£3(5 SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



that separates it from New Holland', the discovery ©f the 

 Great Land of Napoleon, the Great Archipelago of Bona- 

 parte, &c. 



•mfcxto Buf- p r of. Sue has published an Analytical and Systematic In- 

 dex toSounini's new edition of BufTon, with an index to the 

 names of authors. The index occupies 3 vols. 8vo., and 

 was highly necessary to a work in 124 vols. 



ImWMera. }\i r . Demours published an Index to the Memoirs of the 



*e Trench. v . , 



jutulemy. r rench Academy of Sciences in 9 vols. 4to, each volume 



including ten years of the Memoirs. Mr. Cotte is now 



employed on a tenth volume, which will make the index 



complete from the commencement to the year 1790, with 



which these Memoirs finished. 



t>.rillary pen. £ jyr r . Baradelle has constructed a pen, which he terms 



capillary, capable of tracing 144 lines in the space of a- 



French inch. 



Dublin Society. 



Dublin So- AT a meeting of this Society, at their house in Hawkins. 



<afty " Street, on the Uth of May, various resolutions were passed. 



American fir . It having been suggested to the Society, that the tim- 

 •d'wUh'tkaT *' er i lll P ort€( l * voin ^ olt h America differs very materially in 

 «K' Europe. quality and strength from the timber, which has for many 

 ycars- past been used in this kingdom : it was resolved, 



That a committe be appointed to inquire into the truth of 

 the above suggestion; and to. report to the Society on the 

 comparative strength of Norway and Memel timber, with 

 that of the timber of North America, in which the com- 

 lniUee will distinguish the particular states of North Ame- 

 rica, whence the timber may have been imported, the com- 

 parative qualities of which with those of Memel and Nor- 

 way shall be reported upon. 



Mr. J. L. Poster prcseuted the following report from the 

 committee of chemistry: 

 Orfalojcuef of The cqmmittee of chemistry and mineralogy, to whom it 

 Irish mineral*. wag reIe rred to report, upon Mr. Higgins's manuscript cata- 

 logues of lush minerals, have proceeded to take the same 

 into consideration, and are decidedly of opinion, that it will 



not 



