Albany Buildings. Southport.--An engraving.

VI. PHYSIOLOGY, HYGIENE, ETC.--The Sizes of Blood Corpuscles
in Mammals and Birds.--A table.

The Absorption of Petroleum Ointment and Lard by the Skin.

VII. MISCELLANEOUS.--The Missing German Corvette Augusta.--With
engraving.

The Tails of Comets.--The effect by a disturbance of solar
waves, and not by special matter.

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ROMAN REMAINS AT LEICESTER, ENGLAND.


The Roman tessellated pavement in Jewry Wall Street, Leicester,
discovered in the year 1832, is well known to archaeologists; it has
also been known as difficult of access, and hardly to be seen in a dark
cellar, and, in fact, it has not been seen or visited, except by very
few persons. Some time ago the Town Council resolved to purchase the
house and premises, with the object of preserving the pavement _in
situ_, and of giving additional light and better access to it, and, this
purchase having been completed in the beginning of the present year, the
work of improvement began. It was now seen that the pavement was