ACCLIMATIZATION SOCIETY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1518, 6 October 1868, Page 6

ACCLIMATIZATION SOCIETY.

A meetikg of the Acclimatization Society was held yeiterday morning. Captain Hutton in the chair.

The Secbetaby announced that certain clauses in the Game Aot of an obnoxious character had been expunged, a circumstance which might be mainly attributable to the Auckland Society's representations. The Secretary also stated that on account of the obnoxious clauses in the Game Act many persons had been prevented from becoming subscribers to the society, and that now that th» clauses were amended, many more subscriptions might be expected. The secretary Btatedthat two scrub turkeys and an emu had arrived, per s.s. Ahuriri, the gift of his Excellency Sir George Bowen, and it was determined that the turkeys should be set at liberty in ths Northern part of the province where they would hare an opportunity of breeding. A sum not exceeding five pounds was voted for the purpose of importing fro spawn from Sydney. The Solomon Xaland emus to beeent to the Zoological Society'a Gardens in Ijondon in exchange for more useful animals. The Secretary was requested to communicate with Oapt. V. TTall, with a view to asking that gentlemaa to procure some tortoise for the Society, from Panama. The meeting also decided that pheasants should be forwarded to Melbourne in exchange for hares. The Secretary announced that a subscription of £10 had been received from Dr. Campbell.

SlfEEPl.s'a.—The following important observations on " slospiug"' are from Hall's Journal of Health :— It is better to go to sleep on the right side, for then the stomach is very much in the position of a bottlo turned upside down, and the contents of it are aided in passing out by gravitation. If one goes to sleep on the left side the operation of emptying the stomach of its contents is more like drawing water from a well. After going to sleep, let the body take its own position. If you sleep on your back, especially soon after a hearty meal, the weight of the digestive organs and that of the focd, resting on the great rein of the body, near the baokbone, compresses it, and arrests the flow of the blood more or less. If the arrest is partial the sleep is disturbed, and there are unpleasant dreams. If the meal has been recent and hearty the arrest is more decided, and the various sensations, such as falling over a precipice, or the pursuit of a wild beast, or other impending danger, and the desperate effort to get rid of it, arouses us, and sends on the stagnating blood, and we wake in a fright or trembling, or in perspiration, or feeling exhaustion, according to the degree of stagnation, and the length andstrength of the efforts made to escapethe danger. But, when we are unable to escape the danger —when we do fall over the precipice, when fh» tumbling building crushes us—what then? That is death ! That is the death of those of whom is said wh6n found lifeless in the morning—'That they were as well as ever they were the day beforeand often, it is added, ' and ate heartier than common!' Thia last, as a frequent cause of death to those who have gone.to bed to wake no more, we give merely as a private opinion. The possibility of its truth is enough to deter any rational man from a late and hearty meal. This we do know with certainty, that waking up in the night with painful diarrhcßa, or cholera, or bilious cholic, ending in death in a very short time, is probably traceable to a late large meal. The truly wise will take the safe side. For persons to cat three times a day, it is amply sufficient to make the last meal of cold bread and butter, and a cup of some warm drink, one can Etarve on it » while a perseverance in the habit soon begets a vigorous appetite for breakfast, so premising of a day of comfort.

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