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fiance which it contains, may noc the remaining fibrous part 

 be the better prepared to withftand the power of putrefaction ? 

 Accurate experiments tending to illuftrate this enquiry might 

 be both amuiing and inftructive. 



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Memoirs of the Literary and Philofophical Society of Manckejler, 

 Vol. V. Part 11. 06tavo, 700 Pages, with 9 Plates. Cadeli 

 and Davies, London, 1802. 



A HIS publication of the refpectable Society of Manchefter 

 is no Jets interefting than the former volumes of which the fcien- 

 tific world well knows the value ; it contains the following me- 

 moirs : — I. On tragedy, and the intereft in tragical reprefenta- 

 tions: An Effay. By the Rev. George Walker, F. R. S. 

 and Profeflbr of Theology in the new College, Manchefter. — 



2. Experiments and obfervations to determine whether the 

 quantity of rain and dew is equal to the quantity of water car- 

 ried off by the rivers and railed by evaporation ; with an in- 

 quiry into the origin of fprings. By Mr. John Dalton. — 



3. Experiments and obfervations on the power of fluids to 

 conduct heat; with reference to Count Rumford's feventh 

 effay on the fame fubject. By Mr. John Dalton. — 4. Experi- 

 ments on the velocity of air Hilling out of a veffel in different 

 circumftances; with the defcription of an inftrument to mea- 

 fure the force of the blaft in bellows, &c. By Mr. Banks, 

 Lecturer in Natural Fhilofophy. Communicated by Mr. 

 Dalton.- — 5. Eflay on the beautiful in the human form ; and 

 enquiry whether the Grecian ftatues prefent the moft perfect 

 beauty of form that we at prefent have any acquaintance with. 

 Communicated to the Society from a Correfpondent, through 

 the Rev. George Walker. — 6. A defence of learning and the 

 arts, againft fome charges of Roufleau : In two effays. By 

 the Rev. George Walker, F. R. S. — 7. Obfervations on the 

 nervous fyftems of different animals ; on original defects in the 

 nervous fyftem of the human fpecies, and their influence on 

 fenfation and voluntary motion. By John Hill, M. D. — 

 8. Experiments and obfervations on the heat and cold pro- 

 duced by the mechanical condenfation and rarefaction of air. 



