Notices refpeSihig New Beds. 7,'6'J 



following: — i. Are there criteria by which we may difcover 

 whether a perfon has hano;i;d hinifelf, or been handed by 

 others? — 2. Can it be afcertained whether a human body 

 found dead in water has been drowned, or whether the perfon 

 had been thrown in after death ? 



He does not omit to notice the two famous trials of the 

 laft century, in which much liiiht was thrown on thefe two 

 queltions. The one rehited to the unfortunate Cahis con- 

 demned at Touloufe, and folcmnly juftified at Paris: the 

 other to young Sirvan, tound drowned in a well a league 

 from his father's houfe. 



BOTAXy. 



Dr. Schrader, one of the moll celebratetl German bota- 

 nifts, publiflies at Gottingen a botanical journal containing 

 an account of the mod important difcoveries in regard to the 

 fcience of vegetables. This journal, written in Latin and in 

 German, appears every three months. Each number or vo- 

 lume confitls of about 450 pages duodecimo, illuftratrd with 

 three plates, each of which exhibits feveral figures. The 

 author divides each number into four parts. The firft is 

 deftined for the papers and memoirs addrefled to him ; in 

 the fecond he gives an extradft from new works ; the third 

 contains the moll important difcoveries and obfervations 

 made in the fcience of botany; and the fourth, every thing 

 moft interefting in the correfpondence which the author 

 maintains with the literati in Europe. 



Though every part of botany is cultivated with the moft bril- 

 liant fuccefs in the north of Europe, the Rudy of the crvpto- 

 gamia clafs of plants, that is to fay, fliofe the fc.xual organs 

 of which are difficult to be difcovered, fcems to engage, in 

 a particular manner, the botanifts of thofe countries. To 

 them we are much indebted for the light which lias been 

 thrown on this department of botany. The labours of 

 Hedwig, Hofl'man, Schrader, Humboldt, Pcrfoon, Fiiigge, 

 Stromeyer, &c. have diilipated the ohfcurity with which the 

 nature and origin of nniffirooms were furroundcd. This 

 journal, therefore, of which fix numbers have already ap- 

 peared, as it contains all the new difcoveries and obferva- 

 tions in regard to botany, cannot fail to be of utility to thofe 

 who are fond of this fcience. 



A very valuable work on this fubjefl is now publifliing in 

 Paris. It is an account of new and rare plants colleclcd by 

 C. Cells, with line plates. The hillory of thcl'c plants is 

 drawn up with great ability by the celebrated botanifl Vcn- 



tcnat. 



