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which has been employed for the purpofes of a fand heat for 
years, and confequently expofed to receive duft and fmall 
fragments of coals, cam he free from carbon ? And what fort 
ofa room it: muft have been which could contain no car- 
boniciacid gas in: the atmofpheric air with which it'was 
filled, places but feldom opened being generally found to 
contain more of that gas than thole which are better venti- 
lated ? 
: FRANCE. 
The Society of Natural Hiftory at Bourdeaux has formed 
Atfelf into a Society of the Sciences, Belles-Lettres and Arts’; 
and, like the National Inftitute, is divided into three claffes : 
-1ft, Mathematical, and phyfical feiences; 2d, Moral: and 
political feiences ; 3d, Literature and the fine arts. 
The Society of Natural Hiftory at Paris, has given itfelf a 
new organization. In future it will affemble only once a 
amonth; but it has chofen an adminiftration who will meet 
once every fortnight. This adminiftration confifts of fix com= 
-miffioners, Jufiieu, Lamarck, Hauy, Fourcroy, Desfontaineand 
Lacepede, who have chofen fix affiftants: Ventinat, Brogni- 
ard, Leliere, Vauquelin, Celfe and Millin. Cit, Sylveftre has 
been appointed treafurer, and Cit. Cuvier fecretary, The 
reftof the Society is divided mto two fections: one of mem- 
‘bers, ‘each of whom engages to read a ‘memoir annually; 
and the other of free affociates, who are not obliged to per- 
“form any-labour. The Society have publithed a volume of 
Memoirs in folio, under the title of Ade de ta faciété d'bif- 
*towe naturelle) and has ereccted’a ftatue of Linneus in ibe 
: —— garden of plants. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
“pRESENT STATE OF CHEMISTRY IN GERMANY. | 
“As we have frequent occafion, in the courfe of this Maga- 
zine, to mention or make extracts from the works of differ- 
oent chemifts on the Continent, and as they have not yet all 
_ entirely: ‘abandoned the old fy ftem, our chemical readers, we 
hope, 
