340 Foreign Literature and Science. 
INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES. 
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Foreign Laterature and Science. 
(Communicated by Professor Griscom, of New-York.) 
The number of books in all the public libraries of Ger- 
many, (including Austria and Prussia,) amounts at least to 
four millions, without reckoning memoirs, pamphlets, peri- 
odical publications, dissertations, and manuscripts. 
Professor Goerg, of Leipsick, has proved, it is said, very 
satisfactorily, that the Tinea of wood ep seshenens acid.) 
ly restored he contact with this acid. An animal body 
in the opinion of this professor, may be readily converted 
into a mummy by this substance. The discovery of this 
eid} is likely to oh ee important to anatomy, domestic 
economy, and medicine 
In the empire of Austria, anere are no less than twenty- 
three botanic gardens. 
The unfolding of the manuscripts of Herculaneum, is care 
ried on with very considerable success by a chemical pro- 
cess, under the direction of Sir H. Davy.” Of one thousand 
‘six hundred and ninety-six pieces which have been found, 
eighty-eight have been happily unrolled, and the writing 
is very legible ; three hundred and nineteen are not legible, 
and twenty-four have been given as presents to foreign 
princes. There remain one thotisand two hundred and 
sixty-five, of which one hundred, or one hundred : mt twenl- 
ty will, it is hoped, be saved from oblivion. 
A plant, called Chinininha by the natives of Peru, b 
tae analyzed at Madrid. . It proves to be an act 
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