Suspension of Animal Life. - At the last meeting of the Royal Institution, Dr. Faraday delivered a lecture, in which he alluded to the recent discoveries of Mr. Crosse, with respect to the formation or revivication of insects in flint, which, although doubted by many, he knew to be true, inasmuch as, by a continuous voltaic stream from silicia of potass, he himself produced living animalculae.
He also exhibited some insects obtained from hard polished stone, and which were now, like those of Mr. Crosse, enjoying life after a transition of many thousand years.
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