SCIENTIFIC NEWS. O^^ 



the dial-plate, is graduated to 80° of heat and 40° of cold; 

 aud the temperature is pointed out by a hand fiom the cen- 

 tre. 



Mr. Creve of Wisbaden has discovered a method of reco- Sourwine 

 vering wine that has turned sour. For this purpose he em- sweetened by 

 ploys powdered charcoal. The inhabitants of the banks of 

 the Rhine have bestowed on him a medal, as a reward for 

 this discovery. 



Mr. Ljung, a Swedish naturalist, has discovered a new Diminutive 



species of mouse, which he has named screx canicu/atus. It quadruped. 



is the smallest animal known of the mammiferous class, 



weighing only about half a drachm. 



Mr. Lacepede has lately given a minute description of an XT , 



r ■•"'■■*, i, ,• New quadra- 



oviparous quadruped, not hitherto noticed by any naturalist, ped. 



but preserved in the Museum of Natural History. He 

 classes it in the genus proteus, or that of salamander, distin- 

 guishing it by the name of tetradactylus from the number of 

 its toes. 



A German chemist is said to have discovered another new __ . : 



' i • i i • , New metal, 



metal among the grams of platina, to which he gives the 



name of vestium. 



Counsellor Koehler, of Moscow, is busily employed in 

 cleaning the old coins he is continually receiving from the 

 Crimea. He is publishing a collection of more than COO 

 kings or cities, all belonging to Grecian colonies, or king- 

 doms, that extended along the northern and western coasts 

 of the Black Sea. 



The University of Leipsic has resolved, that the stars be- 

 longing to the belt and sword of Orion, as well as the inter- i at i on> 

 mediate stars, which have yet received no particular name, 

 shall in future be called the Stars of Napoleon, or the Con- 

 stellation Napoleon. 



A Voyage of Discovery to the Countries of the South, by ^ f ,. 



Order of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon, in the sloops covery. 

 Geographe and Naturaliste, and schooner Casuarina, dur- 

 ing the \ ears 1800 — 1804, compiled by M. F. Peron, Natu- 

 ralist to the Expedition, is published conformably to a De- ' 

 cree ol the Emperor, in 2 vols. 4to, with 41 plates, 28 of 

 them coloured, and 3 large maps, in this work aredescribed 

 the least known parts of van Diemen'i Laud, the large strait 



that 





