New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-07-10
SCIENCE.
Interesting -cleuuac Intelligence BE-.


G.ar,a ~ T.. T's.r, '-rn .', L'.r ssr.'.
Nigrc y -rs- 90 ls.-lt $ reported .l 'hc
Swedish C-1c.al i.-r. a.. mat a tie k'rss Mae,
Al Ko issber-. 40 lguPs 20 Native Silver sever
a. .l- au1 4ic pounds. n bee. obtained g ltlia
.le preceding tSo noltls. Il0 l-l-e a as offer
Cd ll- ssle "a LONDON twenty yt2rs A.. Tor
10000. ont si ed oi purchasers. 10 iow ) 5
% tle ti0ve0-ineLt more shan t.is s-u aalus IS.
AIpttfa Srrlg. 4,Gr 4 fr>sa, Euy.lad. "A
vaila1ie sprls oi miLcra- Cd. mas laG- O. appear
alce Ia a. c.4l rit lear Airef0n. TIE o.. h4s A
DARK. tar, color. bgt GA clst a-oE al rs va.u-
able hql 8. which has been 'ogll ro be- + gocl sub
stltutc tor Ch.ouilrr IS an nc iDf actlag on
Jle nerves %. sensation beside c1.or.-ss .utaai-
able ol., excellent Tor lamps.
be-f1r In-.s Toe B-.-isn Government has
iust.t4tsd tS0 przcs. oue % tive Thousand raucs
With gold medal. AID the oEhor o. one Thousand
ralcs-tle asst Cor the best WORK On A-ricu. tura.
ald the second Tor tue best tcat.se 0a tee Potato
ID sesss TIE nlaAus-rll . must al. tc sent % the
Mmistry ot TIE Interior before tle lst % jan l-7O.
Cif.r. f.rl4 as q = 0l-erf.-C horo'Orm has DOW
been i0lAd 81 dissolve ready tic vaI Is iatts
ia- resinols substances, aud generally al hl-ty
ctrboi lied compounds. l.wIld.ss0i,e -aoa,-hOgc,
aal a tn copal - urms a good Impfd ya-ai.h
G,0iogy ~ Charleston =. {. u late num-
ntr % Slli4aus Joanna. has a loi aud able sr.i-
c.e from .he pen ol P,o;. +. Holmes entitled
Notes ora the Geology %, Charleston --ir. % y acn
- Gather the sol.oxiu- That Charleston. the
Capita. OF south Carolina says tle sutnorI, IS
1olt upon geological formations ide teal 10 age,
aud 10 o,her respects similar t. those upon which
the great cities Ot Lent go sad I1rs aro located.
g curious fact but lately ascertainei. The ba-
sin-saaped depression o, as Ulter ca.rareous
aad other beds as determined in tlc survey inst
maze by Prot Ig'mev, occupies considerable
extent between toe Savannah AMI Pedee Rivers.
aal rests upon ara Ter group OF rocks kro~u O.
3 Go -s's a. he Cretacenus formation. Toe sides
l .lIs basin are .st.mot.t - De o slh .tut ilci-
nation O, produce those artificial ioultairs which
are procured by boring, mud known as 'Artesian
Wells. through Which. b' uydfostsuc pressure.
lh. alter Is forced zap %. 10 nOt above tle surface
r. s basin seems destined Oh cfc'm. as famous In
tls ewes Of the ntiic world as that 90 Paris.
from ttc lumber 1t new aud interesting FOSSIL re-
mans = lib which !, saOuuis y bile tE se oi them
A ready exhumcd aim lorit ra1h shove thatD
the Load d basIn.-Ine exu .ofati ms ready made
have brought % light port. rs at IRE tn" and the
grinders oi fho Mss'usOu and numerous -sstacea.
Discerning below the stplncsue formation
where these ore found Il tine Enrene or love-
Tertiary. the first stratum beng an r'vc-c1.. red
pcaty substance, resting upoa another I'd san',
that separates 10 from the great marI-5ed 0eloF.
This stratum contains qua my ot water, VIII b.
200 TIE ring ~ the Artesian We'll rose zoo tne tube
q witain SIX feet 70 Tia surface, aud greatly oh
st-uct,d the progress 90 the euser D. filing u
with qa.a.sand
Imbel.ed .n the pcaty substance before meu-
toned. are numbers Of r0..e' and water worn rocks
oi al sizes. from aiew inches to foot ln diane
IT, Do hi1n are found the same form OF fossils az
are seen 10 thc great mar bed beiow-whercoi
doubtless these are fragments, broken OF by tie
action ~ the sea ana rolled INTO bou'derllk
masses: their nature changed By some chemical
process, whereby nearly al the lime has been *
ira ted and tue casts 90 the shells are let PFC
served IA siIciOus rock, emitting when broken n
ictid odsr These strnta-the causes OBJ whose
separation and separate dssposit yet remain o. be
MISUNDERSTANDING the first tn feet ct the
uudcryin mari. may be- properly called Ieusio'
dolls cr BasiosRurus bed Of the tntfieston Basln'
which Prot AsasslZ has prom nncei the richest
cemetery of animal remains thai he had everseea.
From it was takenthe most perfect shuli let found
OF that wonderful gisai tic fossil crtac-a an and oy
which was determined the true character oil TINS
singular animal. Isolated teeth aud bones o.
8aslosaurus. Dnotherlun, Megatherum, Equus,
aud nearly fifty species OF Sharks, are ob,aiued m
abundance. The number Of undetermined teeth
and bones s considerable. Two specimens OF
Waluuis " ith the epldermis converted 70 Ignite
three casts Of hickory nuts very perfect and beautl'
tai and fragments oil wood luoE Igulte,l bored
oy the Teredo, whose casts IN mari yet pre-
served, have besn also obtausd and says Prot
Holmes. at every Walt something new is added to
ny stock
Coai iu me Struts n N1geiiln-An announce
ment has lately been made OF the discovery OF coal
10 the Magellan Straits. II abundant aud OF good
quality II viii prove 81 great importance 20 steam
navigation. Samples of the coal, 10 is SAID have
been Transmitted 10 the Admiralty for scientific
examination.
Tie Climate Of Haiy.-M bureau De Ia Male
concludes recent series OF elaborate inves'iga
ions INTO the climate of lent and modern Italy,
with the observation that the limits tor different
agricultural products Were the same In the early
a. in the more recent periods and that from the
tine Of Augustus tii now, there has been no sem
sible modification Of temperature either asresards
the months or the years.
G0itre due - Mggne.iGH S0is 10 J0fer-The
waters Of ihe valley Of lsere have been chemically
aud geoogica.ly examined by NJ. Grange, and q ON
the results has been drawn the conclusion thatthe
goitre or cretuism of Switzerland IS due - the
ieleterOus action Of magnetism salts 10 these wa
ters, or perhaps at times % tho presence OF mag
uesia aud the absence OF the lime required by the
animal economy. The author suggests, as REM
edv. the filtration - water IN large reservoirs
led with carbonate OF lime and thin bed OF
lime.