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is to be cnlled tlie Marine Mufenm. In 

 this inltitution lefTons in all the fciences 

 ntceffiry to be known by a lea-officer will 

 be J^iven. It will publifh a I'ort of joar- 

 ral upon every (ubjedl that conceins the 

 marine. There will be attached to the 

 Muftum a library and a coileflion of na- 

 tural hiiioiy, which will be conftantly 

 r.pen to the Ihidgnts. The eftabliliiment 

 is to be under the direction of the iVlinif- 

 ttr ot the Maiirie, aid the membeis are 

 to wear an uniform like that of the ma- 

 rines. 



General Ai.exanbkr Palitzyn has 

 tranflaied into she RulTian language the 

 Voyage of Lord Macartney to China, 

 winch will be accompanied with vciy fine 

 plates. 



1 heUi'.iverfity of LandfluU has offeied 

 the dtgrce ff doftor of philofophy to any 

 one of its pupils who (hould point out in 

 the clenreft manner, in the fragments Ihll 

 extant concerning the niyftic fefts of anti- 

 quitv, fuch as the; New Flaloniiis, the 

 Pyihagoi tans, the Gnoftics, theOrigen- 

 ilts, and in the more modtin works of 

 the Scholaflics, the TheoCophifts, the Ca- 

 baiitts, ard the fchool of Jacob Bolim, the 

 matcrids of whxh PiofcfTor Schelling 

 has compofed liis piiiiofo(-hy. 



The celebrated aeronaut Robertson 

 bas announced h's intention ot conftruflirg 

 a balloon i 36 feet in diameter, ar.d capable 

 of raiiing the weight cf 740 quintals' 

 (^bout 33 tens). Fifty peilbns will be 

 able to enibaik in it with comfort, and 

 will find in it all the conveniencits of ani- 

 mal and focial life, and pioviiions for Se- 

 veral months. The balloon may travel at 

 all elevations and in all temperatiuts, ard 

 may be employed to make phyfical and 

 aftronomicrU exptiiments in all parts of 

 the world. Geog;aphy will derive from 

 it great advantages, hecaufe theacronaus 

 vi\\\ not be checked either by mountains 

 or by foiefts. Perhaps with the aflilU 

 ar.cecf the trade-winds it may even make 

 the circuit of the g'obe between the tro. 

 pics. The globe tor this apparatus will 

 be msde f)t tafieta raannfaclured en pur- 

 poCe at Lyons, and of a boat (f deal, 

 weighing 20,000 pounds. It will be fur. 

 niflu'd with cordage of fi'k and provifions, 

 and will have its kitchen, two workftiops, 

 a wafli-h )ufe, an obfeivatory, a chapel, an 

 academical (aloon, a card-room, and a 

 concert- room. It will Ijkewifc cany a 

 fmallcr balloon and a parachute in cafe of 

 acciilcnt. The honour of conflrui5llng 

 fii'-h a balloon, which according to the iii- 

 penious projedkrwill not ccft more than a 

 flii^ttf the line, otight, h« l:.)s, t« belong 



to all the learned fociet'es of Europe. — i 

 He therefore invites them to con'r bute to 

 theexpence, and enfurcS fo each fubfcrib- 

 iiis; ac ^dciny the right of Tur;iifhing tv(ra 

 aeronauts far this fcientific expedition. 



His Majelty the King of Pp.irssiA 

 hai given orders, that as the mineral hi- 

 migutions of GuYTON Morveau are 

 pioved t'l be the fafslt preventative 

 againft the yellow- fever, they fliall be 

 adopted 'n all the Pruffian harbours, and 

 in all veilels under quarantine, or cming 

 from fufpedled places. 



A German gentleman (ravelling 

 through different places in Spain. at the 

 time vi-hen the yellow-fever made its ra- 

 vages, obferved, that of all kinds of bird.s, 

 the I'^iairows only had fome notion of the 

 dangerous influence of this difeafe, lb far 

 that they left tlie houfes when the infec- 

 tion h«d taken place, and by no allure- 

 ment were to be induced to return, while 

 other birds fell a victim cf their ignorance. 

 The inhabitants therefore confidered the 

 continuance of the fparrows in a dvelling- 

 houle as a certaio proof of its being fiea 

 frorn the contagion. 



The very valuable library of the late 

 Proftn'r BaLDINGer at the Un'verfity 

 of Marpurg is now offered for lale, either 

 public or priva'.e, by his heirs. It would 

 certainly be a g;e?.t lofs if fuch a tieai'ure 

 cf rare works fliould be fca:tcied by pub- 

 lic faler The library conliffs of more 

 than 16.000 volumes. Among others 

 there are nearly one hundred and thirty 

 editions of the works cf Hippcraies ; 

 and alio all the different editions of the 

 medical clafTics, and o'herrare works, be- 

 lides 13,000 academical diflcrtations. 



By a ten yearsi comparilon of the bills 

 of mortality cf Vienna, the number of 

 deaths upon an average amounted to 

 i+Ooo, and among thefe 835 children 

 fell a vi6liiTi to the naiuiai fmall-pox 

 every year. But fince the in'toJuflion of 

 the CQiw-pox, no more th.m 161 children 

 died of tlie fmall-pox in 1801 ; in tlie year 

 i8oa only 60 ; in the year 1805 but 37 ; 

 and in the year 180.1- only two children, 

 and of thefe one belonged to ioreigij tra- 

 velling parents. 



Dr. KoPP lias madi^inteiefting inqui- 

 ries on the fpontaneous comhulf ion oi the 

 huiTian body. It was fomieily an almolt 

 general opnicm that the comhullion only 

 took place in diunkaids, and it was be- 

 lieved that their whole frame was impreg- 

 nated with the fpirituous li(;uor. But on 

 comparing the different calrs which Dr. 

 Kopp has had an opjorttinity to ccllef^, 

 it aj>pears that the cuinbuflicn chiefly 

 K k z take 



