jS ' Letter to the Editor. — Deaths. 



LETTER TO THE EDITOR. 



" SIR, Clifton, June 8, 1800. 



" By a number of lately received communications, I find 

 that much greater aftivity has been lately exerted in trying 

 the effeil of nitric acid in the venereal difeafe than I fup- 

 pofed. I had abandoned every idea of publifhing another 

 feparate colleftion on this fubjeft ; but fo many curious fafts 

 have been afcertained by my correfpondents, and the perfect 

 and permanent antifiphylitic virtue of the acid, when pro- 

 perly managed, fo entirely eftabliihed, that I cannot hefitate 

 to forward the papers, with which I have been favoured, to 

 the prefs. They will be found to contain interefting obferva- 

 tions on other fubjefts. 



'' The printing of Mr. Davy's refearches on nitrous 

 (gafeous) oxyd will be finiflied this week. The volume will 

 contain ample details on the cffeAs produced by this gas 

 when refpired. 



*' I am. Sir, vours very refpeftfully, 

 « Mr. Tillacb, THOMAS BEDDOES." 



DEATHS. 



At Madrid, in January laft, J. Bapt. Munoz, well known 

 by his Hitiory of the New World, uhich has been tranflated 

 into different languages. This work is not yet completed. — 

 On the 20th of January, at Paris, J. B. Le Roy, Member of 

 the National Inftitute, Fellow of the Royal Society of Lon- 

 don, and of the Society of Philadelphia. — At Hafderwyck, 

 in Holland, on the ift of February, in tbe 32d year of his 

 age. Dr. C. P. Schacht, profefibrof medicine, botany, che- 

 niiftry, and natural hiftory. — ^At Milan, in prifon, during the 

 courfe of the fame month, C. Barletti, formerly profeffor of 

 natural philofophy at Pavia, and author of feveral works on 

 natural philofophy and chemiftry. — ^At Pdvia, in March, 

 Prifciani, profeifor of phyfiology, and author of feveral works 

 on that fubjeft. He has left to the univerfity his coUeftion 

 of preparations refpefting comparative anatomy, all made by 

 himfelf, and which amount to feveral thoufand articles. 



