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signs, therefore, did not exist antiently. M. de Guignes. 

 inters from what ue now know of the Chinese system, that 

 the Egyptian was the same. 



The losses to science this year from the deaths of learned 

 men have not fallen upon astronomers ; but M. Coulomb, 

 to whom magnetism lies uniler great obligations, deserves 

 our regret, as I have shown in the discourse I pronounced 

 over his tomb, and which I printed : M. Delambre has also 

 noticed his death in an elegant manner in the Memoirs of 

 the Institute. 



In the Ephemerides of Milan for 1806, M. Cesaris has 

 given the Life of Francis Rcggio, born at Genoa on the 2oth 

 of April 1743, and who died at Milan on the 12th of Oc- 

 tober 1804, whose labours have illustrated the Milan ob- 

 servatory for these forty years. I have often taken occasion 

 to speak of the EpheiiRridts of Milan. M. Rcggio has been 

 replaced by M. Carlini : M. Flaugergues has published the 

 eulogy of M. de Ralte ; M. VUtalis has read to the Academy 

 of Rouen that of M. Dulague. 



I forgot to mention in the History of Astronomy for 

 ISOl, George Shuckburgh, of v,hi)m I have spoken in my 

 Travels thronu;h Italy, on account of the altitudes of moun- 

 tains measured by him in several countries (I'hil. Trans. 

 1777) ; and also on account of the fine equatorial he caused 

 to be constructed upon his estate, [Astronomic, art. 2110.) 

 It is a iireat loss to the science that this instrument must be 

 now useless for want of an observer. 



'J'hey write from Ratisbon, of the 5ih of March, that 

 count Sternberg, vice-president of the electoral directory, 

 has published a project of a subscriplicm for erecting a co- 

 lossal statue of Carrara marble to the celebrated astronomer 

 Keplery who died at Ratisbon in 1630, on his way to Vienna. 

 The elector was the lirst on the list of subscribers for the 

 sum of 1000 florins. 



Marsha! Ney having entered Thorn on the (jlh'ofDe- 

 ccml)cr, I wrote to request him to erect ;i sumll n.onument 

 to the great Co])crnicus, who was born in this city on the 

 lO'ch of February H73 : this monument will presi-rve the 



memory 



