On the Poi/onous Honey, ^c. I2i 



The Board of Longitude has fent a quadrant to Flauguergues 

 at Viviers, and one to Dangos at Tarbe, to enable them to 

 make more correal and more continued obfervalions. 



flauguergues has already employed his obfervations to de- 

 termine the latitude of his obfervatory 44^ 29' 22'^, greater by 

 18" than what was given by the triangles ; he has affidnoufly 

 continued to obferve the eclipfes of Jupiter's fatellites; he 

 has obferved the fpots of the fun, which were frequent this 

 year, and has calculated a great many pofitions of the itars. 



Chabrol has communicated to iis a new analytical method 

 for eclipfes, and has calculated feveral ; he has alfo verified 

 the tables of Mars and Mercury by obfervations in the pre- 

 fcnt year. He has reduced 600 obfervations of the ftars, 

 and has calculated 600 longitudes in the fundamental cata- 

 logue : in a word, he fhows himfelf a young zealous co-ope- 

 -rater, curious and void of ambition, who is entitled to our 

 grateful acknowledgments. 



C. Mougin, cure of La Grande-Combe-des-Bois, in the 

 mountains of the department of Doubs, has fent us a large 

 table of prcceflions ; that is to fay, of the annual changes of 

 the ftars in right afcenfion, according to the data with which 

 I furniflied him. For thirty years paft we have received 

 from this worthy pallor marks of zeal, application, curiofity, 

 and courage, very rare, efpecially in the deferts. 



Dr. Mafkelyne has ient us his obfervations of 1800, a con- 

 tinuation of the valuable colleftion he has been making ^o^f 

 36 years; and he has announced to us the Nautical Almanac 

 of 1806. 



[To be concluded in our next.] 



XXIV. So77ie Account of the 'PoiJ'ono7is and Injurious Honey 

 of North America. By Benjamin Smith Barton, 

 M.D.* 



I 



N the year 1785 I had an opportunity of obfcrving 

 fome of the difagrecable eflaHs of our wild honey upon 

 feveral perfons who had eaten of it, in the wellern parts 

 of Pcnnfylvania, near the river Ohio. From thefc cflefts I 

 was perfuaded, that a fubftance which is generally confi- 

 dcred as entirely innocent, is capable of doing much injury 

 to the conUilution. I was, therefore, induced to pay fomc 



* Read befurc the Amcricnn Phllolo}»liic.il Society, and commiinicarcd 

 TO the Editor of the riiilofn|)hical MHt;i7.ine by the author. It will tonn 

 pau of the fifth volume of tlie American Traniaftions. 



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