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Lven. RA. 2^ 24.' Decl. 0^ 37'— N. 



S. 



The two laft obfervations were made by Dr. Olbers, at 

 Bremen. I received this intelligence yefterday, but at prefent 

 this fmall planet (there are now three) is not d.ilboverable, on 

 account of the moon-fliine. 



Extract of a Letter from Mr. G. B, Grenough. 

 * ♦ * * There is an overfight in the hafty account I fent Correftlon of a 

 you of the Abbe Melograni's blow-pipe. No provifion is ^o[f^['V^ f " 

 made for admitting the external air. This may be done by grani's blow- 

 feveral means. It may be admitted through that part of the P'P^' 

 axis which is oppofite the nozel; but as this would require 

 forae contrivance which would render it defe^live in fimpli- 

 city, I fliould prefer the addition of a fmall val\fe opening in- 

 wards at that part of each veffel which is immediately oppo- 

 fite the neck that joins them. Whether this method was ufed 

 in the adual inftrument I cannot, at this diflance of time, re- 

 collect. 



Organic Remains of a former IVoi'ld. An Examination of the 

 Mineralized Remains of the Vegetables and Animals of the An- 

 tediluvian World, generally termed extraneous Fqfds. Bj/ 

 James Parkinson, Hoxton, Vol. I, containing the Vege- 

 table Kingdom, ^to, pp. 4^71. with 10 Plates {£2 2 0) 

 Robfon, Sfc. 



AS it would be impradicable in the general announcement Parklnfon's or- 

 of a work of the magnitude and importance of the prefent to ^^"^"^ remains, 

 give the reader any well filled outline of the plan, I muft con- 

 fine myfelf to ftate in few words, that the defcription and elu- 

 cidation of organic foffil bodies, though in many points of 

 view of the higheft intereft, has not yet conftituted the fub- 

 je6l of a general treatife; notwithftanding the various confi- 

 derations refpedling the local, the individual, and the chemi- 

 cal hiftory of thefe wonderful bodies have occupied the re- 

 fearches of many able philofophers in detached memoirs; and 

 that the compofition of fuch an hiftory demands a great ex- 

 ertion of labour, in confulting and digefting what has been 



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