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animals. 7. A Comparison of these with agricultural 

 sayings, and the physical grounds of these sayings. 8. 

 Marriages and births. 9. Diseases and deaths, 10. Diseases 

 and deaths of domestic animals. 11. Price currents of dif- 

 ferent articles, with the reasons of variations in their price. 

 To these it is the editor's intention to add, 1. Observationg 

 of the electrometer, magnetic needle, diaphanometer, cya- 

 noraeter, photometer, and eudiometer. 2. A comparison 

 of the meteorological aphorisms of Toaldo, Lamarck, and 

 others, with the observations made. 3. Proceedings of the 

 most skilful and active farmers for every month in moun. 

 tainous districts, and in plains.. 4. Bee journal. 5. Re> 

 marks on the daily bill of mortality, and the age and con- 

 dition of the deceased, particularly with regard to sudden 

 deaths, and the character of epidemic or dangerous _ 

 diseases. 6. Observations similar to those made at Turin, 

 carefully registered in the other departments of the 27th 

 military division. 7. A comparison of these with similar 

 observations in the departments of Montblauc and the 

 Maritime Alps, in the 28th military division. 8. Various 

 other observations, calculated to enlarge the boundaries 

 of science. 9. Astronomical observations, as soon as the 

 observatory is furnished with the requisite instruments. 



Mr. dc Clairviile has published a second volume of his Entomology of 

 Entoraologie Helvetique, the first of which appeared in Switzerland. 

 1798. 



The Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Memoirs of 

 Munich for 1808 contain several papers on botany, and ''^^ ^^y^^lj^*^' 

 some on comparative anatomy. Mr. Petzl has found the nich. 

 Bolognian spar in som# marie pits near Amberg. He has 

 also described a calcareous carbonate, lying under a thin 

 coat of vegetable mould aear Erding, in Bavaria, and 

 there called alm^ or alben, which destroys the fertility of 

 the soil for some years, if it be turned up by too deep 

 ploughing. According to him it is a calcareous tufa in a 

 state of efflorescence, and should rank between chalk and 

 bergmehl. We should suspect, from the experiments of 

 Mr. Tennant on our limestones, that it contains magnesia. 

 Some observations on direction and inclination of the 

 strata in the primitive mountains of Norway and Sweden, 

 hy Mr. J. F. L. Haussmaao, tend to confirm the theory of 



Mr. 



