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July 17th 9° 40'. Decoction Cabbage. leaves (chopped.)

4 white stick with red Heads— thick fluid naturally only simmered for 20° in hot closet never boiled. (July 18' 8°; one leaf much inflected; 2 other 2d somewhat inflected; 3d with sub-marginals inflected, 4th no effect

4 yellow & red sticks rather thick fluid not so thick as before long boiled

July 18th 8° 15 all 4 enormously inflected with every tentacle inflected.

Boiling

5 black sticks do. fluid diluted with 3 parts of distilled water ie. 4 drach of the fluid with 12 dr. of distilled water

July 18' 8° 15 all 5 with laminæ (& almost every tentacle) enormously inflected, as much as by infusion of raw meat; in all 5 inflection transverse so that apex rolled over to base of pedicel. — (It is clear from these 2 latter cases compared with the first that boiling get into solution some nitrogenous compound, which is got in very small quantity by simmering. —