Show curious carious and interesting experiments insects produced by science A great deal of discussion has bas lately taken place I 1 in the scientific in reference ence to certain experiments by mr crosse amateur philosopher plu lo sopher of soro om else eise shire england who was said to have created insects called t the hc jS caris crosse Cros sei it was a mistake I 1 however to suppose that mr crosse claimed he creation of the insects for he only alle alleges es that thattie he I 1 has been enabled to develop insects uner under the most tn singular ilar circumstances oar consul at liverpool mr F F 0 ogdon don has recently visited the house houge of the philosopher and in a letter to TI le ie national teUL eucer gives this account of what he saw 1 I own to utter incredulity until I 1 have the opportunity of a thorough thoi ough examination of oe the process and a full explanation ion of the means no room was left for doubt no delusion no self deception no favorite hypothesis to be carried out had any influence in the result on oil first witnessing the result mr crosse would not believe his own senses he locked up his laboratory and took a ion long I 1 walk in theolen the open air to assure himself that he was vas not nol laborin laboring g under some illusion on oil his fetui n lie he beheld the th e actual living insect in various stages of its formation the apparatus was prepared for the purpose 0 of producing crystals from the silicate of pot potash as I 1 I 1 A retort with its long end plunged in a ga glass ss dish of mercury has a platina wire passing through it connected with eiith a negative pole of a weak galvanic battery through a neck in the retort hermetically sea sealed led another platina wire immersed in the caustic solution communicates with th the positive 0 s i tive pole the bulb bulb of the retort is two thirds birds filled e d with a most carefully prepared caustic solution of silex and potash pure pare black flints and caustic soda after b being finx sub subjected to a white heat are pulverized and melted irit into a hass glass which is soluble iu in distilled water in th this is solution no animal life can possibly possie IV exist nor can an there in the merc mercury tiry the whole was then cl placed aced upon a shelf for constant inspection A 11 gelatinous lat iDous substance was wag first observed to have formed around the bottom of the positive wire then no 1 made its appearance gradually expanding into nos 2 and 3 when flexible filaments were observed no 4 began to sho show life and after one hundred arid and forty days watching through all its changes the perfect living insect crawled up the wire not singly but in sufficient numbers to dispel all doubt if any ny could have existed and prepared for another stage of life like our mosquitoes that emerge from the element in which they are produced produced and are drowned in it if they return any unfortunate un fortunate ort straggler missing n his hold immediately perished eris bed the arus crosser is known as a distinct species |