[Britain and Colonies]
[William Laidlaw?] *
Genre: | Reportage, Literary Gossip |
Subjects: | Chemistry, Universities | Instruments, Meteorology | Heat, Gas Chemistry, Experiments | Heat, Gas Chemistry, Chemistry, Experiments, Metallurgy | Mining, Geology | Botany, Zoology | Anatomy, Physiology, Natural History |
People mentioned: | Thomas Thomson, John Leslie, Humphry Davy, William H Wollaston, Thomas C Hope, John Abernethy, John Hunter |
Institutions mentioned: | University of Glasgow, Royal Institution of Great Britain, University of Cambridge |
Lists Edward D Clarke's most recent experiments (636). Reports that John Tatum has found that 'vegetables, like animals, convert the oxygen of the atmosphere into carbonic acid gas; and that those very gases which are fatal to animals are equally so to vegetables' (638). |
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