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).