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The LctTiii'cs at the Royal IiUtitution 

 are agiiin coinnicnccH. Mr. Daw de- 

 livered ;u» admirable difcuurlc, oa Wed- 

 uelday tl»o lOUi of November, introduc- 

 tory to a courl'e of lectures ou vi'g^'lable 

 clieiniftry, in which he gave an outline 

 ol' the I'ubjcct ; lliewed the ul'e and re- 

 lations of thi& to tile other deiJiutments 

 ol' I'cience ; and laid down a plan of the 

 proper method of Itudying it. He exa- 

 Kiiised the works of all the lu-il writers 

 on the fub)ei.t, a|3preci;Uui<; their various 

 merits and defects. To i\lr. Knight and 

 ^Ir. Hatchet he paid die highelt couipli- 

 mcnts.The works of Hem y and i'homplbn, 

 and the 7th and 8th volumes of Tourcrov, 

 lie rcconnnended to the })eruliar notice 

 of tUofe who would wilh to be benelited 

 by attending up)n his lectures. 



The efduvia of the precipitate of jjla- 

 tiiia bv muriate of ammonia, have been 

 obfervcd to occalion the fame etfetts on 

 the eyes, noftrils, throat, and lungs, as 

 a catarrh. " Every time,'' fays the gen- 

 tleman who noticed it, " 1 have had 

 occalion to open a pa[)er of the preci- 

 pitate, although I only touched it with 

 my lingers, or even when 1 did not 

 touch it, but merely infpeaed it for a 

 minute or two, I was in a few minutes 

 affected with an unealy fenfatiou in my 

 eyes, noftrik, throat, and lungs, c\act- 

 ijig a difcliarge of tears, fneezing, with 

 running at the nofe as in a catarrh, iluirt- 

 ^jicfs of breath, atteiuied witlum itching 

 iind heat of the face, with fomctimes 

 the rccinefs of it, as fiom erythema." 



The Scatoniaii prize at Cambridge is 

 this yoar adjudged to the llev. C'iiAiti.ES 

 HoYLE, of Triniry College, for his poem 

 i)ii Paul and Biirnahas at Lyiira. 



Lord Lansdowne's manulcripts, «hieh 

 arc fpoodily to lie f()ld by pubhc auction, 

 form oijc of the riciiei'c colLections of 

 original ftate-papcrs which have ever 

 heen pofieifed by an individual. A large 

 portion of ithein were ]^(jrd iJurlcigli's ; 

 from whole fecrecary, till they came into 

 the hands of Lord ifhclburnc, their de- 

 fccnt may be regularly traced. Among 

 other curiolitics, they contain a great 

 juany royal letters, iijolily, if not all, 

 originals. 



Mr. S. WooDiiuiiNc, of St. Martin's- 

 lane, is about to publilh aliuiidied views 

 of churches in the neighbourhood of 

 London, accoin])aiiied by defcriptions 

 drav.n from the beli. authorities, both 

 jiiaiiufcript and printeiL 'H:ey will aji- 

 iiear tifty in a volauio; aiifl the firll vo- 

 lume is expected to be piiblilhed in 

 lilaah lyur. 



Mr. Sawdf.y will Ihortly UiV befjie 

 the public an account of a newlv-difco- 

 vered membrane of the eve, with ioine 

 obfervations on the cure of th« filtuia 

 lachryinalis. 



It has been long kncjwn that water is 

 heft prefervt'd in calks that have been 

 cliarred : it has now been afcertamed 

 that l;ilted provilioiis may be kept in this 

 way for a great length of time. Tiie ■ 

 crews of two Ilullian Ihips which lately 

 failed round the world, were fo -healthy 

 that only two men died during the \oy- 

 age. They lived entirely on provifions 

 kept in charred calks ; arid the beef, at 

 the end of three years, wiis as pleafant 

 as when they iirft went out. 



The Kmperor Alexander has fu|>- 

 prclfed the Imperial Seminary for the 

 reception of young ladies, founded by 

 the Eniprefs Ehzabctii on the fame mo- 

 del as the: convent of St. Cyr in France. 

 In the |)reamble of his ediit he declares, 

 that thole funds may be ufed to greater 

 advantage, if ap|)lied to the education 

 of thole youths who arc intended to 

 lerve their country ; and that the educa- 

 tion of a female, being limited to dc- 

 medic management, Ine will learn it 

 Iboner in her tiifhcr's houfe, than in a 

 liiinptuous eflablilhraent, where it is 

 vainly attempted to teach the fciences, 

 the knowledge of winch Nature forbids 

 them. 



Suedcn. 



Colonel SiaiJEtjf.ERAN-D, the niafter of 

 the Italian named Acerbi, has lately pul.- 

 lilhed ;ui Account of their.rourney to the 

 North Cape, in one volume 8vo. Tiiis 

 work does not contain the fame details 

 as that of Acerbi, but is conlidercd 

 fis being entitled to more credit. 

 Giimum/. 



^L LropoLD Djv Ikcii, member of the 

 Academv of Sciences at Berlin, and the 

 friend of Baroa Humboldt, has gone to 

 Iceland for the purpofb of making phy- 

 fical and geological ri, fearchcs. 



Dr. Bozzi.N'i, of Frankfort, has in\ent- 

 ed an inlmimeiit, which he dpni^minates 

 the fivlii-Jpiff^dir. it is intended to 

 alford an . mfpection of the interior of 

 wounds, or the various parts of die hu^ 

 man body, luch hs adophagiis, the va- 

 gina, the uterus, ike. The inventor is 

 pri'pariug for tiic prefs drawings and de- 

 iijriptions of this curious inftrumont. 



\'()\ Mkcti i.r. is occupied, in conipnny 

 wall Medis. Hiimbolt and De Biieh tlw 

 travellers, Trailes the miifhematiciiiD, 

 aiKJ Code the ultronomer, in preparimr 



