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2096 Intelligence, and Mifcellaneous Articles. - 
portant than thofe before related by me, that deferve, I think, 
to be recorded; and daily experience, in a large public chari- 
ty*, where the airs are adminiftered under my direction, would 
afford me other frequent opportunities ; but according to my 
promife, mentioned in my firft communication, I was to con- 
tinue writing on this fabjeCvonly until the eftablithment of 
the Pneumatic Inftitution under Dr. Beddoes, which I am 
happy to announce, and that fhortly the public may expect 
a periodical quarterly publication, relating chiefly to this im- 
portant inyeftigation, from the mafterly pen of that eminent 
phyfician. 
INTELLIGENCE, 
AND 
‘MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. 
LEARNED SOCIETIES, 
GERMANY. 
Tue Ele&toral Academy of Sciences at Manheim has 
propofed the following queftion as the fubject of a prize for 
the year 1801 :— 
«© Are the azotic (flick) gafes, which are produced from fo 
many totally difimilar fubliances, and in.ways {fo different, 
exactly the fame in all their chemical properties and bafes 
(imple azotic gafes,) with that of the atmofphere? and has 
the nitrous acid the fame azote for its acidilying bafe, as the 
atmofpherie azotic gas? 
«¢ The partizans of the antiphlogiftic doétrine feem to 
admit both, but without fatisfactory proof. 1, Since, for 
want of fuficiently accurate examination, they admit ig — 
each of thefe wafes all the known properties of azotic gas, 
becaufe they deftroy animal life, extinguith flarse, and ma-~ 
-pifeft no acid properties: but, 2, after all their analytic and 
* The Mary-le-bone General Difpenfary. 
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