On a New Method of Preserving Anatomical Preparations

gaged in making trial of a method, which I believe to be new, of preserving anatomical preparations, the advantages attending which have exceeded my most sanguine expectations. Its principal advantages consist, first, in its great cheapness ; secondly, in the durability of its preservative power; and, thirdly, in the clear and instructive manner in which it displays the minute structure of textures and compound parts. Its great cheapness will be immediately obvious when I mention what it is, and that it is simply the sulphurous acid, which may be prepared in a man-