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Replies to Minor Queries.
_Saw-dust Recipe_ (Vol. ix., p. 148.).--See Herschel's _Discourse on the
Study of Natural Philosophy_, published in Lardner's _Cyclopaedia_, p. 64.,
where he says:
"That sawdust itself is susceptible of conversion into a substance
bearing no remote analogy to bread; and though certainly less palatable
than that of flour, yet no way disagreeable, and both wholesome and
digestible, as well as highly nutritive."
To which passage the following note is appended:
"See Dr. Prout's account of the experiments of Professor Autenrieth of
Tubingen, _Phil. Trans._, 1827, p. 331. This discovery, which renders
famine next to _impossible_, deserves a higher degree of celebrity than
it has obtained."