4% 'Sluing if thi Natinal Itijliiiite of Fiitncf. 



SCIENTIFIC NErrs. 



1 HE Public will hear witli much pleafure, that the Journal iles Scavans and the Aunalcs 

 rfc Chimie are both revived. The former work, as ufual, is anonymous, though the papers 

 iive marked by initials or characlcrs. The latter prefcnts the refpeclable names of its au- 

 thors, Guyton,Mongc, BcrthoUct, Fourcroy, Adet, Seguin,Vauquelin, Pclletier, C. A.Pricur, 

 Chaptal, and Van Mons. 



Of the Journal des Scavans, four numbers have reached England, commencing i6 Nivofe, 

 an. 5 (Jan. 5, 1797), continued on the 30th of the fame trimcftre, and afterwards publiflicd 

 on the fame days of each trimcftre refpeflively. 1 he lad, 3oPluviofe, therefore anfwcrs to 

 I'eb. 18. Regular extraSs will in future be given in our Journal. 



The firft number contains an introduftion and a general fketch of the Hate of letters, 

 fciences, and arts in Europe, at the commencement of the fifth year of the Trench Republic 

 (23 Sept. 1796). The latter is drawn up with the hand of a mailer. 



Scientific matters contained in the fecond number are : i. The public fitting of the Na- 

 tional Inftitute of the 15th Nivofe. Citizen Prony announced three aftronomical memoirs of 

 Citizen Flaugergue, affociatc ; and the continuation of the great work of Citizens Dclambrc 

 and Mcchain on the M^-.idian from Bayonne to Dunkirk, which will be finiflied in the year 

 6. Citizen Lacepede announced the following memoirs : — On the fulphureous acid, by 

 C. Fourcroy and Vauquelin — Various works of C. Lamarque on the general principles of 

 Chemlilry, from which a chromometric fcale is obtained — Defence of the new chemical 

 theory againll a German, by C. Van Mons, aflbciate — On the fubftance of gold, by 

 C. Chaptal, aflbciate — On vegetable juices, by the fame— On the gluten of wheat, by 

 C. Texier — On the teeth of animals, particularly the horfc, by C. Tenon — On the nature 

 and caufcs of vertigo in horfes, by C. Huzard— Refearches on the epidemical diforders of 

 cattle, by the fame — An elementary tabic of tlie hiftory of animals, by C. Cuvier — On the 

 ufe of mercury in the fmall-pox, by C. DefelTarts. 



The travels continued with fuccefs by various members of the Inftitute, afforded Citizen 

 I>accpcde an opportunity for a well-timed digreffion in form of an invocation to Peace, 

 which was greatly applauded. 



The Citizen Talleyrand, one of the fccretaries of the fecond clafs, gave an account of its 

 labours. They confift of two memoirs on Ideology, by C. Tracy, adbciatc — Two memoirs 

 of C. Laromiguiere, aflbciate ; one on the operations of the human undcrflanding ; the 

 other on the fignification of the word Idea — On the converfion of the territorial impoft. Into 

 a duty on fucceffions, by C. Duvillard, aflbciate — On public credit, by C. Dyanniere, 

 alTociate — Inquiries refpeifling the Arabian Gulf, by C. Goflelin — Concerning the manners 

 of the Greeks in the time of Homer, by C. Levefque — Three hift:orlcaI memoirs ; one re- 

 fpcfling the Egyptians, another on the Swifs, and the 'bird concerning Peru, by C. Aiiqueti! 

 —Notice refpefting Sylvain Bailly, by C. Delifle de Sales. 



Citizen Scguin, affociatc, read a memoir on the tanning of (kins. His procefs, of which 

 fome account has already been given*, is faid to produce the fame effeft in one montli, as by 

 the ancient pioccfs required fifteen or eighteen. 



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