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VARIETIES, Literary anv PaILosoPHIcat. 
Including Notices of Worksin Hand, Domestic and Foreign. 
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CIENCE has sustained an irrepa- 
rable loss by the death of Dr. Bzp- 
pors, of Bristol, in the maturity of his 
genus, and in the prime of bis life. He has 
Jong been an ornament of his profession, 
and an honou to his country among: fo- 
reign nations, as a chemist and philoso- 
pher. In our next we shall endeavour to 
do justice to his useful life and character, 
in a full account of both, 
The attention of the public is at 
present drawh towards the various 
plans for producing light and heat for 
domestic purposes, respectively from gas 
and steam. Various new experiments 
are making in the present winter, and 
nothing retards the general adoption of 
one or both plans, but the strange omis- 
sion of artizans to present to the public 
complete, convenient, and elegant appa- 
ratus adapted to various purposes.. We. 
have inserted accounts of some experi- 
ments for lighting by gas, in other parts 
of this Magazine, and we hope in our 
next. Number to be able to introduce 
further particulars of Mr, OaK.ey’s va- 
Juable experiment for warming houses by 
steam.* The numerous advantages re- 
sulting from these important applications 
are so obvious, that it must be unneces- 
sary to comment upon them. For warming 
churches, manufactories, hospitals, work- 
houses, schools, mansion-houses, and 
ships, this mode of conveying and diffu- 
sing heat, seems to be of superior conse- 
quence even to the means it affords of 
warming equally at a trifling expence, all 
the parts of a dwelling-house. 
The lovers of the fine arts will learn 
-with satisfaction, that Miss Lixwoon’s 
splendid Exhibition of Pictures of her 
own production, will again constitute one 
of the ornaments of the metropolis in the 
month of February, Fhe great concourse 
of visitors who attended her former exhi- 
bition in Hanover-square, has led Miss 
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* This experiment has previously been 
made with success in some manufactories in 
Scotland. At Mr. Oakley’s, in Old Bond- 
street, the steam is conveyed from a small 
boiler in the cellar through cast-iron pipes, 
of three or four inches bore, into,all the rooms 
of his extensive manufactory, and at the dis- 
tance of one hundred yards from the boiler, 
the steam raises the thermometer totwo hun- 
dred degrees. In the fifth story it boiled a 
copper of water in the laundry, where it also 
~@ried the wet clothes with great rapidity. 
Linwood to determine to render her ex- 
hibition permanent in the metropolis, and 
she has therefore built on the north side 
of Leicester-square, two magnificent 
rooms for the purpose, the largest in Lon- 
don, which we shall call tHe Lixwoop 
Gaxtery. Besides the pictures formerly 
exhibited, there will be at least twenty 
new ones, the recent productions of this 
lady’s unparalleled ingenuity and industry. 
Mr. Taytor (the Platonist) announces 
that he has made some very important 
discoveries in that branch of the mathe- - 
matics, relating to infinitesimals, and 
infinite series. One of these discoveries 
consists in the ability of ascertaining the 
last term of a great variety of infinite 
series, whether such series are composed 
of whole numbers or fractions. Mr. 
Taylor farther announces, as the result 
of these discoveries, that he is able to de- 
monstrate that all the leading proposi- 
tions in Dr. Wallis’s Arithmetic of Infis 
nites are false, and that the doctrine of 
Fluxions is founded on false principles, 
and as wellas the Arithmetic of Infi- 
nites, 1s a most remarkable instance of the 
possibility of deducing true conclusions 
from erroneous principles. Mr. T. is 
now composing a treatise on this subject, 
which will be published in the course of 
next year. 
Mr. James Ermes has undertaken a 
complete and comprehensive Dictionary 
of the Fine Arts, to include accounts of 
the arts in theory and practice, and of 
their professors in all ages. Such a work 
must necessarily become a library of it- 
self to the painter, the sculptor, the ar- 
chitect, the amateur, and the collector of 
subjects connected with the fine arts. 
Mr. Tuomas Morrimer, Vice-consul 
at Ostend forty years ago, and author of 
the work called, Every Man his own 
Broker, published fifty yeats ago, is pre- 
paring a legacy to the world ina new 
Dictionary of Trade,Commerce, and Ma- 
nufactures. Of this work we may say, 
as we have said of the last work, that it 
must constitute a library of itself to the 
numerous persons to whom it addresses 
itself, and we may add, respecting both, 
that it is wonderful such usefal publica- 
tions have never before appeared. 
Dr. Arnotp, of Leicester, has just 
put to press a valuable practical volume 
of Observations on the Management of 
the Insane, a subject on which thirty 
years 
