Show reproduction OF VEGETABLE FORMS the london mechanics magazine contains the following thoughts on the two faculties of feeling and knowing and from a dorkof work of ottinger Oc 1 I chopped up some balm put it into a large glass retort poured rainwater rain water upon it connected the retort with a good sized receiver and let it heat at a cappel gently at first then more strongly upon this there went into the water a yellow greenish oil it took up the whole space of the receiver and swam on oil the surface of the water the thickness of the back of a ta ble knife this oil had the fo form M of innumerable balm leaves which did not riot lap over or ruil run into one another but lay jay side by side sidd each perfectly drawn and with the distinctness ness of all the lines of a balm leaf I 1 let it stand a long time that all about me might observe it at last I 1 shook the receiver because I 1 had to pour it out the leaves ran together but in ies leei s than a minute restored themselves to their former position more distinctly ly the writer in the magazine follows this quotation by saying chemists show that the palf pal ingenere in genese being born again or the resurrection of plants is very pos po sible lible able chemists in great numbers have made experiment 9 by which placing the ashes of ft a plant in a vial those ashes exhale and arrange themselves as nearly dearly as they can in the tiie very figurel which the author of nature first impressed upon them portland portland and transcript |