| Show IMITATION OF or PEARLS at a soiree lately held at st Bartholo mews hospital mr exhibited specimens illustrating tle the manner in which pearls pearis we were reproduced produced naturally and the manner in which the natural productions duct ions might be artificially imitated ile he showed that the oyster shell was vias first perforated from without by a boring worm and when the inner layer is reached this layer is af pf pushed ush ed inward ward covered with lustrous coating ng 0 of the shell h ell eil and at length detached the in tro of wires and other foreign bodies from without imitated the action of the borer ani the body became coated or plated with the pearly layer |
