SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, No. 953. 15231 sixty plants only as containing fish poison. Another pocket knife may be made to serve). Place the latter in a wet condition is the worst. It lies so closely that, book, written by Radlkofer, in German (u. Fishvergifm the mouth and see that it is well in contact with the without some special contrivance for insuring an effi tende Pflanzen. Sitz. ber. d. Ma th. Phys. Classe d. K. tongue. Then introduce the hypodermic needle cient circulation of air, the burning of it becomes a Bay. Akad. d. w., Bd xvi., 1886), contains 154 names. through the tracheal wall, the telepnone receiver being matter of extreme difficulty and utterly unproductive Greshoff has very judiciously furnished such long held to the ear meanwhile. Should the body be of any useful result. quotations that we are enabled in many cases to judge touched, even in the slightest degree, there will be a Th'J economy claimed for the process as conducted for ourselves respecting the merit of the statements. scratching sound in the telephone. The working of at Halifax is described as being due to the employment This makes the" Monografia " much more instructive this instrument depends upon the well known fact of the Livet steam generator, which is shown in end than it would have been if we were referred to the that two metals of different kinds, when in contact elevation in the accompanying illustration, and may original paper�. I think that even a reader unfamiliar with the fluids of the body, form a sort of battery be thus briefly described. The two heaters are repre with the Dutch language will be largely benefit.ed by which will give current sufficient to influence a tele-I sented by A A, the upper cylinder by B and the coni a perusal of Greshoff's book, since so many quotations phone receiver. A blunt probe may also be used cal circulating tubes uniting the upper cylinder to the are in French, in German, in English, or in Latin, and through the air passages, a piece of metal of the same i heaters by C C. A separation, or rather division. is we all understand the botanical system he followed kind being connected with the surface of the body and effected by the central wall, D, and the numbers 1, 2, (Bentham and Hooker'S Genera Plantarum) and the the telephone. Annexed I give a diagram of the two. 3 and 4 indicate the different flues in the order in which abbreviations used. Just nere it may be well to say that whatever of platthe gases pass through them after leaving the furnaces I do not doubt that Illy opinion of the utility of the ing may be on the syringe, although it does probably and flue tubes of the heaters, E E, on their way to the .. Monografia. , to our growing generation of pharma-makesome current with the mouthpiece, yet it makes I uptake. It will be seen, on reference to the illustra cists will find opposition. But it seems to me that if such a small amount that, being constant in quantity, tion, that the third and fourth flues of each furnace they will cultivate, every one according to his own i...