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  2. RENEWAL OF OLD FRUIT TREES.

    A French horticulturist has hit upon a curious mode of revivifying old fruit trees. He recommends that so long at the roots of the old trees are sound they should never be ...

    Article : 198 words
  3. GEOLOGY OF INORTHERN [?]AUSTRALIA.

    The following paper has been compiled from my notes and juounals, during the period I was in command of the Expedition which was despatched by the Imperial ...

    Article : 2,011 words
  4. NEW APPRICATION OF AMMONIA.

    M, Tellier last week communicated to the French Academy of Sciences certain new appliances of ammonia, among which we may mention the following:—"Ammonia, when ...

    Article : 326 words
  5. THEINE.

    Dr, Attfield, director of the Laboratories of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, has published a very interesting account of the result of an examination which he has ...

    Article : 384 words
  6. CURIOUS BEQUESTS.

    On Good Friday morning, after divine service at the Church of Allhallows, Lombard-street, London, the sermon being preached by the Rev. J, Popham, the quaint ...

    Article : 293 words
  7. CRYSTAL MINIATURES.

    At the last meeting of the British Association a paper, which excited considerable interest, was read by Mr. Swan, on a new kind of miniature produced by a novel application ...

    Article : 255 words
  8. A NEW KIND OF ELECTRIFYING MACHINE.

    The electro-magnetic coil has, in a great measure, superseded the electrifying machine; the latter, however, will never cease to be an object of interest, and, it is probable, will ...

    Article : 275 words
  9. PICTURE-FRAMES.

    What is called a "rich and handsome" picture-frame is a sort of conglomerate of scrolls, shells, acanthus leaves, and mouldings, all in a fragmentary state—a patchworks ...

    Article : 238 words
  10. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The University of Chicage possesses the largest, and it is believed the finest telescope in the world. Heretofore Harvard College has held that honour, but the "Clarke ...

    Article : 411 words
  11. TEMTERATURE.

    It is a remarkable fact that all the varieties of circumstance that exist naturally in the earth, whether at or near its surface, are found to admit of some kind of organised existence. ...

    Article : 686 words
  12. CHARQUI, OR JERKED BEEF.

    In reference to the qualities of "jerked beef," which is so much talked of just now, Dr. Edward Smith made the following, remarks at. a late meeting of the Socioty of ...

    Article : 191 words
  13. INSTINCT.

    A chicken which had been hatched, not by a mother, but in a little artificial broodingoven, descried, just as it had broken out from the shell of the egg, a spider, which it sprang ...

    Article : 426 words
  14. OTAHEITEAN ARROWROOT.

    The root grows in the greatest abundance in the islands of Otaheito, Eimes, Huaheine, Raiaten, and Otaka. Its favourite situation is on the sites and ridges of the hills which ...

    Article : 357 words
  15. POPULAR GENEALOGISTS..

    We have more than once had ooeasion to express our wonder at the power of faith manifested by Sir Bernard Burke. But it has not been exactly in our line to ...

    Article : 3,131 words
  16. SOCIAL, SANITARY, AND SCIENTIFIC.

    A new form of fuel, composed of peat and coke, has been patented by Mr. William Smith, of Dublin. The compound is intended to be used in the smelting of iron, and it is ...

    Article : 131 words
  17. ENGRAFTED ANIMAL TISSUES.

    A remarkable memoir, describing the results of some curious experiments regarding the action of engrafted animal tissues, has been written by Signor Mantegazza He has ...

    Article : 243 words
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