-2B& Academy of Sciences at Peterslurgk. 



mjttees end sub-committees for such part of their business 

 As they shall think proper. 



X. A select committee shall, from time to time, be ap~ 

 pointed by the managers, from among the subscribers to 

 the collection, to arrange the collection, and direct the ope- 

 rations of the office of sssay. 



Subscriptions to the collection and office of assay will be 

 received by William Savage, at the Royal Institution, and by 

 the following bankers ; Messrs. Ransom, Morland, and 

 Co,, Pall Mall; Messrs,, Hoarc, Fleet-street; Messrs. Her- 

 ries, Farquhar, and Co., St. Jameses-street; and Messrs, 

 Pybus, Caljj Grant, and Hale^ Old Bond-street. 



ACADEMY pF SCIENCE? AT PETEESBURGH. 



The following account of the transactions of the Aca^ 

 demy in the course of the year 1803 has been published : 



The papers read in the different sittings were, 1st, On 

 s.iliquose plants, by T. Smelovsky. 2d a A brief account 

 pf the extraordinary cold whicfi took place at Saratof on 

 the 13th of January, by J\ A. Meyer. 3d, A specimen 

 of Phoenician literature in some inscriptiq,ns of Citium., 

 described and decyphered from their analogy to the wedge- 

 iformed characters, by Lichtenstein. 4th, Doubts in re T 

 gard to the system of Dr. Gall, by C. A. Rudolphi. 

 5th, A speech addressed to the Chamberlain Novosilzof on 

 the day he took the President's chair, in the room of the 

 President Fuss. 6th, Account of some general results 

 from the tables of births, ^eaths, anfj marriages, at Pe T 

 tersburgh, by Kraft. 7^h, On the integration of a dif- 

 ferential equation, by Fuss. 8th, On the Io^odromic curve 

 ^escribed on any round body, by F, T. Schubert. Qth, 

 History of the Imperial Academy of Sciences for the years 

 1797—1798, by Fuss, 10th, Observations on |he stuffing 

 ^nd preserving of animals, by Dr. Langsdorff. 1 1th, Nevy 

 observations on stones formed b,} 7 aggregation, by Sever 7 

 guine. 12th, An attempt towards explaining different 

 phaenomena connected with tfye crystallization of salts, by 

 Lowitz. 13th, Ob ognemere, ill orudii hum moshns opre- 

 fieldt vse slepeni shararotschiny Zacharova. 14th, A dt T 

 scription of some rare plants. 1 5th, Memoir on the 

 tables of the population of the imperial establishments for 

 the mines of Catherinenbourg, transmitted by Mr. Her-r 

 mann, by Kraft. 16th, On the viburnum opulus, by 

 Oseretzkovsky. 1 7th, Some astronomical observations 

 made at the Observatory of Petersburgh, by Inschodzof. 



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