1 807.} Lkeraa^y and Philojophkal InlelUgencc. 58 1 



And VI. ^ 



Fifth ftyle.— H;^/'/v decorated, or fiorid Eng- i'utfnioliiT-row. 

 ;;*, from 14.U to l.<09, including the reigns :^I,. Wilson's Spnng Con A' ot Lec- 



of Edwards IV. and V., Richard III., and tures on AnuKjiny, Pliyholo-y, I atholosrv, 



Henry VII. ^iid Sur.j;ci-y, uill besia at tlK; theatre ol 



From this era we lofc fight of all ftyle and -• •■■ ■ " -' '■" 



congriiity ; and the public buildings erected 

 durins the reigns of Henry VIII. Elizabeth, 

 and James 1. may be cliaracterifed by the 

 terms of dthajed Eiigl'ijh, or jingh- Italian. 



A valualjle puhlitation is announced 

 by lubl'cription, to he called the London 

 Nr<iociatoi- ; to conlilt of a complete fet 

 of tables of 1-oi-ei^n I'Acbaiiiie, calculated 



anatomy, tireat VVindmill-ltieet. on 

 Tuefdav, the 20tji of January, VHfT. 



Mr. Taunton will relume his wuiti^r 

 Courlc ol'Lectnres and nemonftrations on 

 Anatomy, Fhvholoiiv, Pathology, and Sur- 

 gery, on" Saturday, the olfi <it Jar.uary, 

 1807, at eight o'clock in the eyenin^ 

 ])recirclv, at 21, GrcyiUe-ilrect. The 

 lectures" uill be continued at the fame 



ot tables ol i'orei^n j'.xeiiuum-, L.IIV....IIV.. lectures \ym oc conunucn .i<. v. .^ ..•••— 

 from the lowcll exchange to the highelt ; ]„„„. ^^.^.j-y Tuel'day, Thurlday, and Sa- 

 and Ihcvying, at one view, any luiii ot turday. 



foreis;ii money reduffd into IJritifh fier 

 liu<^, and Biitflh money into foreign, with 

 thofc countries with which Loudon ex- 

 chaniies. 



The late John Iltssr.i.r,, M]. K. A. 

 celebrated amongil men of fcience tor 

 the produclion of the Lunar Globe, left 

 ut his death two lunar phmiipheric diaw- 

 in-:s, the reCuit of nnmherlefs teleicopic 



Savim.e IIotsF., Leiceftcr-fquarc, IS 

 undergoini: confideruble alterations, witli 

 a view to the conllructiou of a magnih- 

 cent fuit of room^, to be called the 

 Lin WOOD Gaileuv, and lolely appro- 

 priated to the exhibition of the i)icturcs 

 of Miss Lin wood. The buddings w^iU 

 be complete d after Chriftmas, and the 

 exhibition will be opened m the ipnng, 



obtervations, fcrupulotifly mcafured by a fu,.nii„j; one of the penimncut oriiameuts 



micrometer: one of which drawings ox- of the metropolis. 



hihits the lunar ,di(k in a liate of direct j Pjeuson, El'q. read the Croonian 



oppofition to the fun, when the eini- Lecture on INI ufcular Motion to the Royal 



nenccsand deprcflion.s.are i/H(/eftv/wi//f£/, Society this win" '* "' *'''' 



find eycry intrical"? part, arifnig tram CO- oioater part of 



form, or intxpl -"' '■- '" ' ...... 



lour, form, or inexplicable caufes. 

 deyeloped and delineated ; the other, of 

 precifely the fame proportion, reprelcnts 

 I he eiiiinenccs and depreflions of the 

 moon determined as to their torm with 

 the utmOft accuracy, producing their 

 fliadows when, the fun is only a few de- 

 grees above the horizon of each part. 

 The former of riicfe was correctly en- 

 graved hy Mr. RuIIlU, who had likewile 

 \c.ry eonfidcrably adyanccd in the en- 

 i^ra'ving of the latter, .vhen death ter- 

 minated his labours: it is Loiv ever left 

 in fuch a forward Hate, that it will be 

 iiniihed with the greatell exacinefs, and 

 all pollible dlfpatch. — Mr. William 

 IlfSsr.i.i, of .Newman. (ireot, Ion and 



ter. it occupied the 

 ,v...v,. part of two evenings, in the 

 courfe of «hich the lecturer entered jnlp 

 an elaborate detail concerning the heat 

 and pulfations of animals ui dillerent, 

 latitudes, in order to tifcertam their ef- 

 fect on their mufcles. As an mtlanco ; 

 in this cliiuHte the jjulfe of h>)ifes bca< 

 36 times in a minute, that of cows 48, 

 and that of men about 72 : m Lapland, 

 and other high northern latitudes, the 

 iiuimm pulfe does not Lcut more tbm 

 from 4.j to 50 times in a minute. Mr. 

 1'. has made numerous txpeninents oa 

 the inufcles, in all which he found thij 

 mufcular irritability completely deliroy- 

 td by plunging tiiem in water at the 

 temperature of 9t.^ ; electricity, fitter 

 fuch imjnerfipns, fometiines 'lavc llit^ht 



Jtrssr.i.i, oi .NcvMiian.mc. I, iw "■•" jli,>u imjnernons, lomeLui"-^ :^.<«>v ..■„■•- 



fucceOor of iho lute Mr. lluirtll, pro- fymptouis of excitability, but no human 



pofes to pubhlh hy fubfcription thcle effort coidd ever again reltoro the mul- 



lunar plates. The price to be five gtii- cular fibre to its proper tone and vigour. 



ncas, 'iialf of which fum is to be paid ut 

 the time of fubfcribing. 



A .Sunday Newi'papcr has been com- 

 menced At "Cork; other news papers are 

 announced in London : all io many 

 proofs of the fpint of eii'^uiry which per- 

 vades this empire. 



it may gratify the curious In eaftern 

 literature U) learn, that a number of 

 artichs, principally in the Bengal Ian' 



MoMHLY h\^<^-, Nfi. KM. 



».L..,v. ..K-.^ ■' proper 



Cold produced fimilar elVects on the muf- 

 cular fibre, by inftantly defiroyiug_ its ir- 

 ritahiliiy. Hence the neceffity of great 

 caution in applying warm water to the 

 fiii'ucc ol' bodie* recently immeifcd in 

 water m cafes of fufpended refpiration, 

 as heat may be equally as bail as cold 

 wi.h regard to its eflects on the mufcular 

 fibre, which by JNL-. P. is coniidered in 

 fomc degree th'c organ of life. Blood h6 

 4 li regards 



