French National Inflitute. ort 
aguelques: Philofophes de T Antigquité fur les Republiques an- 
‘ciennes, Second part. In this fecond part the author con+ 
fines himfelf to an| examination of the opinions of Xeno- 
phon and Ifocrates teipadlng the republics of Sparta and 
Athens. 
_ Cit. Ameilhon continues his refearches on the art of dye- 
ing among the ancients. His third memoir is particularly 
devoted to an examination of the fubftances from which the 
ancient dyers derived their red colours*., The fearlet red 
was procured from the coccws, which, as far as appears, was 
our hermes. This fmal]l infect is found on the thorny Jeaves 
and tender fhoots of a kind of Quercus ilex or ever-green 
oak, which grows on the ftony hills of Provence. and .Lan- 
guedoc. The purple red, which was called fimply purple, 
-was the moft valuable colour. It was referved for the veft- 
ments of the: firft magiftrates and of emperors: It :was 
extracted from two fmall fea fhell-fith, the Luccinum and the 
murex,| Reaumur found the former on the ‘coafts of Poitou ; 
and Duhamel the latter on thofe of Provence t: 
Cit. Ameilhon read alfo a {hort notice refpe&ing a: Greek 
-manufeript containing a work on the ancient chémiliry, and 
erroneoutly afcribed to Democritus of Abdera.. ) 
C. Camus read a memoir on.a book, which at bottom 
eontains nothing very interefting, as it is only a.bad»roe- 
- mance, written in honour of the emperor Maximilian. I. 
emnder the title of Des bauts Faits d’ Armes et des (Avan- 
odures de Villufire et célébre et belliqgueux Heros et Chevalier dy 
Tewerdank, ou du Grand Penfer. ©. Camus, in: this me- 
moir, examines the queftion, which has been'a fubje& of 
controverfy among the learned, whether this» book was 
printed with engraved blocks of wood, or with nioveabig 
.* For fome curious: information on this fubjeét fee Beckmann’s Hift. of 
Javentions, vol, ii..p.t01. Epit. 
+ On this fubje fee Bancroft’s excellent work upon the Theory ‘of 
Permanent Colours. Epir, 
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