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Literary and Philofophkal InteUtgence. 



[Jan. I, 



fportfrnan in parficular it cannot iiy\ to 

 prove highly gratifying;, as we have no 

 account whatever of the ftate of fporting 

 in that country. Another edition of the 

 work will appear at the fame time in roy- 

 al quarto, with the platef uncoloured. 



A new edition of White's Life of 

 Lord Nelfon will he ready for delivery in 

 the firft days of January. It will contain 

 many mateiial improvemen's, being illuf- 

 trated by a great r.umberof new articles, 

 confining efpecially of anecdotes of con- 

 temporary naval officers who have dillin- 

 guifhed themfcives in the fervice of tlieir 

 cnuntry in the company of the immortal 

 Nelfon. 



Mr. TuRNEUJ-L will fpeedily publith 

 a complete and highly ufet'ul profeflional 

 work, under the title of The Navy Sur- 

 geon, in which the duties of that office in 

 «very fituation arid climate will be/ulJy 

 explained. 



Mif» Edgeworth will pulilKh early 

 in the prefent month a new work, in two 

 voHimes, entitled Leonora. 



Rev. Israel Worsley, who has 

 lately efcaped from France, is about to 

 publifh in one volume, fmall oibvo, an 

 Account of the State of France and in 

 Government during the laft Three Years, 

 particularly as it has Relation to the Bel- 

 gic Provinces and the Treatment of the 

 Englifti. 



Mr, Edmund Turner's Hiftory of 

 Grantham will appear in the couri'e of the 

 prefent month. 



Dr. Reid's Spring Courfe of Leflures 

 on the Theory and Praflice of Medicine 

 vein commence on the 25th of January. 

 Particulars may be learned by applying 

 at Dr. Reid's houfe, Grenville-ftreet, 

 Brunfwick-fquare; or, at the Fin{bury 

 Difpenfery, St. John's-fquare, Clerken- 

 weli. 



On Monday, January 15, the Courfe of 

 Leflures on the Principles and Prai51ice of 

 Surgery, will be recommenced by Mr. 

 John Pearson, Senior Surgeon of the 

 Lock-Hofpital, and Afylum, and of tlie 

 Public Diipenfary. 



Mr. Macartney is about to deliver 

 a Gourfe of Leflures at the Medical 

 Theatre, St, Bartholomew's Hofpita), on 

 Compaiative Anatomy and the Laws of 

 Organic Exiftence. 



The Spring Courfe of Lectures on ARa. 

 tomy, Phyfiology, and Surgery, will be 

 commenced on Monday, the 20th January, 

 St two o'clock in the afternoon, by Mr. 

 Brookes, at his Theatre i.i Blenheinn- 

 ftreet. 



Dr. Clarke's Leflures on Midwifery, 

 and the Difeafes of Women and ChiU 

 dren, will in future be read only at the 

 houfe of Mr. Clarke, No. 10, Upper 

 John-ftreet, Golden-fquare. A Courfe 

 will begin on Thurlday, January 23, and 

 the lectures will be continued every day 

 for the convenience of ftudents attending 

 the hofpitals. 



Mr. John Taunton, Surgeon to the 

 City and Finfbury Dilpenfnries, &c., will 

 commence his Spring Courfe of Leflures 

 on Anatomy, Phyfiology, and Surgery, 

 on the iSih of January, at his Theatre iti 

 Grenville-ftreet. 



The Croonian Lecture for the prefent 

 feafon has been read at two of the meet- 

 ings of the Royal Society by Mr. Car- 

 lisle. The fubjeft was, " The 

 Power and particular Structure of the 

 Mufcles of Filhes." After fcveral mi- 

 nute ph'. fiological explanations of the 

 nature and peculiar ftrufture of chemufclet 

 of fi(hei>, and their invariable infertion in 

 flcfliy inftead of tendinous matter, he pro- 

 ceeded to derail his experiments on their 

 power and particular ufe, in enabling the 

 animal to move with rapidity through a 

 fluid fo denfe as water. He afcertained 

 that the mufcles of the fides are folely 

 thofe by means of which the fifli ad- 

 vances : that the peftoral and abdominal 

 fins ferve only to raife or lower, and ba- 

 lance it in the water. 



Dt. Wo L LAST ON, fecretary of the 

 Royal Society, has read the Bakerian Lec- 

 ture, "On the Force of PercuflTion." 



On the 22d of Oflober, at three o'clock 

 in the morning, Mr. Huth, of Frank- 

 fort on the Oder, difcovered a comet in 

 the hindmoft foot of the Great-Bear, 

 weftly betwixt the ftars t and ^. It was 

 fcarcely vifible to the naked eye, but 

 might be feen with a common telefcope. 

 In lize and brightnefs it refeniblts the 

 great nebulous fpot in Andromeda, ex- 

 cept that it was almoft circular. At four 

 o'clock its right-afcenfion was about 

 ]66'' 30', its declination about 30" 4.0' ; 

 and about five o'clock the former 166° 

 32', and the latter 33° 32' : confequently 

 its courfe is foutherly, and fomewhat wel- 

 terly; and it feems to proceed towards the 

 region of Denebola. When magnified 

 3 50 times, it did not fliewany nuckys.— 

 The fame comet was difcnveied by Pro- 

 feffor Bode at the Berlin Obfervatory, ore 

 the a3d Oftr.ber, between two and three 

 o'clock in the morning, wefterly at Qjjf 

 the Great. Bear, right-afcenfion 174° 25'. 

 and 27" 40' N. declination. 



M. VlLLIERS, 



