THE EARLIEST CASE OF COLD STORAGE. [To THE EDITOR OF
THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In Macaulay's Essay on " Lord Bacon " he points out that in 1626 the subject of his memoir tried the experiment of stuffing a fowl with snow to prevent it from putrefying, and, in carrying out the work, caught cold, from which he died. Macaulay adds, "In the last letter that he ever wrote with fingers which, as be said, could not steadily hold a pen, he did not omit to mention that the experiment of the snow had succeeded excellently well." If, however, we turn to nature there are instances in Siberia of mammoths preserved
in ice so that their flesh is still eatable from a period probably coeval with the first appearance of man on this globe. If the Romans brought to their banquets the dainties of all the known world, had they not some knowledge of cold storage P-
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