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Lileniry lunl Philotofhicul Inlelligence. 



[May!, 



^9pi^,.^ i^,^9qtn!uit<co of suipeiior offi- 

 ^.^repfi^Jjfi mmiue, wUli tlie principal 

 engineer of maritime! hiVwurs, have 

 made a report, to the Miuister of Inte- 

 ,rior, wlio has referreil the exiiinination 

 ©f the project to a committee of the 

 (Council of state. It is meant to be ap- 

 plicable. to coRUoercial relations in ge- 

 l^ijeral- > 



,; Some years ago, M. An Ir^ Michaux, 

 author of a beautiful American Flora, 

 'the result of his travels in that conti- 

 ijeut (by order of the French Govern- 

 ment), brouiiht over a quantity of 

 .grains from the United States, includ- 

 ing ficveral species of walnut-trees and 

 paks, among wliich were the (juerci- 

 tron, quercus tinctoria. These, with 

 [the consent of the inteudant of Uie 

 fjrown domains, he sowed in parts of 

 tlie Bois dc Jioidogiie, devastated in 

 1815, by the foreign troops. In Feb. 

 1818, about four acres AAcre sown, near 

 iWie Gate D'Auteuil, to the right of the 

 Cliemin de Boulogne. In October fol- 

 lowing, the young ])lanfs appeared, 

 find many thousand ket are covered 

 jvith the quercitron. It appears, from 

 experiments, that the colouring prin- 

 ciple (for dyeing) inherent to the quer- 

 citron, is not impaired by change of 

 climate. The tree rises to the height 

 of 80 feet ; the timber is excellent for 

 building, and the bark is applicable 

 to the purposes of tanning as well as 

 jlyeing. 



The Frencli proteslauts have long 

 complained of having no seminary of 

 J'eliglous instruction for their children, 

 in the public establishments. The 

 JUyceum i)f Strasbourg, where a pro- 

 testant almoner lias presided, from its 

 Iflundation, was their only resource. 

 jBy direction from the Minister of In- 

 ferior, the Commission of Public In- 

 ^t^ruction are preparing an oratory for 

 piptestant pupils, iu the College of 

 Louis le Grand. A solemn inaugura- 

 tioii or consecration of the local, by 

 the protestaut pastor, M. Marron, has 

 already been performed. 



GERMANY. 



Count G. Sternberg, an enlightened 

 botanist, and proprietor of a consider- 

 able coal-mine iu Bohemia, has been, 

 (iuriug fifteen years, making scientific 

 observations on tlu' strata of pit-coal. 

 He has, in consequence, acquired a va- 

 luable collection of fossile trees, plants, 

 and grains, the forms of which are in 

 good preservation. This gentleman is 

 1?<»Y. publishing, at Leipsick, the result 



of l»is observiitions, jsudcr the title of 

 an '^ Essay towards a Ijotauical and 

 <)!e(dnc!cal Floj-a i of ihe Primitire 

 AVorld." The first Number contains 

 thirteen plates, engraved by Sturm, of 

 Nuremburg, and accurately coloured. 

 The plants represented bear no reaem- 

 blanco to any that arc now known. ' 



A commentary, or scn'ics of expla- 

 natory notes on Homer, has lately ap- 

 peared at Hanover, in six volumes. 

 The plan of tliis work was laid by the 

 late M. Kiipptvu ; but he had only com- 

 pleted five volumes, wliich have fre- 

 tjuently been repriiit«?d. Professor 

 Krause, of Gottingeu, has added a sixth 

 volume, which completers the under- 

 taking. Tile new edition has bo«'n re- 

 vised and augmented, by the Profes- 

 sors Ileiurich of Born aud Rubkopf of 

 Hanover. 



Henceforth the wren is no longer ia 

 be considered as the smallest of Euro- 

 pean birds. In Geriiiany, about four 

 leagues from Erfurt, certain naturalists 

 have observed, for some time past, in 

 a forest of fir-trees, a small bird pretty 

 much resembling the hutnminj?*biild. 

 The country people know it fay tiie 

 name of Goldhancheu, literally 'sig*ni- 

 fying the little golden bird. Its form 

 is elegant, and the colours are brilliant 

 and variegated. It is very diflicuU to 

 catch it alive, as the slightest pressure 

 of the net will bereave it of life. '!< 



M. Tappe, a German architc<;t of 

 Soest, has published a disquisition on 

 the battle of Arminius, wherein he 

 fixes the different positions held by the 

 Roman legions, during the three days 

 of that fatal action wherein they "were 

 slaughtered, with their chief Varus. 

 The author makes it plain, that Elsen, 

 about a league from Paderbom, is the 

 ancient Aliso; and, in confirmHtioti, 

 he has discovered a Roman castellum, 

 which appears to have been that 

 wherein Segestus maintained a siege 

 against Arminius, when Germaniciis 

 came to his relief. Dion Cassius, Sue- 

 tonius, and Velleius Paterculus, have 

 been consulted ; but, in treating of the 

 tumuli that reach from Elsen to Uflfelu, 

 he makes them tombs of the Germans 

 that fell in the action. 



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M. Taxidei, professor of pharmac^ih 

 the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuora, 

 Florence, has discovered that the glu- 

 ten of wlieat, dissolved in water, with 

 soap, is an antidote for the terrible 

 etfecls produced by corrosive subli- 

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