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4. Glass. — no or little secretion

5 cabbage seed — secretion acid, poured from above

(Leaf of Saxifrage — caused secretion.)

(Germination of 5/6 cabbage seed — seedlings injured)

(8 A. juice Raw meat 8° 13' — 11° 30' almost all absorbed.) (ie. after 3° 17')

p. 11 — Chain of fibrin of meat secretion very acid ran down to base of leaf (former case of spoon at end full of secretion)

fibrin put on, on July 1— almost dry & much digested July 8th

13 Large bits of meat — wonderfully digested & disintegrated on July 9th. put on on July 3d Surface concave (& sometimes where slice has lain)

See abstract for important details

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(a) landed, 194 in number removed in June 1856, in to to Norfolk Isld. They then consisted of sixty 60 married persons & 134 children; making a total of 194. Here thy likewise have increased so rapidly that, subtracting 16 emigrated of them returned to Pitcairn Isld in 1859, they numbered in Jan. 1868 300 souls, males & females being exactly equal    What a contrast does this case present with that of the Tasmanians: here 194 souls the Norfolk islanders increased in only twelve & a half years from 194 to 300; whereas the Tasmanians decreased during fifteen years from 120 to 46, of which latter number numbers only ten were children.* (* These details are taken from "The Mutineers of the Bounty by Lady Belcher  1870; & from "Pitcairn Island," ordered to be oriented by the House of Commons, May 29th 1863" ") The following statement abut the Sandwich Islands is from the Honolulu Gazette)

So again in the Sandwich Islands, in the interval between the census of 1866 & 1872 the full-blood natives decreased 8081, whilst the half-castes increased 847; but I do not know whether the latter number includes the offspring from the half-castes, or only the half-castes of the first generation.