"Learned Societies. 705 



monies, bad a {hare in their myfteries, and was made the 

 reward of valour, merit and virtue. Its medical properties 

 were not forgotten. In fpeaking of the laurel-cherry, {primus 

 lauro-cerafus, L.) C. Vvillemet gave an account of the 

 m'idcrn experiments made on the effects of the water diftilled 

 from it. He took a view alfo of the qualities and virtues of 

 the common rofe-bay or oleander (nertunt oleander, L.); the 



! (riifcus hypoglojfum, L.) ; and the laurcftine (f ibur~ 



fium linus, L.) 



ITALY. 



The National Inftitute of the Ligurian Republic was in-. 

 Hailed on the 24th of Brumaire, 7th year, by the directory 

 of that republic. It confifts of fixty members, thirty-fix of 

 whom are refident; and thirty-fix affociates, inhabitants of 

 the republic. They form two claffes, each of which is fub- 

 divided into three fections. 



The firft clafs is that of the Mathematical and Phyfical 

 Sciences; the three feclions of which are: ift, Agriculture, 

 commerce and manufactures ; 2d, The nautical fcience, 

 mathematics, phyfics and natural hiftory; 3d, Chemiftry, 

 botanv, anatomy, medicine and furgery. 



1 he fecond clafs comprehends Philofophy, Literature, and 

 the Fine Arts. Its fe&ions are as follows: ift, The art of 

 reafoning; and analyfis of the operations of the human un- 

 derftanding, grammar, eloquence and poetry 3 2d, Political 

 feiences, hiftory and antiquities ; 3d, The art of defign, 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Since our laft report, (Vol. II. p. 327) Papers on the 

 following fubje&s have been read to the Society. 



One on the methods of finding the latitude by double 

 observations, which contained fcveral curious calculations 

 and ufeful tables. This paper, which occupied almofi the 

 whole of two evenings, is of luch a nature that our limits; 

 will uot allow our giving any account of it. 



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