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for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Com~ 
merce. The affiduity and ability with which he difcharged 
the duties of the office he held, for that refpectable Inftitation, 
will make it difficult to find another to fill it who may be as 
well qualified. 
A few weeks ago, at New-York, Dr. Perkins, inventor of 
the metallic traCtors. He had gone thither, from his ufual 
place of refidence in Connecticut, to affift his brother prac- 
titioners in endeavouring to arreft the progrefs of the yellow 
fever, with which that city has been again vifited, and eaught 
the infection, which carried him off. 
In the Philofophical Magazine for April laft we armounced 
the death of that celebr ated naturalift Spallanzani on the 11th 
of February. It appears, however, that he died on the r7ths 
and, as every thing that relates to the laft moments of emi- 
nent men is interefting, we hope our readers will not be dif- . 
pleafed with us for adding the following particulars :—On the 
evening of the roth he was feized with an apoplectie fit, the 
confequence of a neglected ftrangury. Profeflors Brera and 
Scarpa, who were called im to vifit him, immediately faw that» 
all medical aid would be ufelefs; for, on infpeéting his urine, 
it was found that the bladder was ina flate of gangrene. 
‘They however ordered him fuch medicimes and treatment as 
they thought could be of any feryice. On the 12th the af- 
feétion in the left arm and the lips difappeared. On the 13th 
he recovered the full ufe of his fenfes ; found himfelf much 
betier; and, without apprehending death, attended to his 
literary and domeftic concerns. Early on the morning of 
the 17th he was attacked by a general debility, accompanied 
with a diarrhoea entirely enblicnaiitives The two profeffors 
then told him, that this day would be the laft of his life; an 
information which Spallanzani received with the greateft 
firmnefs of mind. Towards noon he embraced his friends, 
the two profeffors, and particularly his brother, who had 
come exprefs to Pavia from Scandiano, in the duchy of Mo- 
dena; took the moft affeGtionate leave of them, and exactly 
at 11 o’clock breathed his laft in their arms, The opinion - 
of the phyficians refpe€ting his difeafe was confirmed by the 
opening of his hody, A hiftory of it has been published by 
Profefloy 
