trz A Query refpeSllng Uranile, 



Military'- Anatomical Theatre; the Chirurgical College; the 

 School of Midwifery, and the School for attending on the 

 Sick. He augmented the Court Library at Manheim with 

 the fcarceft and mod valuable works ; expended confiderable 

 fums on the ObfervatOry of that city, and raifed it to be 

 one of the firll not only in Germany but in Europe. To 

 encourage and promote the fine arts, he eftabliflied in 1775 

 the Academy of Drawing and Sculpture at Manheim, a Hall 

 for copyijng Paintings with a valuable colle6lion of piclures, 

 and the German National Theatre, which, by the zeal of 

 M. von Dalberg and the talents of excellent performers, foon 

 became one of the moft celebrated in Germany. 



On the 2d of April, at Lizieux in Normandy, Charles 

 Lemonnier, the oldeft of the contemporary French aftrono- 

 mers. He .was born on the 20th of November 17155 ^nd 

 had a great fliare in the expedition undertaken in 1/35 ^^^ 

 meafurins: a defrree of the meridiaH in the north. 



TO THE EDITOR OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE. 

 SIR, 



IN a colleftion of minerals in my pofleflion there are fcve- 

 ral fpecimens which I fufpeft to contain Mr. Klaproth's 

 new femi-metal uranite ; but as they are handfome, and not 

 laro-e, am unwilling to facrifice them to analyfis to know 

 their contents. 



If any of your mineralogical readers can, through the 

 channel of your ufcful Magazine, point out by what means 

 the prefeftce of uranite can be afcertained in fuch fmall pit-ccs 

 only as can be detached from cabinet fpecimens, I fliall be 

 much obliged to him. 



Bv oiving this a place In your next Number, you will 

 oblige one who wi{hc3 every fuccefs to the PhilofophicaJ 

 Magazine. 



June 15, J799- •"■• "• 



