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Litcraiy and Philofophical IntcUige)2ce. [Aug. I , 



A Catalogue of the particulars of the 

 jnanul'cripls, collations, and books with 

 nianulcript jiotes, <»1' tlie late James 

 Philip D'Ohville, Kfq., purchalcd by 

 the L'uivertky of Oxford in 1805 loV 

 10251., will ihortly be printed. 



Mr. AbTi.f.Y Cooper nil! in a few 

 weeks publifli t!ie concluding part of his 

 great work on llornia. 



Mr. Home has funnlhcd to the Royal 

 Society an mtcrcfiins; papei' on the com- 

 parative anatomy and }.liyfioloj:y of the 

 camel, particularly on its lioinachs and 

 walcr-bags, in which it can retain a 

 quantity of Mater fulhcient to fupport it- 

 fclf for feveral weeks. 



In the Antiquarian Society an account 

 has been read of the fj)lendid equipage 

 and fumptuai-y retinue of the Karl of 

 IMorthumbcrland, at his eiiibarkuti>>n for 

 France in the reign of Henry \ III. — 

 The gofpel of St. John, in Liitin, but 

 written on parchment in Roman ciiarac- 

 ters mixed witli Saxon, was exhibited to 

 the fociety by the Rev. Mr. Mii.nek. 

 This volume is Avid to be 1,200 years old. 



Mr. Davy has dilcovered that the 

 acid, which exifts in minute quantities in 

 the wavehite (the new folVd from Barn- 

 fiable), is the fluoric acid, in fuch a pe- 

 cuh:ur (late of combination as not K) be 

 rendered fenfible by fulphuric arid. 



A Gentleman coimcCied with the ma- 

 nufactures of Sbetneld, has given the 

 following defcription of the changes which 

 take place in the vai'iuus procclVes of 

 hardeuing, tempering, hanmiering, bur- 

 nifhing, &c. " I took," fays he, " a 

 Heel plate 30 inches long, VI broad, and 

 04 thick; 1 hardened it m acompofition 

 <jf oil and tallow, and afterwards tem- 

 pered it down to a fprinsi temner ; it was 

 not fo elaClic as to recover its pofition 

 after being bended ; by hummeriug it to 

 fet it ftraight, it loft its elafticity ; after 

 being ground in the fanie manner as a 

 law, the elafticity became ftill lels, hav- 

 ing nearly returned to the fame ftate 

 as before hardened ; it was then very 

 unifomdy heated till it became blue, 

 when it recovered the whole of its elafti- 

 city : after being glazed bright upon a 

 glazier coated with emery, the elafticity 

 was found to be impaired, but in a lefs 

 degree than when it was ground: the 

 fame effect was alio produced by rubbing 

 with emery or fand paper, and alfo by 

 burnilhing. The elafticity was invariably 

 recovered by bluing, and hence this is 

 always the laft operation in the nianu- 

 fatlory of elaftic lied plate, 



The f(. Mowing arraiiccmrrt has been 

 made at the Royal Inltitution for twelve 

 couifes of lectures, to be delivered the 

 enfuiiig feafooj by the undennentioiud 

 g( ntlemen. 1. Un Ciieiniftry, by H. Da- 

 vy, efq. r. W.-^. — '2. On Natural Philofo- 

 phy, by AVilliam Allen, efq. F. L.S. — 

 S. On En«;lifli J^itorature, by ihc Rev. T. 

 1". Dibdin. — I. On M(jral Fhilolopliy, by 

 the Rev. Ndney Smiih, A.M. Evcniu'i; 

 Preacher at the Fouiidling lloij)ital.— 

 5. On Dramatic Poetry, by the Rev. Wil- 

 liam Crov\e, L. L. B. Public Orator of the 

 Univerlity of Oxf.rd. — 6. On Zooioay, 

 by George Shaw, M.D. F.L.S. JJbia- 

 iian to the Britilli Muff uni. 7. On Belles 

 Lettres, the IJev. Jolui Hewlett, B.I). 

 Morning I'leaclaT at tlit- Foundling. 8. 

 On Mulic, W. Crutch, M.D. Profellbr 

 of Mul'.c in the Univerlity of Uxtord. 

 9. On the Hiiiory of Commerce, the 

 Rev. Edward I'orlier. 10. On l)ra;viii<; 

 in Water CoUjuis, W.M. Crait, l"li:|T 



11. f»n Ijolany, J. F,. Smith, M.D. F.R.S. 

 and PnMident of the Liiincan Society. 



12. On Pei-fpective, by IMr. Wood. 



liopia. 

 A letter has recently been received 

 from i\l. Rk!imaKi\, the phylician in the 

 fuite of the Ruftian embalfy to China, 

 dated Kiachta on the frontiers of China, 

 October nth, 1805; in which he fays 

 tliat he has vaccinated a great number of 

 the children of the Mogols. " Thefe 

 pco|>lc (continues IM. Rehniaiin,) liave 

 retained the limplc manners and ouftonjs 

 of their anreftors. They live in tents, 

 and (iill make life of bows arid arrows, 

 which they employ with fuch dexterity 

 and precilion, that when they went out 

 with the Rnllians of the ambafiador's 

 fuite they killed fix times a.« much game 

 as the latter, though provided with ex- 

 cellent fowling-pieces." He likewile 

 writes that he ha^ dilcovered a little port- 

 able pharmaceutic collection of "Miibet, 

 from wiiich the fcicnce of medicine is 

 likely to derive advantage. It conllfts of 

 fixty diftcrent articles, very elegiuitly 

 wrapped in paper. Among thefe are 

 Ibme remedies known in Europe ; but 

 with a much greater number the botanifts 

 attached to the embalTy were unacquaint- 

 ed. The latter conlilt of fir.all fruits, 

 nuts, and fome chemical preparcitions. 

 AI. Rehmann has procured a tranflation 

 of the lilt of them, which was written in 

 tl:e language of Tangut. He propofes 

 to bring with him fonie of thefe collec- 

 tions of medicines, which arc mirch in 

 life among the Bucharians. 



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