceive 
him to he identical with J. B. page 107.) I reply, that, unless par¬ 
ties meet on equal ground, there is little chance of arriving at a 
clear mutual understanding. My mind disclaims in toto, the exis¬ 
tence of latent caloric ; J. B.’s is evidently embued with that theory. 
I entreat him then, to wait for what I must notice upon the subjects 
of light and heat; also of manures in future articles. Interim ,—I 
beg him to re-peruse the article upon Water, in the number for Ja¬ 
nuary. I therein find no passage which implies the theory that he 
ascribes to me: viz. “that I do not consider the union of the two 
gaseous compounds of water sufficiently accounted for by the evolu¬ 
tion of Caloric." Caloric again ! let him peruse Par. “Third,” page, 
third, with attention. I base all my theory, (for in all other matters 
I have adduced facts and experiments of assured, admitted cer¬ 
tainty) upon the universal distribution of pure solar etherial electric 
light. I advance it, fearless of denial, that light, perhaps modified, 
lies masked, in certain definite proportions and adaptations through¬ 
out all created matter: that it is the source of all attraction, decom¬ 
position, and chemical action. Has not Dr. Faraday very recently 
ascertained this to be the fact, by actual experiments ? So at least 
he is (in sundry public Journals) said to have done, but as in my 
retired, and studious way of life, I am not at all times, able to ascer¬ 
tain what is going on in the scientific world. I have determined to 
apply to the fountain head, and to obtain from Dr. Faraday himself, 
direct information of what is discovered. For, if that which has 
been stated in the papers be correct, a triumph indeed is afforded to 
one who has for years advocated, without deviation, the universality 
of the agency of etherial light. 
