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Scientific Intelligence.
Citizen Berthollet communicated a notice on a particular acid which lie had . discovered , and to which he gives the name of . the zoolnic acid , because it is extracted essentially from animal substances . Citizen Dolomieu read a memoir on the Tourmalines found in Mount St . Gothard , the object , of which was to examine how far colour , considered as a character of stone , can determine its nature .
Lastly , the new experiments of Citizen Vauquelin on the red lead of Siberia , and the new earth which he found in the beryl , or aigue marin , were the subject of another memoir .
PYROTECHNICS , THE Paris papers announce , that an experiment is soon to be made there with a balloon that will continually discharge a shower of fire , by means of a machine which they denominate infernale . BOTANY . IK the neihbourhood of Oporto there is still standing in a garden
g , which about 30 years ago was in the occupation of Mr . Wood , an Eng lish merchant many years resident there , a surprisingly large orange tree , which at that time usually produced the vast number of 15 , 000 or 16 , 000 oranges in one season . The tree is now in a decaying state , but it is still looked upon by the nei ghbouring inhabitants with a sort of veneration , and they point it out as an objeft
worthy the attention of all strangers . The cocoa-tree is the most profitable plant in the known world . Numberless instances have been known of a single acre of cocoa-trees , in the island of Jamaica , producing to the owner a clear profit of upwards of icot .
NATURAL HISTORY . ON the 19 th of April , a cat in the Grass-Market , Edinburgh , brought forth a kitten of a curious description : it has eight legs and four ears ; two of the latter are close together upon the top of the head , the-others in the usual places . From the navel , backwards , it separates , and has all the parts complete of two , —one male , and the
other female . The fore parts are of those of a single animal , excepc the ears and legs . It was haired and full-grown , and probably had come into the world alive .
MINERALOGY . UPON the authority of the late Mr . Wedgewood , every succeeding mineralogist has given theSidnea , by some called the Austerralis , as a distinct genus of earth . Professor Klapro . th lately made some experiments by which he thought himself warranted to reject it ; but Mr . Nicholson in his Journal doubted whether his experiments were
rnade on the same substance , which doubts have been completely removed by a course of experiments made with the most scrupulous accuracy , by Charles Hatchet , Esq . On the present occasion every suspicion of inaccuracy , from the subject employed being different , is completely removed ; for the remainder of the identical specimen analysed by Mr . Wedgewood , was by Sir Joseph Banks put into the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Scientific Intelligence.
Citizen Berthollet communicated a notice on a particular acid which lie had . discovered , and to which he gives the name of . the zoolnic acid , because it is extracted essentially from animal substances . Citizen Dolomieu read a memoir on the Tourmalines found in Mount St . Gothard , the object , of which was to examine how far colour , considered as a character of stone , can determine its nature .
Lastly , the new experiments of Citizen Vauquelin on the red lead of Siberia , and the new earth which he found in the beryl , or aigue marin , were the subject of another memoir .
PYROTECHNICS , THE Paris papers announce , that an experiment is soon to be made there with a balloon that will continually discharge a shower of fire , by means of a machine which they denominate infernale . BOTANY . IK the neihbourhood of Oporto there is still standing in a garden
g , which about 30 years ago was in the occupation of Mr . Wood , an Eng lish merchant many years resident there , a surprisingly large orange tree , which at that time usually produced the vast number of 15 , 000 or 16 , 000 oranges in one season . The tree is now in a decaying state , but it is still looked upon by the nei ghbouring inhabitants with a sort of veneration , and they point it out as an objeft
worthy the attention of all strangers . The cocoa-tree is the most profitable plant in the known world . Numberless instances have been known of a single acre of cocoa-trees , in the island of Jamaica , producing to the owner a clear profit of upwards of icot .
NATURAL HISTORY . ON the 19 th of April , a cat in the Grass-Market , Edinburgh , brought forth a kitten of a curious description : it has eight legs and four ears ; two of the latter are close together upon the top of the head , the-others in the usual places . From the navel , backwards , it separates , and has all the parts complete of two , —one male , and the
other female . The fore parts are of those of a single animal , excepc the ears and legs . It was haired and full-grown , and probably had come into the world alive .
MINERALOGY . UPON the authority of the late Mr . Wedgewood , every succeeding mineralogist has given theSidnea , by some called the Austerralis , as a distinct genus of earth . Professor Klapro . th lately made some experiments by which he thought himself warranted to reject it ; but Mr . Nicholson in his Journal doubted whether his experiments were
rnade on the same substance , which doubts have been completely removed by a course of experiments made with the most scrupulous accuracy , by Charles Hatchet , Esq . On the present occasion every suspicion of inaccuracy , from the subject employed being different , is completely removed ; for the remainder of the identical specimen analysed by Mr . Wedgewood , was by Sir Joseph Banks put into the