•.jjC Scientific Ni'ws.-—Accautits of Booh, 



The Jtxthfittwg, on thefirfl complementary d/iy. Citizen Beauchamp prefented an annuary, 

 ready for immediate printing, and alfo feveral aftrononiical obfervatious. Citizen Berthollct 

 read a letter from Citizen Laplace, announcing a correftion in the metre. He alfo gave an 

 account of the manufa6lure of indigo, and pointed out confiderable improvements. Citizen 

 Fourier communicated a projeft of a wind-mill, to water lands. 



Sixth fitting, on the 6th Vendemaire, year VII. Citizen Pouflielque prefented a (ketch of a 

 new method of analytically demonftrating geometrical theorems, by Corancez the younger. 

 Citizen Norry read a memoir on Pompey's pillar. Savigny defcribed a new fpecies of 

 nymphxa. A commiffion was charged with the eftablilhment of a fchool of defign, among 

 whom were Redoute and Norry. Citizen Coftaz read a memoir on the colours of the fea, 

 and Citizen Parceval another tranflatlon from Taflb. 



Eighth fitting, Vendemaire, year VII. Fifty mummies of birds, fent to the Inftitute, were 

 <ielivered for examination to a commifRon, compofed of Buonaparte, GeofFroy, Dolomieu, 

 and fome others. Porte, a native of France, and inhabitant of Cairo, who is employed on 

 Indigo, prefented famples to the Inftitute. Citizen Larrey read a memoir on the opthalmia. 

 Citizen Beauchamp read another on his voyage to Trebifond. He indicates the longitude of 

 Ifpahan, and obferves, that the longitude of Trebifond is 37° 18' 5" from Paris, and not 43°, 

 «s Bonne affirms ; which dedufts more than eighty leagues from the Black Sea. Citizen 

 Delifle read a memoir on the palm-tree, which bears the fruit called <lomm. It is the caffio- 

 phora of Theophraftus. Citizen Dolomieu read a memoir on the ftudy of ancient and mo- 

 <lern geography. He fixes the pofition of the ancient Alexandria between two hills of cal- 

 careous fand-ftone, and explained the fubfequent changes. He thinks the fea muft have rifen a 

 foot fmce the time of the Ptolemies. Citizen Norry made a report concerning the fchool of 

 defign ; and Citizen Parceval read a tranflation from Taflb. 



Since the commencement of the Vllth year, a literary journal has appeared, under the 

 title of Decade Egyptienne, fournal litteraire et d'Ecenomie politique. The profpedtus was 

 figned Tallien, and is compofed of thirty-eight pages. The Journal is to appear every de- 

 cade, each number containing two and a half or three flieets, in oftavo. The price per num- 

 ber is to be I franc French money, or i o francs per 1 2 numbers. Subfcriptions are taken 

 by Citizen Marc-Aurell, printer to the army, quartier des Fran5ois, at Cairo. The firft 

 number appeared the 10 Vendermaire,. year VII. v 



An Accotmt of the Operations canied on for accomplifhing a Trigonometrical Survey of 

 England and Wales, from the Commencement in 1784, to the End of the Year 1796. Be- 

 gun under the Dire£lion of the Royal Society, and continued by Order of the Honour- 

 able Board of Ordnance. Firft publiftied in, and now received from, the Philofophical 

 Tranfaftions. By Captain William Mudge, F.R.S. and Mr. Ifaac Dalby, Vol. I. Illuf- 

 trated with 22 Copper-plates. London, printed by Bulmer, and Co. for Faden, Cha- 

 ring-Crofs, 1799 ; 437 pages. Price il. 8s. boards. 

 ALL Europe is acquainted with more or lefs of the particulars of this furvey, which is a 



work of the utmoft utility, and an honour to our government, and the parties to whom the 



execution 



