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have undertaken a work entitled, Corographia e topagraphia 
Sjifia della Tofcana, the plan of which was printed in 17545 
but this great work was never completed. He died on the 
3d of January 1783, leaving behind him a daughter and 4 
fon, Ottaviano Benedetto, prefent profeflor of medicine.— 
Manetti was born on the 12th of November 1723; obtained 
athe degree of doctor in 1747; and practifed as a phyfician. 
He publifhed that elegant work Sorta Nat, degl Uccelli, 
and in 1770 began Magazzino Tofcano, which, after it had 
increafed to 31 volumes octavo, was in the year 1777 con- 
tinued to nine volumes more, under the title of Nuovo Ma- 
gazzino, He died of an apoplexy on his birth-day, in the 
year 1784.—-Of the papers in this work the following are the 
moft worthy of notice: A fhort account of the preparation 
of thofe raifins without ftones,-known under the name of 
Corimthian (currants), a production of the iflands of Zante 
and Cephalonia, the greater part of which are purchafed by 
the Englifh and the Dutch. Experiments made by a Greek, 
in the neighbourhood of Pifa, feem to fhow that the vines 
which produce thefe grapes may be cultivated with advan. 
tage in Tufcany. 
Gherardi, a,Camaldule monk, has made fome experi- 
ments to improve the culture, 8c. of Spanifh broom (Spar- 
tim gunceum), which mutt not be cut, as is commonly 
done, in January, but in October. Dr. Menaubone recom- 
mends the ufe of the common germander (Teucrinm cha- 
medrys) inftead of cinchona, and the, fruit of the privet. 
(Ligufirum vulgare) for dyeing. On the danger of employ- 
ing the blue chickling vetches (Lathyrus: fativa), which, as 
well as the dwarf chickling vetches, Lathyrus cicera, and 
the officinal tares, or true bitter vetches (Ervum ervilia), are. 
prejudicial when eaten, for a long time, in large quantities. 
Cautions againft the ufe of a mufhroom, Fungus alloides 
ennulatus of Vaillant, Pung. raphanum redolens Micheli, 
of which. an engraving is given. Some experiments of 
Fabbroni feem particularly intefefting. .. As the farmers are, 
accuftomed 
