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Captain Layman, r.n. in answer to 

 a question, (vol. Iv. p. 258,) "Wliere 

 subjects for dissection are to come 

 from?" suggests, that it may be done 

 by gratuitous testament, in which the 

 medical profession should rise above 

 prejudice, and set the example. "■ My 

 body (says he) individually, might not 

 be of much use ; but, as my head (if not 

 knocked off by a shot) might be be- 

 spoken for Professor Bleumenbach's 

 collection, it would be one of the great- 

 est pleasures to me while living, to re- 

 flect that my remains might be tiseful 

 after death." 



A course of Twelve Lectures on Ita- 

 lian Literature has been announced by 

 M. Ugo roscoLO, comprising every 

 thing essential in its poetry, general 

 letters, and language. 



Two volumes, History and Chemis- 

 try, having appeared of the Methodical 

 CycIopcdiae,the next volume, contain- 

 ing the Mathematical and Physical Sci- 

 ences, is printing, with all the speed 

 compatible with accuracy and perfec- 

 tion. 



A volume of Sermons on several 

 Subjects, with notes critical, historical, 

 and explanatory, by the Rev. Charles 

 Swan, late of Catharine Hall, Cam- 

 bridge, will shortly appear. 



Anotiier poem, on the subject of Al- 

 fred, is in the press,,and will soon ap- 

 pear, from the pen of R. P. Knight, 

 esq. 



It is stated by Mr. Bradley, that 

 sparrows, though seemingly so destruc- 

 tive in gardens, arc in reality extreme- 

 ly useful ; for he discovered that two, 

 in feeding their young, carried to the 

 nest forty caterpillars in an hour, 

 which, allowing twelve hours for their 

 daily search for food, would make 480 

 in the day, or 3360 in the week, be- 

 sides other destructive insects. 



It appears from a Sierra Leone Ga- 

 zette (of Nov. 2), that Capt. Al. Laing, 

 of the Royal African Light Infantry, 

 on a journey into the interior of Afri- 

 ca, saw the hill from which the myste- 

 rious Niger takes its rise ; it is there 

 called Tembley Springs, (9. 15. N. lat. 

 9. 36. W. Ion.) The captain opened a 

 trading intercourse with several tribes 

 before unknown, and at a great dis- 

 tance from the British settlement. 



GERMANY. 



Dr. TiEDEMANN, a celebrated physi- 

 cian at Heidelberg, has been fortunate 

 enough to detect the origin and course 

 of the nerves of the uterus ; and he has 

 just communicated this important dis- 



[May 1, 



covery in a work intituled, Tabula: 

 Nervorum Uteri. It is printed in the 

 largest folio size, and contains two 

 highly-finished engravings on copper, 

 and two outline lithographic prints, 

 after designs from nature, by Profes- 

 sor Roux. Some copies are in Lon- 

 don. 



A remarkable female is noticed by 

 the German newspapers, for the ex- 

 tent of her learning, particularly in 

 acquiring languages. She was a na- 

 tive of Crtlogne, by name Maria Schuz- 

 man, understood twelve languages ex- 

 tremely well, and wrote five classi- 

 cally. Excess of genius, and perhaps 

 the multiplicity of acquirements, made 

 her at length melancholy mad ; and 

 she died, it is said, from a debauch in 

 eating spiders. 



A Catalogue has been published at 

 Leipsic of the Books that appeared at 

 the Frankfort and Leipsic fairs in Sep- 

 tember last. Three hundred and three 

 libraries contributed to form the ag- 

 gregate. The total number was 1429, 

 to which may be added thirty-seven 

 collections of charts, maps, or plans of 

 battles, thirteen ditto of music, sixty- 

 eight romances, and thirty-six theatri- 

 cal pieces. Philology seems to have 

 made the greatest progress, being aug- 

 mented with a number of literaiy dis- 

 sertations and excellent new editions of 

 works. Attention has been paid to the 

 Sanscrit literature. Of German wri- 

 ters, M. the dean Bauer seems to be 

 the most popular. 



ITALY. 



An Italian has lately returned from 

 travelling in Egypt, nearly over the 

 same ground with the American whose 

 volume lately came out. He proposes 

 to publish ; and, if assisted or encou- 

 raged, means to set out from Tripoli, 

 to penetrate to the Bahr-el-Abyad, or 

 White Nile. 



FRANCE. 



M. A. St. Hilaire read, in the Aca- 

 demy of Sciences of I'aris, Dec. 16, 

 1822, an extract of his travels in the 

 Brazils, from which it appears that this 

 naturalist traversed a great part of the 

 country ; and. penetrating along the 

 banks of the Rio de la Plata, advanced 

 as far as the missions of Paraguay. 

 He has brought away collections of 

 about 600 species of birds and reptiles, 

 and nearly 7000 species of vegetables. 

 He intends publishing a Flora of South 

 Brazil, and a general Survey of the 

 Vegetation of the Countries he has 



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