Bunge's Improved Analytical Balance. (Chenz. Zed., 1896, xx., 32G.)-In the ordinary process of weighing much time is wasted, and considerable harm is done to the agate bearings by the oscillations of the beam during the earlier attempts at attaining a balance. This improvement consists in the addition of a separate arrangement under the left-hand (object) pan, by means of which the weight of the substance is read directly to the nearest gramme on a scale attached to any convenient spot in the

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... se. This pan is carried by a gilt steel stirrup made so as to expand in length according to the weight of the object. Underneath it is an agate point fastened to the arresting gear of the pan, which depresses to a greater or less extent an adjustable agate cup fixed to the shorter end of the lever-balance, the opposite extremity of which carries the pointer travelling over the scale. In the case of balances that are always swinging, enough space is left to permit of this inovement ; but in the other variety the addition is thrown in and out of gear by an eccentric. The improvement is patented in Germany.