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general readers. 2. A select. library 
of reference. 3. A news room, *4. 
A reading room. 5. Lectures on the 
different branches. of philosophy, 
science, and the arts. And, 6. A ‘che- 
mical Jaberatory and philosophical 
apparatus.—It will be necessary that 
seven hundred shares of twenty-five 
guineas each should be subscribed for, 
and that eyery share should. be made 
responsible for the payment of two 
guineas per annum; the share to give 
a personal admission to every part of 
the Institution, and a participation in 
all its advantages. A deposit of two 
guineas is to be paid on every share 
‘subscribed for; a further sam of ten 
guineas on the Ist of December, 1822; 
and the remaining instalment of thir- 
teen guineas on the 25th of March, 
1823; the first annual payment of two 
guineas to be made on the Ist of No- 
vember, 1823. 
The Chevalier Dupin, a member of 
the Royal Institute of France, and the 
author of ‘ Voyages dans la Grande 
Bretagne,” is now publishing the se- 
cond part of his mathematical re- 
searches, under the title of Applications 
de. Géométrie et de Méchanique. ‘This 
book, which forms a quarto volume, 
with sixteen plates, contains the au- 
thor’s theories upon the stability of 
floating bodies ; upon the research of 
the best directions for roads upon a 
soil of any form whatsoever, in yarious 
conditions ; upon the Déblais et Rem- 
blais, viz. the transportation of mate- 
rials, making at first a heap of a given 
figure, into another heap, also of a 
given. figure; upon the laws according 
to which rays of light, emanated from 
a single poimt, are subjected in their 
various reflections upon glasses of any 
form; finally, upen the mathematical 
examination of the new structure of 
English men-of-war. The Memoirs 
in which these matters are treated 
have been presented to, and approved 
by, the Royal Institute of France, and 
the Royal Society of London. 
On the Ist of November will be 
published, embellished with a beauti- 
ful engraving of Bonaparte passing 
the Alps, from the celebrated picture 
by Dawid, .No. I. of the Napoleon 
Anecdotes, illustrating the mental 
energies of the late Emperor of 
France, and the characters and ac- 
tions of his eotemporaries. 
Early in November will be publish- 
ed, anew Map of the Har, taken from 
anatomical preparations in the, posses- 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
(Nov, a 
sion of Mr. J. H. Curtis, and designed 
chiefly for the use of his pupils. 
Mr, Suaw has in the press a work 
on Diseases of the Spine. The first 
part will treat of the distortions to 
which young persons are subject in 
consequence of habitual bad postures, 
and the neglect of proper exercise. 
The second part will embrace scrofu- 
lous diseases of the spine. The whole 
will be illustrated by engravings. 
Capt. FRaNkLIN, and the persons 
composing the north-west land: expe- 
dition, have returned to England. The 
toils and the snfferings of the expedi- 
tion have been of the most trying de- 
seription. It was fitted out im the 
summer of 1819, and in 1820 was ena- 
bled, by the liberal aid and reinforce- — 
ment of the N. W. Company, to 
advance to the shores of the Great 
Bear Lake, where it encamped and 
wintered, in the ensuing spring, it 
approached the Copper Mine River, 
which it descended until it fell imto 
the ocean. The expedition proceeded 
in two canoes to explore the coast, 
eastward from the mouth of the Cop- 
per Mine River towards Hudson’s 
Bay; but, in consequence of. the ap- 
proach of winter so early as the latter 
end of August, heavy falls of snow, 
dense as mist, and an extremely ill- 
provided wardrobe, the expedition 
was prevented from accomplishing its 
design, furtherthan exploring about500 
miles of the coast which lies to the 
north-east of the Copper Mine River, 
and ascertaining, that, so far as the eye 
could penctrate, the sea which lay 
before them was quite open, and per- 
fectlyfree from ice. In forcing their way 
through the untravelled wilds between 
the Copper Mine River and the Great 
Bear Lake, they fell completely short 
of provisions, and were for many days 
under the necessity of subsisting upon 
sea-weeds, and a powder produced 
from pounding the withered bones of 
the food which they had already con- 
sumed. In this struggle, Mr. Hood, 
nine Canadians, and an Esquimaux, 
fell untimely and regretted vietims; 
and_ had not the survivors, who for se- 
veral days were driven to the necessity 
of prolonging a miserable existence 
by feeding upon the tattered remnants 
of their shoes, exerted themselves hy 
a super-human effort to reach the 
Great Bear Lake, it is probable that 
they would have all suffered the most _ 
appallingmariyrdom. Here they found 
the heads and the bleached nove pf 
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