New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-29

| u:?ed Z nos sDet.. P:of. I'riscF wou,d 90. give
fcn elas, 6z' imply ,te pr ociPes % which tbs Dir
&C. sob 'cUfced ia, tvtc The ptir oi we've to-
teci r:ca. the tPlf.btnsiou Of he general re.cet
IL .ttn pass IA tie tiecal forms Of rveeti- ..iOn
| wlich TIE protltm etniteS AID remNkec rpon the
r,eA, IN po,aDoe Of special forms of aves ,tiou
sdsp,ec TO .pccal css.s xDd gave roue ne result,
| ,fh;s irvcstigatsots of the motiots of pendulum
pfo. CHAvyLsET rac PAPER givitg prsc-
teal uoce f9I Isy gttos to coHec. tbei, 'tGde. de-
| ryeo f-um Observation of doabls alt.t cdes.
| paI+r a Lieut.. +. u Hunt wss read by Mr. Hir =
c,rp, propoSIe ~ yste m Of aboEeys !, quoting
ttes OF sc.sLtihc works, mtuolrs, pspeis, pro
| o,edpcs Tie mass Of scientific paper u iucreasin,
| u;tb trest rrpinity bnd murt devise mean, OF
| ,.so,'y ,efs ming to hem and make the mnemotic
| hind, OF .ur successors lea to co which Sd ,ui
lave ildtxes comPesstc INTO tie brefest in,eugbie
| poi s ArrV,sprR read paper on the PHYSICAL
Copstiturion of Con .ts The sun has inens hest and
ut,lse ueeI etc iorce-vby not electric force! and
Wby Tot aiirbs'e TO this the repuslye fcrce which
,cnyds the hair to hyper boiic fom and sends off the
,si The exitebce OF this rtpuige force is conceded
yby not ackr owledeee il to be elect neal The
i. probsbly electrified, and so reoelled Tbs ako
conis ior the cr,Ing III Of the light electrified MISTER
~ the iaL Or this supposton Il Is great marvel
that the tai shoots out with such velocity, that the
tsi should be CURVED. II accounts also for the hollow
fom Of the tall and for the peculiar appearances at
| the setarltol Of BllaLs comet. Prot. A. also
Geayottd to explain that the 4shes Of light the tail
NAV be actual phenom ma despite the objection dia
| from the velocity Of light.
Some cony enaton followed, IN which VIM, Mitchell
arc Mr. Vaug han toUk part
Mr. j. B. CHERRIsA then read a brief paper OF
roirt in the theory of the Parselogram Of Rotation
winch seeu ed TO have ecsped the noti,e OF Pou,ot
.no al subseuuent writers He followed with a very
interesting paper the Interpretation of Of
suns,ert q ometrica oiscCntinuity giving light
mon the application Of the laws Of algebrs to space
AZ upon toe iund smenta harDoLy of conce tions
Space Win nose oi Auhe' LIE paper was however.
| purely technical.
pIcf DEslsos OLAsTEAD then gave au account of
- most extraordinary and wonderful meteor" which
atpesred D Mississippi and upon which the Professor
gave bis yiews insisting on his periodical body the
| source of stsr showers.
| adjouiIed.
The next paper in order was one by DR.. TIC. HIL-
CARD He wsbtd to present an attempt toward COZ
struetipp an organic law Of PDy l0taxs, toward
struttipp theory of the Of the arrangement of
leaves IL was well known to the gentlemen that hsh
sro ply otaMr or the arrangement OF leaves, had
ony tetn studied in its mathematical relations aud in
i,s analogy TO cosnce 10 geological order. IL had
been sLosn that leaves not opposite are arranged
about stem always in either two, three, tive, eight
or thirteen rows and that If the bases OF the leaves
taken in their order Of Dght the stem be connected
| b, thread winding round the stem then between
aIy two successive leaves 10 row the thread wads
round the stem once If the leaves are IN 40 or three
lows twice il in five rOws three times II IN eight, i've
| if in thteep &c. In other words, two successive
leaves on the thread will be at such dlstauce that
N, re ar, two rows the second leaf will be half way
,ou1 the stem if three lows the second Leaf VIII be
one IN rd of the way round if five, the sec md will be
! twoffths Of the way round If eight, threeeiglths
# thrteer five hiieenth &c. But the question of
| Dr. Hgard is, why is this 60? What is the organic
law Of development that produces this result. IL we
cannot this question, can we not at all events
throw sht upon It, some hint toward It's sol itionl
| II we t,ke q howerstak OF the common pihtan
pshtsgo ma jon between the thumb aud hngers, we
can by twisting the stalk in dire ion or tue other,
suapce is buCs in any number OF rows that the law
of pbyotaxs permits, two, three hve, eight, &c As
we can thus pass from higher to lower hu LDer VI
from low er to higher, at pleasure, By smp twist
iu2 the stalk that Is, by Introducing constant Obs
iuibance at every poLt of the stalk 1t Is paiu th.t
| the hemsticans will allow TIE organic la Y to oe
| foul Geo either upon very high number OF roTs,
which bv coLstait int sfierence reouced 10 smaller
numbers or upon low nuu ber which IS modified into
lcher OF es. TIE former had been the view OF PrJt
Piece in his paper presented 10 the Cambridge meet
ing VIZ: that the organic law Of vegetsole geoTth
contain, as fur dameIta constant, tue surd toward
which the series !, l. %, &c., sppfo1imites; aud
that n,eiferences with II, constant or nearly 20 IN
each botanical species, produced the approximations
Dr. Ucard on the contrary, had sought Tor the germ
of the law vf ply ot,xs in the numerical genesis OF
cells Starting with primal cell generating secOno,
and assuming that the second requires time tO co ne
| to matuIry curing when the ptmal cell recuperates
is powers and produces third, we have ia~ when
gives the pbyl otaXian nunbers one cell genera es
| scond, and then third The frst and secoGd t1en
| sin utaneously generate each one, which make the
whole nun Der fire. The frst, second and third are
makes the wi ole lumber dgM. Five are then sum
ccntly ature 10 generate each one cell, when raises
the whole number thirteen. Here, then, i simple
| mode If conceivng of the genesis OF cells, which
gives us at once the numbers that occur in ply otax
anc ro others. But, reed also the geonetricai
e, ment, the position well as the number OF the
leaves; and il OBTAIN it from this same con
cepion Of numerical genises II viii DC st opg con-
firm aton of the theory that this lies az the foundation
Of this organic law. Now, If W. take iosette oi
| bouse.leek, for example, aud number the leaves OF
| he VII N 4 hX
cetsive Iumb, actually placed in luxtaposIlon to
those which In our law of cell genesis would De ther
parents that Is, and will oe placed al the osse oi
| aud Q; aud at the base OF i, and3, &c
This conception of numerical genesis fuils, therefore,
the geometiical ions required, aLd tiAs asserts
i.s claim to fundamental p si,ion in any theory OF
| the eanc law OF vegetable growth.
Mr.. W. c. REDFIkLD communicated paper by
| Commander John Rodgers United States Navy, COM
mai ding the United States Surveying Expedition,
1" On the Ty pboon of October 2s, lo54 at tue boun
| IslaLcs, with a Sketch OF its Barometrical Curve,
aid Notices Of other Cy clones" Commander Rodgers
states that, out of his experience ne Is DeeVer
in Mr. ked6elds theory of hurricanes, ana that TINS
ibeciy had enabled HIM to avol1 storms in "hcn ne
should have been unwilling to be involved. On the
| 90 of September ls54 he was Ia the China Sea- In
lat "a deg Al min. N, lon ll9 d g. II min b. the
weatl er was Threatening, the ship standlng 10 the
southwark with Gro aLG violent sea- ana sqaan' VI
wind increasing ia frequency ano force. Lie says
| 81 considered that saw cyclone before Us, and
that We should avoid lie force by sailing away from H.
We then stood to the no. .thwaro. The barometer
| soon rose, and the wind moderated. At the D9nln m
| Islands, October os 1854 we bad a typhoon. The
haIbor Of Port Lloyd is formed by the crater OF an
extinct vocaLo The sides rise precpItousy IRON the
water to the hight of some twelve hundred ieet; lou
will perceive, then, that the al choage must De 10
good degree protected from the violence OF the wno.
Yet it blew awfully. 1t stripped al the leaves ifoui
the trees, all vegetation was bighsd, and even the
sweet potato vines in the sheltered vaieys were ue-
stro,ed bv 4 TIE evening before the hurricane the
suii beat more heavily upon the mouth OF the hafoot
than had seen it. Had we been at sea, nave oa'
little doubt that we should have know OF lIs approach
Itis storm Ia xoll descrihed in the accOnp8nylnf